Not all precision medicines come in pill form. For some children, like 18-month-old Lucia, has been that precision medicine.Before she started the medical ketogenic diet, a then-2-month-old Lucia would have several seizures per week that could last as long as five minutes each and weren’t helped by antiseizure medications. After discovering the rare genetic mutation behind Lucia’s epilepsy, her parents, Rebecca and Gloria, took her to CHLA’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center for specialty treatment.
