Early Days

In Mid June 2007, Sarah our third daughter then aged 6, was diagnosed with Doose Syndrome or MAE epilepsy this is a particular difficult brand of epilepsy in that it features various types of epileptic attacks and finding the right anti-epileptic drugs and the dosage can be very much a trial and error process. 

With the great help of the charity MatthewFriends from July 2007 Sarah was on the ketogenic diet/treatment, a high fat and very low carbohydrate diet of food. It simulates fasting in the body and induces ketosis which is the best treatment for her acute epileptic syndrome. 

Through out this difficult period, being seeing amazing answers to prayer.  In particular the answer to prayer that Sarah has been able to start the diet under the care of Raigmore, Inverness and so soon.  She will be the first child in the Highlands to receive the diet.   

The diet is not guaranteed to be a success, but it has helped many others with this difficult to treat epilepsy, e.g. it reduces the level and types of the seizures,

Give thanks to God that we have been very much blessed thorough this time,with many answers to prayers and we give God the glory for His goodness to us through it all.

See the website www.matthewsfriends.org for more on the Ketogenic diet.  Emma Williams of ths charity has been an absolute star.