Keytones need help

[mommy1diabetic]

OK so we spent x mas day in the hospital from five am to 2 pm. My daughter was throwing up with large keytones and she needed iv and sonigrams and x rays blood taken alomst cathed. I got her to get up and pee in the cup so they did not ended up cathing her thanks goodness she had a fever of 103 when we first go there. But back to my big problem i am haveing i cant get rid of they keytones. They ar...e still at dark purple on a urine keytone strip. and when we left the hospital they where at a 3 plus. Have not changed sinc then. I called childrens hospital dr satar said follow sick day papers i am like duh i am doing that. Got something else to tell me. But no help there. So i am looking for some help from someone that knows what more i can do for my daughter i am compleately at a loss. Keeping in mind my daughter is five years old.

[AProsser]

Is her blood sugars high? If so that's the main reason... also infections cause keytones. The scary thing is that prolonged high blood sugars with infection and high keytones can throw a diabetic into ketoacidoses *sp* . Just keep pushing liquids and keep tight eye on Bs.

[mommy1diabetic]

thank you so much for you help. It was that she was sick with the flu and a U.T.I. And you are varey rite about the ifections. The infections feed of the sugers in the body and for a diabetic it is even harder to get ride of there sicknesses. We fight this all the time she gets sick a lot more easer than a  healther child. And i dont know if it is becaus eof the diabetes but i asume thats what it is.