Q My friend’s 11-year-old daughter has epilepsy and still has seizures even though she is taking medication. She is trying to find out about effective holistic therapies for her. Can you help?
S.P., via email
A Some 65 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy—a disorder of brain electrical activity that causes recurrent seizures. The usual treatment is antiepileptic drugs (also called anticonvulsants), but around 30 percent of sufferers continue to have seizures despite being on medication—what’s known as drug-resistant epilepsy or refractory epilepsy.
There’s also the problem of serious side-effects, which include allergies, depression, memory loss, osteoporosis and aplastic anemia. The good news is that there are a number of complementary and alternative therapies proving to be effective for drug-resistant epilepsy, especially dietary treatments. Your
