Carbohydrate and alcohol content of 200 oral liquid medications for use in patients receiving ketogenic diets

Pediatrics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 506-511

  Feldstein, Thomas J ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Children's Health Care Minneapolis ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; carbohydrate; ketogenic diet; medication; sorbitol; sugar free

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPRAZOLAM; ALPRAZOLAM INTENSOL; ALUMINUM MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; AMANTADINE; AMINOCAPROIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; BROMPHENIRAMINE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM GLUBIONATE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFACLOR; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFPROZIL; CEFRADINE; CEFUROXIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CHLOROTHIAZIDE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CIMETIDINE; CISAPRIDE; CLEMASTINE FUMARATE; CODYDRAMOL; PARACETAMOL; SALBUTAMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SAFETY; KETOGENESIS; LOW CALORY DIET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CAPSULES; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; ETHANOL; FOOD, FORMULATED; FRUCTOSE; GLYCEROL; HUMANS; KETOSIS; LACTULOSE; SEIZURES; SOLUTIONS; SORBITOL; SUCROSE; TABLETS;

EID: 0029969598     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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