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Ashti
04/29/08
Category: Diabetes

When a child is sick, why can ketones appear 15minutes after vomiting when blood sugar has been low?

I am wondering if the stress of vomiting shoots the hormones up which in turn raises blood sugar which uses up the last remaining bit of insulin, and the body responds by burning fat hence creating ketones??? Or would something else be happening?

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