When you are diabetic and you check your sugar and it sayd you have Ketones, what are Ketones?

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Ketones are by products of fat breakdown. This normally occurs when you have depleted you stored sugar (glycogen) in your liver and muscles. The fat is only broken down to produce energy molecules (ATP), it does get changed into sugar (well, almost none). To maintain your sugar in your blood your body converts protein back to glucose (sugar). This is an mandatory chemical pathway; your brain only operates on maintaining a sugar level in the blood (to much insulin drives sugar into your cells and drops your blood sugar and you become unconscious). Now, if you are diabetic, ketones can have another meaning: the glucose (sugar) is not getting into your cells (requires insulin to do this) and your body is starving even thought you have ample sugar in your blood. This is a bad thing; in this setting your sugar becomes high. A high blood sugar draws water from your cells and you urinate it out-- an important symptom: frequent urination. The increasing ketones help cause a acid level in your blood--- also a bad thing. Together this can lead to Diabetic ketoacidosis and death.

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ketones spill in your blood when your body is using fat to burn energy. this usually happens because you don't have enough insulin for your body to use sugar instead. ketones in your blood is a bad sign. you need to talk to your doctor or follow the instructions you were given on taking your insulin.

Ketones are a sweet smelling product that is produced with the improper digestion of sugars. It does indicate that you are diabetic and the kidneys are over working removing these from the blood.Are you eating too many sweets? is your insulin correct?

ketones are products of increased lipolysis that occur in insulin deficient diabetics.usually occurs in type 1 diabetics because there is deficiency of insulin.this leads to increased lipolysis and increased fatty acid levels.which reroute to ketone pathway leading to ketosis.it may also occur while fasting or due to alcohol in normal people.
does not occur in type 2 diabetics because there is sufficient insulin to prevent this

First check it again with your monitor, make sure its just not your testing, wash your hands and dry them, use a new pokie, then retest, sometimes you can get high readings and other stuff showing up.
Ketones are a lot of different acids normally in you body BUT as a diabetic our sugars get high, ketoacidosis builds up. In the simplest terms your body is shutting down and preparing to die.
Its not nice nor is it fair but this is the truth, you must not let this happen.
To get rid of the ketone build up I always needed IV therapy normally over night with an IV drip on insulin. BUT if you are on dialysis like myself IV therapy is not allowed so I don't get the benefit of the IV's anymore. This caused my heart attack 3 times now, I will die of this hateful thing.
Good Luck

Blood glucose tests don't tell you if you have ketones, but some will suggest you test ketones if you are over 250 or something like that.

You test ketones using a Precision Xtra or urine strips.

If you have type 2, you probably don't have to worry about them.

My son had high keytones because his blood sugars were very high. He is a type 1 diabetic.

You need to get your blood sugars down. My son has to take insulin, being a type 1. You didn't say if you were a type 1 or type 2.

Buy some keytone test strips (at the store) can test your urine. If you are really high you need to go the emergency room, if you aren't you probably can bring down your blood sugars and lower it.

You may need to test frequently and take insulin shots to keep your sugars down to get the keytones under control. We spent a week testing and taking shots every two hours (doctor gave us a sliding scale to know how much insulin to take)to bring keytones down for my son and his was off the charts. He doesn't have any health insurance and we couldn't afford to take him to the emergency room. We got them down and his sugars have been under better control, but he has neuropathy in his feet from not taking his insulin for the last 9 month or so and has been in horrible pain, so do not let your go.
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