What causes the acetone breath seen in type 1 diabetes?

Answer 1

this kid had same problem hope this helps You are well read!!!

Well ketones are the product of breakdown of the body's fat stores, they occur during times of stressAcute respiratory distress syndrome

Broken bone

Exercise stress test

Fetal heart monitoring

Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Stress and anxiety

Stress echocardiography

Stress formula with iron

Stress gastritis

Stress incontinence, illness or insulinFood and insulin release

Hypoglycemia

Insulin aspart

Insulin aspart-insulin aspart protamine

Insulin c-peptide

Insulin detemir

Insulin glargine

Insulin glulisine

Insulin inhalation, rapid acting

Insulin isophane

Insulin isophane-insulin regulardeficiency or when we are on a crazy Atkins dietAge-appropriate diet for children

Alcohol and diet

Balanced diet

Cholesterol and diet

Chromium in diet

Dash diet

Diabetes diet

Diarrhea in children - diet

Diet - calories

Diet - cancer treatment

Diet and diseasewith no carbs and our poor body struggles to make energy!

Your daughter had a classic episode of a febrileFebrile seizures

Febrile/cold agglutininsillness with vomitingHyperemesis gravidarum

Morning sickness

Nausea and vomiting

Vomiting bloodand probably little intake of adequate fluids for her acutely increased needs. So without the low sugar part or passing out etc etc. she sounds to be completely normal.

If she is having episodes of not withstanding prolonged periods of fastingFasting glucose tolerance test

Glucose test - bloodwithout illness then I would definitely talk with her pediatrician, but meanwhile remember her tendency and when she is ill get on rehydration immediatlely with the use of gatorade, popsicles or whatever sugar or electrolyte containing fluids you can provide her with(in small quantities or she will vomit!!!)

You are NOT an idiot, quite observant. Do not test her though or you will go

Answer 2

In Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 (DM1), since pancreatic beta cells are unable to produce insulin, glucose (G) cannot cross cell membranes (where it is required for cellular metabolism). As a result, the cells are starving, which triggers several events: 1) the release of G from the liver (via gluconeogenesis), 2) protein breakdown, and 3) fat (adipose tissue) breakdown. The latter results in a release of free fatty acids which the liver converts to ketone bodies which appear in the urine and the blood. These ketone bodies are excreted in the lungs as an acetone and smell fruity, like pear drops (whose scent is a ketone). Ketones are also acidic and cause the acidosis condition which drives Kussmaul breathing (deep hyperventilation from a drive to "blow off" excess CO2 in the blood).