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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ringi" data-source="post: 1516415" data-attributes="member: 410240">I expect your meter does not measure keytones and is just warning you there is a risk of diabetic ketoacidosis when your BG is over 15 so telling you to test for keytones being very high and if so, get a lift to A&E (calling 999 may not get a quick enough response.)We have two different concepts that are as different as a little rain compared to 2 feet of rain in one hour, they get mixed up as the sound like each other.In diabetic ketoacidosis your body has so little insulin that it eats it self up, the process stops the little remaining insulin from working,so goes into a runaway state.   (A bit like feedback on a PA system.)   When diabetic ketoacidosis is going on the body is breaking down its own fat and proteins at a very fast rate and hence producing a lot of keytones.   Diabetic ketoacidosis will kill you within a day without expert intensive care, even with the best hospital care it still kills about 5% of cases.A low level of keytones shows you that your body is "burning fat" maybe your own, maybe fat you have eaten.   Hence having a low level of keytones proves that our carb intake is low enough to get Type2 under control.   Detecting a low level of keytones can be hard, hence you can be burning fat even when you can't get a possible result.</blockquote>

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