| Gender/Age of Patient | Reasons for Using Ketogenic Diet | Duration on Ketogenic Diet | Serum Selenium Level at Time of Symptom Presentation |
Symptoms/Diagnostic Finding that Prompted Selenium Analysis | Form of Selenium Treatment | Length of Selenium Treatment that Resolves Symptoms | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M/5 years | Intractable seizures | 2.5 months | <25 μg/L (normal >60 μg/L) |
Tachycardia, hypotension, cool extremities, poor skin perfusion | Intravenous | 10 days | [68] |
| M/11 years old | Afebrile partial complex seizures | 3 years | 31.6 μg/L (normal 79-158 μg/L) |
No pulse, cardiogenic shock, QT prolongation | None | Patient deceased | [67] |
| M/7 years old | Intractable epilepsy | 3 years | 55.2 μg/L (normal 79-158μg/L) |
QT prolongation | None | Patient deceased | [67] |
| F/13 years old | Intractable complex partial seizures | 4 years | “non-detectable” | Pale coloring, whitened nail beds and poor hair texture | 200μg/day, I.V. 80μg/day, oral |
1 month of I.V then switched to oral (length of oral not reported) | [65] |