Precision Ketogenic Therapy (PKT) is a dietary therapy to reduce seizures. Carbohydrates are reduced and the calories are replaced with fat. PKT is frequently used when other therapies for epilepsies such as medications have failed. PKT requires a very precise and personalized dietary prescription. It involves a significant amount of work on the part of the caregivers.
The positive effect of fasting on seizures has been documented for centuries in the writings of many cultures. In 1921, the ketogenic diet was first used medically to treat seizures. In the 1990s, the ketogenic diet for seizures had a resurgence of use in the clinical setting. Another use of a keto diet that has recently become popular is for weight loss and improvement of athletic performance.
If today there are several versions of the 1921 diet and of the weight loss diets that have been modified to treat seizures, then why was Precision Ketogenic Therapy created?
[/info_list_item][info_list_item list_title=”Questions Stemming from Common Misconceptions” list_icon=”Defaults-question”]● Are PKT meals unpalatable, boring, and restrictive?
● Can patients be on PKT and get all the nutrients they need?
● Will patients lose weight because it is a keto diet or gain weight because of all the fat they eat?
● What happens when patients must go off therapy after 2-3 years?
● My adult patients would not benefit from the therapy, correct?
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You may want to create your own PKT Program at your facility, we are here to assist and collaborate with you to make your implementation of PKT a success. We have created PKT resources or refined the resources of others to ensure the best possible care of patients on PKT. These tools allow us to provide personalized diets for the patients based on the nutrient composition of foods. These resources include:
● Nutrition needs calculator
● Meal equivalent (recipe) calculators
● Foodomics database
● Seizure quantitation calculators
● Antiseizure medication calculators
Patient acceptance of PKT meals is essential for the patient to stay compliant. Personalized cookbooks are a critical tool for patient success.
The correct PKT diet prescription is the key to having a thriving patient in good nutritional status. The incorrect PKT diet prescription could lead to nutrient deficiencies and accompanying symptoms that require stopping the diet after 2-3 years to recover.
Food is medicine. Our diet prescription calculators assist caregivers and providers in administering the precise prescription to your patients that they need to thrive.
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PKT recipes can be made as fun and flavorful as you want. We have the formulas you need to create personalized PKT recipes with the foods your patient enjoys.
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Our Foodomics Database is the foundation of PKT, it contains a detailed nutrient composition of commonly used foods in the grocery store. We are continuously refining the information and uploading updates. We provide this valuable tool on this website for anyone to use.
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Checklists prevent errors, assign responsibility for each task, and document who did what. We have provided some example checklists to help you create your own.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are a crucial step in the quality control of patient care. We have provided our PKT SOPs as samples to help you develop your own.
Templates are used for data collection, data documentation, and data wrangling. We are happy to share our PKT templates with you.
Education materials are needed by patients, families, healthcare colleagues, and PKT researchers to optimize PKT care. We all need to share what we have so that it can be improved.
