-
Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »
Type 1 Ketones
- Thread starter Marksmrs
- Start Date
catapillar
Well-Known Member
It depends on the context.
A healthy person eating a normal diet will have not ketones.
A person not eating anything will probably have ketones. These are starvation ketones.
A person losing weight through calorie control and exercise will have ketones. Ketone are produced when the body burns body fat for fuel.
A person on a high fat low carb diet will have ketones because when the body uses fat eaten for fuel ketones are produced. These are nutritional ketones.
As a diabetic if you have ketones you need to consider the context. Have you been eating? Have you been eating carbs? Starvation ketones and nutritional ketones aren't ketones to be concerned about. Ketones caused by a lack of insulin are ketones to be concerned about, and you know whether that's the case by checking your blood sugar levels. If you have high blood sugar and ketones the you need to apply sick day rules to correct or go to hospital / call 111. If you are euglycaemic and you know from the context of what you have been eating why you have ketones then they aren't anything to worry about and corrections will just cause hypos without impacting on the ketones.
A healthy person eating a normal diet will have not ketones.
A person not eating anything will probably have ketones. These are starvation ketones.
A person losing weight through calorie control and exercise will have ketones. Ketone are produced when the body burns body fat for fuel.
A person on a high fat low carb diet will have ketones because when the body uses fat eaten for fuel ketones are produced. These are nutritional ketones.
As a diabetic if you have ketones you need to consider the context. Have you been eating? Have you been eating carbs? Starvation ketones and nutritional ketones aren't ketones to be concerned about. Ketones caused by a lack of insulin are ketones to be concerned about, and you know whether that's the case by checking your blood sugar levels. If you have high blood sugar and ketones the you need to apply sick day rules to correct or go to hospital / call 111. If you are euglycaemic and you know from the context of what you have been eating why you have ketones then they aren't anything to worry about and corrections will just cause hypos without impacting on the ketones.
