ketoacidosis

In type 1 diabetes lack of insulin can lead to a condition called diabetic ketoacidosis which is deadly.

When diabetics are diagnosed with ketoacidosis, they typically are promptly hospitalized because it can kill you within three days.

Ketosis is understood broadly as a disorder along a spectrum leading to ketoacidosis, and real doctors worry about treatment.

There's also the ketoacidosis problem, which is even harder to avoid while being on keto and being a T1 diabetic.

Whether they eat carbs or not, T1 diabetic patients need insulin or they will go into diabetic ketoacidosis and die.

Second - uncontrolled high blood sugars can lead to diabetic ketoacidosis which can be fatal.

To die you'd have to end up with ketoacidosis - there are ways to notice.

Because insulin necessarily lowers glucose in addition to suppressing ketoacidosis, T1 patients need carbs.

Don't forget the two big hyperglycemic emergencies: diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state.

I've been on CGM (Libre/Dexcom) and it's impossible to get high enough values unnoticed to end up with ketoacidosis for me.

Additionally; if a diabetic goes into diabetic ketoacidosis and pulls through they become at a much greater risk of having this happen again in the future.

Their production occurs in healthy individuals as nutritional ketosis under a carbohydrate restricted diet (typically less than 100g/day) or in diabetics as the pathological condition ketoacidosis.

The doctor said "Oh, you were probably just dehydrated, don't worry about it, you don't have diabetic ketoacidosis" and the conversation moved on and soon concluded.

I'm not in eminent danger of collapsing and dying as far as I know, but it's just that going through the experience I did (I developed something called DKA or "Diabetic Ketoacidosis" which is a life threatening condition, hence the hospital stay) has made me much more aware of the inevitable decline in health and fitness as I age.

When I was reading about what that meant I discovered it's a marker for diabetic ketoacidosis (a severe problem for ~100k people a year) and it can also be indicator for colorectal cancer as well as indicating a "ketosis" state that some people intentionally try to enter for dieting or wellness reasons.

The urinalysis (which was combined with a blood test) said something like "ketones +3" and if you google "urine ketones +3" you get a explanations that don't apply to me (alcohol, vigorous exercise, intentional dieting) or "diabetic ketoacidosis" which google warns you is a serious health condition.

Ketoacidosis is extremely dangerous for diabetics, but it occurs in cases of extreme high blood sugar, not low blood sugar.

Eating carbohydrates cannot cause Diabetic Ketoacidosis.

Ketoacidosis is caused by not having enough insulin which means glucose can't exit your bloodstream and enter your cells, Your body starts breaking down fat into ketones to provide an energy pathway for your cells that doesn't require insulin.