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This is not correct. When someone with type 1 has an illness they can develop ketones while their glucose appears stable within range. This is can lead to death
by sjhatfield 22d ago
This is not correct. When someone with type 1 has an illness they can develop ketones while their glucose appears stable within range. This is can lead to death.
About once a year, when my son is sick, we need to monitor his ketones with finger pokes. When he has a stomach bug and can't eat, we have had to go to the hospital for a drip to allow us to give insulin and lower his ketone level. Having ketones on the CGM with glucose would have been very helpful.
- umvi 21d agoThat seems like an extremely rare condition (source: I'm also a T1D and never encountered that when sick). I presume you are referring to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554570/
- sjhatfield 20d agoWhen a young child with type 1 is sick and not eating or is vomiting, they are getting almost no insulin. My son's basal can be as low as 0.1U an hour. It's in these cases, where he has developed high ketones with glucose level around 90 mgdl.