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Keto diet + young kids

On August 2018, Quinn was on the Keto diet for about 6 months to see if it could improve her seizures. If restricting a little human from indulging in her favorite pasta and all things delicious and carbie sounds like a nightmare to you, your feelings are warranted. However, it is not as disastrous as I had imagined. Here are some tips and tricks we learned in that keto chapter. I’ve even included an easy-cleanup Keto whipped cream recipe at the end that my cubs LOVE to this day! If you have cubs you need to fatten up, don’t miss the recipe!

August 2018
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Parent hack: Getting young kids to take medicine

Quinn does not take medication very well. She’s rare. None of the parents in my epilepsy support group have this problem. NONE! Our neurologist also has the same experience with her patients. Her kids typically take their meds just fine. So we are pretty much left on our own to figure this part out. And we are still figuring it out but perhaps some of our lessons may be of helpful to you.

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Prepping meds

Our daily prepping tools

After 4+ years of managing Quinn’s medications, we’ve got a system that has worked well for our family. In the early years, Quinn’s seizure medication would change every other week so we were constantly titrating (building up or weaning down) medication. We must have went through five different medications the first year. It was a rollercoaster journey because we would slowly build up the medication only to discover a bad side effect and have to slowly bring down the medication. Seizure medication needs to be slowly weaned from the system or it could result with more seizures. On top of that, most of time the medication did very little, if nothing, to control her seizures.

Our system is not perfect and it is constantly evolving as we discover new products or tricks. Hopefully, this will inspire you to develop a system that works for your family.

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