About Matthew’s Friends Clinics
The Matthew’s Friends clinics for Ketogenic Dietary Therapies (KDT) was established in 2011 and offers medically supervised dietary therapies for adults and children (over the age of 1 year). We provide an experienced team of neurologists, dietitians and ketogenic assistants and we specialise exclusively in Ketogenic Dietary Therapies which means we are always up to date with the latest developments and can provide a very detailed and supportive service to each of our patients. Our aim is always to achieve the very best outcome possible and we work alongside the patients own local medical team. Patients do not have to change medical teams.
Although the number of ketogenic centres has increased for children over the past few years, especially since the publication of the Great Ormond Street Clinical trial in 2008 proving the efficacy of ketogenic therapy in children with epilepsy, there is still nowhere near enough provision and for adults the situation is even worse. We will always recommend that any patient be referred to the nearest centre to them in the first instance and where there is no local centre or there are long waiting lists, children and adults can be referred to us.
Our clinic treats both adults and children with drug resistant epilepsy and Glut 1 Deficiency Syndrome.
