Join Matthew’s Friends and help raise awareness of epilepsy this Purple Day! Our #purpleavocado campaign celebrates the delicious and nutritious, high fat, low carb, avocado as a fantastic ingredient for a Ketogenic diet. Our charity supports children and adults who have complex, drug-resistant epilepsy. Ketogenic Dietary Therapies can help many reduce their seizures, or even [...]
Click on the link below for all the latest news relating to the annual KetoCollege taking place between the 19th – 21st June 2018 and also the 2nd Annual European Conference on Glut1 Deficiency which is scheduled to take place between the 22nd - 23rd June 2018. There is also important information regarding available bursaries [...]
Greg in London Marathon training mode! We’re all so proud of Greg, he has autism, has suffered endless seizures throughout his childhood and has now taken on a challenge, we and his family and of course Greg, would never have dreamed of. Our first, ever, epilepsy patient, treated with Ketogenic Diet therapy, running [...]
Further to the recent publicity around the problems associated with the use of some Anti-Epileptic Drugs (AED’s) during pregnancy, there has been a dramatic increase in interest and requests for using Ketogenic Dietary Therapy (KDT) as an alternative treatment to AED’s for those women with epilepsy who are pregnant or whom are trying to get [...]
It has been another hectic year at Matthew’s Friends as we continue our work with medical Ketogenic Dietary Therapies. As always, our priority has been to support those families and individuals living with complex epilepsies and epilepsy syndromes, Glut 1 Deficiency, Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Brain Cancer. We have supplied free starter packs as well [...]
Step back in time on this epic charity challenge! This most ancient of charity treks takes us from Lanercost Priory to Brocolitia, encompassing some of the most visited and fascinating ruins. Hadrian’s Wall was built in AD122 on the orders of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and stretched from the East to West coasts of Britain, from Bowness [...]
Matthew’s Friends Ketogenic Dietary Therapies Autumn 2017 edition is now available to read online. To read the newsletter, please go to the Newsletters section, or click here. For enquiries regarding future Newsletter content, please contact emmamatthewsfriends.org.
Join us in raising awareness of medical ketogenic dietary therapies, where children and adults are sugar-free every day. Sugar Free for Epilepsy month – November 2018. Join our new campaign to raise awareness of Ketogenic Dietary Therapies for epilepsy and Go Sugar Free For Epilepsy in November! For more information about this fantastic new initiative, [...]
The medical ketogenic diet is now a potential treatment option for Irish patients with epilepsy which has not responded to other treatments. This national service has recently been established, supported by Matthew’s Friends Charity, in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, led by Dr Colin Doherty, Consultant Neurologist and Laura Healy, Specialist Dietitian. From studies in adults, [...]
ITV West Country News highlight the fantastic ketogenic service at Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital. A service awaiting new referrals for drug resistant children with epilepsy. Please check out the video below to see what they had to say.
