What is Ketoacidosis?
Ketoacidosis is when the body has an insufficient supply of insulin it cannot metabolize carbohydrates. Because of this inability to metabolize carbohydrates, the muscles become starved for glucose needed to provide the energy for work. In order to get that needed energy, the muscle breaks down fat. Fat, when metabolized produces the by-products called Ketones, which are normally excreted in the urine. If the body is unable to clear the ketones through the kidneys, they build to toxic levels and eventually lead to ketoacidosis. At the same time the body is producing ketones, it is not using glucose. The kidneys, through the production of urine, must remove both. The higher the ketones and unused glucose levels, the more urine must be produced and the body will become dehydrated.
