Re: [IPk] Re: ip-uk-digest V4 #377 ketones

[Diana Maynard <email @ redacted>]

Hi Danni
I think you miss my point. My point was not that you shouldn't find 
yourself in that situation. And it's not that you shouldn't follow any 
rules. It's that I still don't see that there's anything different you 
need to do in that situation that you wouldn't do for moderately high 
BGs. I don't believe there's some magic point above which my body starts 
behaving totally differently - things just get more severe as the BG 
increases and as ketones develop, and thus you need gradually more 
aggressive treatment as you go up the scale of high BGs and ketones. I'm 
not dismissing the importance of treating DKA (or any high BG) fast and 
taking it seriously.
Does that make more sense?
Di

On 01/05/12 10:36, email @ redacted wrote:
 > Yea I'm with you there Di... But if you get into the position where you're in
 > DKA with ketones for whatever reason then there are procedures to deal with
it.
> How one gets to that position is irrelevant... Like if you have a severe hypo
> there is a procedure to deal with it. If you skid on ice in a car there's a
> procedure to deal with it. I don't live by a set of 'rules' (for my son)
 > either..., he does everything he wants to do, eats what he wants etc..he
never
> gets ketones and hasn't been in DKA but I know that that could happen at any
 > time for whatever reason and when it does I would follow procedure for that.
I
> feel that by following 'procedures' for living with D, eg adjusting basals,
 > ratios, ISF, adjusting for sport etc etc then I am doing what is required.
Same
> as for if he was ill, for example, he gets ketones etc, I would follow a
> procedure for dealing with it.
>
> Danni
> Sent using BlackBerry. from Orange
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