Keto Diet Clinic

Has your child’s neurologist recommended the ketogenic diet to help manage their epilepsy or another condition? Gillette Children’s Ketogenic Diet Clinic is here for you. 

Why Choose Gillette Children's Keto Diet Clinic

The Keto Diet Clinic at Gillette Children's provides care for patients beginning their ketogenic diet journey, as well as those who need ongoing medical monitoring and support to maintain the diet. A multidisciplinary team of expert physicians, advanced practice providers, dietitians, and pharmacists work with you to tailor an individualized ketogenic diet plan that meets your child's needs.

The Ketogenic Diet Clinic sees patients up to age 18 for initial assessment, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of the medical ketogenic diet used to manage epilepsy, seizures, and other metabolic and neurological conditions.

A referral is needed to see our Ketogenic Diet Clinic providers. Patients can seek a referral to the keto clinic from their primary care provider, neurologist, or geneticist.

Conditions often managed through the Keto Diet Clinic include:

• Glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome
• Pyruvate hydrogenase deficiency
• Infantile spasms
• Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
• Epilepsy with myoclonic-astatic seizures (Doose syndrome)
• Dravet syndrome
• Tuberous sclerosis complex
• Angelman syndrome
• Rett syndrome
• Certain mitochondrial disorders
• Landau-Kleffner syndrome
• Seizures not controlled by medication

The Keto Diet Clinic at Gillette Children’s is a resource for patients and their families who need medical supervision to begin and continue a ketogenic diet for disease management.

From the initial hospitalization that allows your child to begin the keto diet under close medical supervision to ongoing family education about nutrition and keto-safe medicines, our experts in pediatric neurology, complex care, pharmacy, nutrition services, and nursing are here to support your family as you and your child adjust to this new way of eating.