What is diabetic ketoacidosis and is it serious?
Diabetes, abnormal glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose sugar, don't know what that means, but all these miscellaneous names tell us that blood sugar is abnormal! It needs to be treated!
The urine of diabetics is indeed sweet, at least most of them are before treatment, which is where the name diabetes comes from. Diabetes is very gentle on people, very much like boiling a frog in warm water, without realizing that it is already in the advanced stages of diabetes, some people have numbness in their hands and feet, skin pain, abnormal sensations, and even amputation of toes and limbs, which is a chronic complication of diabetes, which comes slowly and horribly.
What are the acute complications of diabetes, today for everyone to popularize the second means of combat of diabetes, as the saying goes, know your enemy and know yourself, lightning tactics - diabetic ketoacidosis! Acute, a real emergency, the kind that requires a trip to the emergency department.
Diabetic ketoacidosis often starts rapidly, headache, dizziness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, thirst and desire to drink, chest tightness, palpitations, chills and fever and other different manifestations, the patient manifests dehydration, often combined with infections, and need timely treatment, otherwise persistent dehydration, electrolyte disorders, infections, hyperglycemia, can cause coma, and even life-threatening!
Diabetic ketoacidosis, what one can do is to seek medical attention in time, as well as drinking more light saline water to replace the loss of water, delay the rapid aggravation of the condition, as soon as possible to seek medical treatment, eliminate the causative factors, adequate fluid rehydration, and good control of blood glucose.
Diabetic ketoacidosis is not a diabetic patients need to know, but also need to avoid, to do usually control the blood glucose up to the standard, to avoid cold and flu, pneumonia and other infectious diseases, if the above symptoms occur, as soon as possible to seek medical treatment do not delay treatment!
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