What to do when urine ketone body is high

Dr. Alex Carter
Dr. Alex Carter Verified

Healing with hope, guiding with care.

2025-05-03 23:29:48 Views: 27 times

Ketone body is the general term for β-hydroxybutyric acid, acetoacetic acid and acetone. The three are the intermediates of fat metabolism in the body. When sugar metabolism in the body is insufficient, fat metabolism is active, but incomplete oxidation can produce a large number of ketone bodies, which are excreted from urine to form ketonuria. When ketone body in urine rises, most common is diabetic ketonuria, often accompanied by ketoacidosis, ketonuria is the early index of diabetic coma, at this time more accompanied by hyperglycemia and diabetes, and to accept Jiangtangling and other biguanide drugs treatment although showing ketonuria, but blood sugar and urine sugar normal. Therefore, when showing diabetic diabetes, you should go to the endocrinology department for treatment. Non-diabetic ketonuria includes high fever, severe vomiting, diarrhea, prolonged hunger, eating, excessive dieting, vomiting during pregnancy, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, etc. Because of glucose metabolism disorder, ketonuria is shown. Most of this kind of ketonuria is caused by digestive system problems, so you need to go to the digestive internal medicine department for treatment.

What to do when urine ketone body is high



What Everyone is Watching