Articles Tagged ‘Acetone’
Definition When a febrile process in a child does not eat more than two days or by vomiting can have many before, the blood sugar falls too much and therefore the body tries to burning fat for energy. This incompletely burned fat causes an increase in circulating ketone bodies and the breath is the characteristic odor of acetone in both breath and urine. Causes Acetone itself is a symptom of disease, mainly children, that cause fever, vomiting and diarrhea, such as virus infections. Symptoms * The smell of acetone on the breath * The smell of acetone in the urine * General decay * Increased fever * It causes more vomiting, which makes a closed, since these are more acetone, which causes more and more vomiting fever. Treatment It relies mainly on sugar to the body. It often results in small sips of sugar water diluted to prevent vomiting and could open the circle of acetone / vomiting / fever / acetone. You can also take a water with lemon juice, very little salt and ...
What The acetonaemia or ketosis is a very common condition in childhood and is due to a momentary disturbance of the metabolism of the child who, after burning all the sugars available to the agency begins to burn as a source of alternative energy including fats, thereby determining the increase in blood and urine ketone bodies (hyperketonemia) until it reaches toxic levels. In an attempt to reduce its concentration in the blood, the body begins to eliminate in urine and acetoacetic acids 3-hydroxy-butyric acid (may be highlighted in the urine with the help of stick urine for the presence of ketonuria, sold in all pharmacies) and through the lungs, acetone: the latter, in contact with air, releases the characteristic smell of ripe fruit. Causes Acetone and toned bodies that are due, in most cases, deficient food, especially after a feed too high in fat, but can also occur after prolonged fasting during the "stress" infectious febrile that can cause both increased secretion of hor...