Is the diet more successful if a person monitors their GKI or just their ketones?
Thanks
JAVickers, MD
UNM Hosiptal
Albuquerque, NM
Dear Jennifer,
Unfortunately we do not know much about GKI in KDT.
Most clinics/physicians advise to monitor ketones at home and sometimes together with glucose
As effectivness of KDT does not depend on how high ketosis is , ketones remain the mainstay for measuring.
Some Glut-1 families observe that they need a specific level of BHB for concentration/ certain activities, but this is also ketones.
Hope to have helped with my answer.
Best wishes
Anastasia Dressler
Anastasia Dressler, Associate Professor, PD, MD
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine/Division of Neonatology, Intensive Care and Neuropediatrics, Medical University Vienna, Austria