Diabetic Ketoacidosis
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough - Dana Hill
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The Scary Experience Of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Allow me to pause today to share with you the down and dirty of what it feels like to have something that is not the slightest bit humorous: diabetic ketoacidosis.You are hot. You are freezing. You are confused. You are blacked out but coherent. You go to talk but words fail you. Time flies and goes in slow motion simultaneously. You will likely smell and look like death. In my instance, this was brought on by the combination of excessive vomiting and dehydration caused by food poisoning and the diabetic ketoacidosis that followed after my body had gone through so much.
In hindsight, I was lucky, my husband knew that I had food poisoning because I began vomiting after our meal.…
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How DKA Scared Me Into Shape
Maybe I believed diabetic ketoacidosis was just a Mary Poppins name for a complication I didn’t expect to have. Maybe I didn’t even really believe I’d been diagnosed with another chronic disease, another crappy continuation to my barely functioning body of bad luck.
The One Drop Guide to DKA
DKA. Not to be confused with the DKA (short for Dominique's Kouign Amann) pastry, which is a bomb of deliciousness. The two DKAs have no direct correlation. But, oddly enough, diabetes DKA could definitely ensue if a person with diabetes were to eat the DKA pastry and not have the proper insulin reinforcements.
This Is The Shocking Cost Of Type 1 Diabetes
I had to ration the little insulin I had left because I couldn’t afford it and went into DKA [diabetic ketoacidosis - a painful and life-threatening complication] three times.
Current concepts and controversies in prevention and treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis in children
The prevention of DKA at diagnosis of diabetes can be achieved by an intensive community intervention and education of health care providers to raise awareness. Prevention of recurrent DKA requires continuous patient education and access to diabetes programs and telephone services.
The Scary Experience Of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Allow me to pause today to share with you the down and dirty of what it feels like to have something that is not the slightest bit humorous: diabetic ketoacidosis.You are hot. You are freezing. You are confused.
Diabetes.org
DKA usually develops slowly. But when vomiting occurs, this life-threatening condition can develop in a few hours.
Anaesthetist.com
People still die from diabetic ketoacidosis. Poor patient education is probably the most important determinant of the incidence of the catastrophe that constitutes "DKA". In several series, only about a fifth of patients with DKA are first-time presenters with recently acquired Type I diabetes mellitus. The remainder are recognised diabetics who are either noncompliant with insulin therapy, or have serious underlying illess that precipitates DKA.
MedlinePlus
DKA is sometimes the first sign of type 1 diabetes in people who have not yet been diagnosed. It can also occur in someone who has already been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Infection, injury, a serious illness, missing doses of insulin shots, or surgery can lead to DKA in people with type 1 diabetes.
American Family Physician
A diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis requires the patient’s plasma glucose concentration to be above 250 mg per dL (although it usually is much higher), the pH level to be less than 7.30, and the bicarbonate level to be 18 mEq per L or less. Beta-hydroxybutyrate is a better measurement of the degree of ketosis than serum ketones.
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