Overly ketotic? Sleepy baby...

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My daughter's been on the ketogenic diet for over a month. In the beginning,

we couldn't get her to have consistant ketones, and she was sleeping all the

time. She was still having seizures, and we went up from a 3:1 ratio to a

3.5:1 ratio, with still no changes. After reading some posts about Depakote

interfering with the diet, we started a new med and started weaning the

Depakote. Her ketones, almost magically became higher, she had tons of

energy and her seizures stopped the very next day (she's been seizure free

14 days, don't know if it's the high ketones or the new med, though.)

She's lost over a pound since she started the diet, and continues to lose a

couple of ounces a week. Now, her ketones are ALWAYS in the large range,

and in the last few days she's been sleeping a lot again.

Her Depakote is now down to 100mg per day (it was a whopping 500mg per

day before we weaned). Do you think the sleepiness could be caused by too

high a ratio? Maybe she needs more calories?

Thanks for any insight you can give me!

(Mom to Daphne -- 9 months old, dx with infantile spasms at 3 months)