It has a rapid onset and high mortality rate. The initial symptoms include general weakness, excessive drinking, frequent urination, deep and fast breathing, and a smell of rotten apples in the exhaled breath. As the condition progresses, severe dehydration symptoms may occur, such as reduced urine output, dry skin and mucous membranes, sunken eyeballs, fast and weak pulse, decreased blood pressure, and cold limbs; In the late stage, various reflexes become dull or even disappear, eventually leading to coma.
No matter what type of diabetes patients may suffer from ketoacidosis, but compared with type 2 diabetes patients, type 1 diabetes patients are more likely to suffer from ketoacidosis because of the absolute lack of insulin in their bodies. Fulminant type 1 diabetes is more like 0 reply
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