Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse explains what Diabetic Ketoacidosis is. She explains it is not very common but can happen in people with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. She describes situations where people might develop this when they're unwell. The condition can make you feel very sick and cause belly pain, cramps in legs and belly.
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Diabetic people, as you know, it can happen in type 1 and in type 2 diabetes both. So when people are unwell, they are sick, they got a flu or they miss their insulin, especially type 1 diabetes. they have not had insulin for some people even 24 hours, some people if they have not given for two days so they can develop they can develop diabetic ketoacidosis. So what happens is the insulin transports the glucose to our body cells. When we don't have insulin in our body, body thinks we don't have glucose. It will start using our fat for energy use and when the body start using fat for energy use from that process, ketones get produced. So when people have ketones, their blood become acidotic and they can become unwell, they can collapse, they can go in coma as well. And the symptoms here are they get severe abdominal pain, feeling sick and they start getting vomiting, they get cramps in their calves, in their tummy, and then that can become serious. So it can happen in type 2 diabetes what we come across is if they have not had their treatment for a long time or if they are sick now and some patients are ketone prone, type 2 diabetes are ketone prone as well. So it does not happen that much but it can happen in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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