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<blockquote data-quote="squidge105" data-source="post: 2641143" data-attributes="member: 579889"><p>Hi and Thankyou all </p><p>I’d like to clarify my husband wasn’t on a keto diet . A libra only monitors glucose levels. He’s had the libra for months now. I’d had the discussion about him eating or not eating carbs before with him and the diabetic nurse and he just would not budge from the view that carbs turn to sugar which makes them bad. Obviously we know carbs are not bad and when you are an insulin dependent t1 or t2 carbs are an important part of the process of the body functioning. </p><p>As for the sick day rules we’d never been informed of these either. We knew that in sick days his sugars rose but we’d never been told how to deal with that. I’m in no way criticising his diabetic nurse because she is great and I’m able to email her about anything related to his diabetes. </p><p>My intention with this post is to inform folks about DKA and for whatever reason people have not been informed. I’m not a medic of any description I just know what we have been through. </p><p>Also it was the drs and nurses in icu who told us DKA for diabetics can be diet (what they are eating not as in a diet for weight loss) , medication -as in not being consistent with. Also ill health can be a factor. My hubby’s glucose always skyrocket when he’s unwell and even happened when in hospital once. Even then we were not told about DKA. I know exactly what it does and how it effects the body now, I’m almost expert at it. I just don’t want to see anyone else have to deal with this when it can be so easily dealt with. When keytones reach a certain level hospital is the only place you need to be at. It’s a very low level and I don’t have those numbers in front of me right now. You can’t sort it yourself. Look at the nhs website where I’m sure the info can be found. </p><p>All I know now is I’m exhausted, I have my own health issues in fact he is my carer as I’m disabled but I’m having to do my best to help him. Hopefully social services are sitting out extra hours for me to increase my care plan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="squidge105, post: 2641143, member: 579889"] Hi and Thankyou all I’d like to clarify my husband wasn’t on a keto diet . A libra only monitors glucose levels. He’s had the libra for months now. I’d had the discussion about him eating or not eating carbs before with him and the diabetic nurse and he just would not budge from the view that carbs turn to sugar which makes them bad. Obviously we know carbs are not bad and when you are an insulin dependent t1 or t2 carbs are an important part of the process of the body functioning. As for the sick day rules we’d never been informed of these either. We knew that in sick days his sugars rose but we’d never been told how to deal with that. I’m in no way criticising his diabetic nurse because she is great and I’m able to email her about anything related to his diabetes. My intention with this post is to inform folks about DKA and for whatever reason people have not been informed. I’m not a medic of any description I just know what we have been through. Also it was the drs and nurses in icu who told us DKA for diabetics can be diet (what they are eating not as in a diet for weight loss) , medication -as in not being consistent with. Also ill health can be a factor. My hubby’s glucose always skyrocket when he’s unwell and even happened when in hospital once. Even then we were not told about DKA. I know exactly what it does and how it effects the body now, I’m almost expert at it. I just don’t want to see anyone else have to deal with this when it can be so easily dealt with. When keytones reach a certain level hospital is the only place you need to be at. It’s a very low level and I don’t have those numbers in front of me right now. You can’t sort it yourself. Look at the nhs website where I’m sure the info can be found. All I know now is I’m exhausted, I have my own health issues in fact he is my carer as I’m disabled but I’m having to do my best to help him. Hopefully social services are sitting out extra hours for me to increase my care plan [/QUOTE]
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