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Symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, rapid breathing, extreme lethargy, and drowsiness. Patients with ketoacidosis will also have a sweet breath odor. Left untreated, this condition can lead to coma and death
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What are the dangers of Ketoacidosis?
Diabetic ketoacidosis is caused by lack of insulin, and is generally triggered by some other body insult including dehydration, fasting, illness or infection. Once ketoacidosis begins in earnest, it causes itself to get worse. All of its symptoms are also causes of further problems, so it will generally continue to advance until treatment or death. More details on the mechanism of how ketoacidosis begins are available on the wikipedia link below. Ketoacidosis is often associated with hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), but hyperglycemia won't actually cause Ketoacidosis. They are both caused by shortage of insulin.
What untreated disease leave individual at risk for developing ketoacidosis?
If hyperglycemia is left untreated, it can lead to ketoacidosis.
What are common diabetic ketoacidosis symptoms?
high blood sugar levels frequent urination (polyuria) and thirst fatigue and lethargy nausea vomiting abdominal pain fruity odor to breath
What disease associated with ketoacidosis?
Diabetes
What do the signs of diabetic ketoacidosis appear as?
One of the first signs of ketoacidosis is an unpleasant smell on the breath as well as ketones in the urine, if your insulin is kept at the correct level and you eat a sensible and balanced diet including slow release carbohydrates you should not go into ketoacidosis.
Where can I find more information on diabetic ketoacidosis?
I would suggest taking a look at the American diabetes association website at diabetes.org, they have a comprehensive guide to diabetes and its complications including Ketoacidosis, this can be a severe complication and needs to be monitored. There are also sites such as WebMD that offer good simple guides of the signs and symptoms of such conditions. Good luck and I hope that you can keep y our condition stable so that problems such as this do not arise.
Can you be hospitalized for diabetics?
When you have to be hospitalized for diabetes you are in ketoacidosis, which is when your blood sugar is very high. If you are in really bad ketoacidosis then you may be in a coma.
Where can I find information about diabetic ketoacidosis?
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a condition which is thought to affect about 1 in 750 people in their lifetime. More information can be obtained from reputable medical journals or a doctor.
Which condition may progress to diabetic ketoacidosis?
Diabetes, if untreated.
Ketoacidosis associated with diabetes mellitus is likely to produce what acid imbalance?
Ketone production in diabetes causes a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis, which is a form of elevated anion gap metabolic acidosis.
What is the acid -base status of an individual with ketoacidosis?
Uncompensated Respiratory Acidosis
What type of diabetes would one have if there was excess glucose in urine?
ketoacidosis
