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#805 Bold Beginnings: Illness Ketone Management

Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes

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Is Your Insulin Needs Driving You Up With a CGM?

Most illnesses that are the chest cold, the sinus infection and ear infection will drive your insulin needs up. If you don't stay on top of that with an illness early on, you're more likely to get ketones because you haven't brought the blood sugars down based on the illness. You could almost have because of the situation and such high blood sugars, you might have ketones that are just from high blood sugars that aren't specifically from illness.

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