My wife is 7 mos. pregnant and was told she had ketones in her urine. What is it and how do we get rid of it?
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Not to worry...\n\nKetones are produced when fat is broken down....Fat is broken down when carbohydrates are not used or cannot be used due to lack of insulin or resistance to insulin action. Fat is also broken down when fat-destroying (lipolytic) hormones are in higher amounts...Thus Pregnancy facilitates ketone production as placenta produces hormones which act agains insulin in some ways, making pregnancya a ketogenic state....\n\nthe ketones may be used to fetal growth to a degree...\n(see source below)...\n.but ensuring that she eats well is important. I am sure they have checked the blood glucose....and is normal? drink liberal fluids....washes out some ketones
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A couple others have alluded to this, but I think the most important question is, is it normal FOR HER?  If she's been like that for most of her life -- say, if she just happens to have a small bladder and enjoy drinking a gallon of water a day -- it's possible there could be nothing wrong, although there are "bladder training" exercises that could help her learn to hold on longer if she's really bothered by it.  She could also have an "overactive" bladder which could be treated with meds, assuming she finds the benefit of the meds outweighs any side effects.  Actually, it could easily be both -- a chronically overactive bladder is going to start acting a lot "smaller" than normal, because the overactivity never allows it to stretch out to its full capacity, so it gets used to needing to be emptied urgently with less and less urine.\n\n   What would really be an issue to worry about is if going this often is a *drastic change* from what has been normal for her whole life up to now.  In that case, a doctor could start to suspect a urinary tract infection, early onset diabetes, or some other such condition, and she should definitely get evaluated just to be safe.  In general, any major change in bladder, bowel, or any other bodily functions, see a doctor right away!!
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With diabetes the cells are unable to burn enough glucose for energy (because glucose cannot get into the cells).  The alternative to burning glucose for energy is to burn fatty acids for energy through beta oxidation.\n\nThe 'excessive' beta oxidation of fatty acids leads to a buildup of acetyl CoA.  Excess acetyl CoA is converted into ketones.  Excessive levels of ketones causes 'keto acidosis'.\n\nHope you find this helpful.
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man...simple answer....start going to the gym or start jogging in the morning . Also, control your diet. Stop taking animal fat and have more of fruits and vegetables to satisfy your hunger. However, DONOT FAST. It will lead to ketosis. Not good for health.
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Gestational diabetes develops due to the added stress on your body due to the pregnancy, and will go away after the baby is born.  In the meantime, it is very important you do whatever is needed to keep the blood sugar levels within normal limits, even if that means using insulin.  The high sugar levels damage your kidneys, and will cause the baby to gain too much weight prior to birth- adding complications for safe delivery for you both.  Exercise can help, along with the diet, in helping you maintain normal blood sugar levels.  You need to speak with the doctor before starting to be sure there are no other problems which would make it dangerous for you, but usually a moderate level of exercise like walking is encouraged.  I don't know what type of diet you were given, or how easy it is for you to follow, but that is probably the most crucial part for you to control.  You will need to follow the diet conscienciously for the entire pregnancy.  Pay close attention to any packaged or convenience foods you are eating or using, many of them actually contain sugar- just not always labeled as such.  Corn syrup, corn syrup solids, any chemical name containing -ose in the name is a type of sugar, as well as the obvious table sugar, fruit sugars, and honey, molasses, and golden syrup.  You need to check labels very carefully and watch the carbohydrate grams- that's where the sugar levels reveal themselves, in the carbo grams.  Basically, you will follow a low carbohydrate diet.  And you will be surprised at what all you discover sugars in, even places you never suspected, like catsup and mayonnaise, and salad dressings.  When diabetics have problems, it's usually something like these that are the culprits.   It's not the sugar you see that gets you- it's what is hidden in the labels.    If you are having trouble with the diet, talk with the dietician.   If you want ideas of how to design a diet or menu, search the web for gestational diabetes diets and menus- lots of sites for moms and babies have them.\n  I don't know if the doctors told you, but developing gestational diabetes puts you at higher risk for developing Type 2 diabetes later in life. So even after the baby arrives and the problem goes away, you still need to keep periodic tabs on your blood sugar levels throughout your life.  You need to be careful to follow a sensible diet and exercise plan, and maintain a proper weight to lower your risk as much as possible.   You will also likely develop gestational diabetes in future pregnancys, not always, but most likely.  If you do need insulin to control the blood sugar levels, frightening as the prospect is, it is the best thing for you and the baby.  Uncontrolled diabetes can kill both of you, or leave you in a permanent coma.\n  The baby is likely to get quite large early on, and most doctors will monitor the babys size very carefully.  Usually doctors will induce at any point after 38 weeks, for the safety of you both.  They can induce earlier if it becomes higher risk for you to continue or the baby becomes stressed.   You need to have the doctor explain this all to you clearly, and discuss it all well beforehand, so you will know and understand, and can make any arrangements you want to make.\n  Gestational diabetes is not the worst complication of pregnancy, and if you work to control yours there is no reason to expect anything other than a healthy baby and mother in another 15-16 weeks.  Do what you need to do to stay healthy and have a healthy baby.  Good luck, and best wishes
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A normal person usually urinates only once from bedtime until the time she wakes up in the morning. However, if she frequently urinates at night, then her diabetes might not be controlled. First, a urinalysis should be done to rule out urinary tract infection. Midstream or the middle flow should be collected as the initial flow is dirty, middle is sterile, meaning it is more clean.  Her sugar should be monitored. When was the last time she had been tested for the HBA1c, this is a blood examination, called glycosylated hemoglobin which determines the average blood sugar for the past 8 weeks.  It should be less than 7. Her 2 hour postprandial or blood taken 2 hours after meal should also be taken. FBS or fasting blood sugar should also be done together with the creatinine *( determines the kidney function). liver enzymes ( to rule out liver disease due to intake of medications), uric acid to rule out Gouty arthritis! as a cause of the joint pains. \n   For the diet, her ideal weight for the height & built should be taken to determine is she is underweight, within ideal or overweight, or obese. From there you will know how much she weighs in excess or just enough. \n   Ideally for this case, a dietician should be consutled. She should have low salt, low fat, diabetic diet. Avoid too much of fruits because this contains natural sugar called fructose which can also increase her blood sugar. Avoid softdrinks, if cant control, then diet will do, but the best will be water, 8 glasses of water a day. If you are diabetic, you should have breakfast, lunch, dinner & 2 snacks to prevent hypoglycemia, blood sugar goes down which is more dreadful. Simple snacks can be simple crackers. Avoid too much of cheese this increases her sodium as well as her cholesterol. Avoid instant soups, this increases her sodium.
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Why would you drink something like that?  Your baby may not be ok, and you probably are not either.
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Cyst on Ovary, Enlarged Uterus, Wanting a Baby, Frequent Trips to the Bathroom?\n\nSounds to me like acidity, which may prevent you from having a baby. Want to try modern and ancient alternatives?\n\nBecoming Alkaline\nYou may want to measure your pH urine and saliva. Both should be 7.5 at all times, as I see it. If not, you may want to add more and more alkaline-forming food to your diet, until the pH is alkaline. With acidity all kinds of disorders may occur. See www.biochakra.com, Hilite article of April 2006, Only Two Diseases Possible - on acidity and alkalinity.\n\nWhen Cleaning May be Too Fast\nYet, an alkaline diet is cleansing and may cleanse too fast, which may cause an acid reaction by stirring up too quickly the toxins stored in bones and tissues. In that case, the pH would again go down despite of an alkaline-forming diet. You may have to eat less alkaline-forming food for some time and add more beans or other grounding foods to your diet, or have some of the foods your body is craving at that time.\n\nMeasuring the pH with pH Paper\nYou can get a roll of pH paper from the health food store. You use a bit of it to dip in urine and another piece to dip in saliva. The pH paper will discolor according to your pH. The color scale of the pH paper box tells you what pH you are dealing with, when you compare the color of each used piece of pH paper with the color on the pH box.\n\nAcid- and Alkaline-forming Foods\nAlkaline-forming foods are mainly vegetables and fruit.\nAcid-forming foods are mainly meat, chicken, fish, dairy.\n\nAlkaline Boosters\nCarrot beet juice is alkaline-forming, as are yams, wild rice, blueberries, ginger, green or white tea, yeast, etc. See books on alkaline food. You may want to have several kinds every day according to your pH. You may want to keep a pH list with notes your pH, the time and date and what you have consumed and experienced (emotions, environment) to see what makes you acid and what makes you alkaline.\n\nDinshah Color MedicineTM - Healing with the Speed of LightTM\nFurthermore you may want to try Dinshah Color MedicineTM, using the Dinshah color Indigo daily and once a week the Dinshah color Orange, on your belly. All is energy and nothing may be faster than healing with the speed of light, literally.\n\nDinshah Color Filters\nAll you need for Dinshah Color MedicineTM is a set of Dinshah color filters (gels; via www.biochakra.com, contact us), which you place in a simple self-made filter holder, which is taped to a regular reading lamp.\n\nHow to Use Dinshah Color MedicineTM\nYou may want to shine the colored light on your belly for 1/2 hour or an hour, every day, or may be even twice. Miracles have been reported from using the Dinshah colors. Color healing is used in advanced European hospitals. Book: Let There Be Light by Darius Dinshah; from Amazon or Barnes and Noble, Internet. Filters and How To Info (pamphlet) for $3 from www.biochakra.com.\n\nMuch alkaline success and your dream baby!\nCordially, India.Magica
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When a persons blood sugar remains high over a period of time the body starts consuming fat stores for energy.  As this fat is consumed it produces ketone bodies to be released into the body.  The ph balance of the body is very critical.  As the body fat is burned and released into the blood system the ph balance of the body becomes very acidic so much as to be incompatible with life.  As the blood sugar rises so does the potassium level which is very critical to the functioning of the body also.
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Go to Wal-Mart and get a product called Kids 'N' Pets. It comes in a 32 oz bottle It removes stains and oders caused by many different things including pets and urine. Put in a spray bottle and saturate everything. The enzyems in the product eat the oder then just air dry or blow dry. It works great!
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They do make a few things that are suppose to get rid of them, I have used one called Mederma, it might have helped but they are still here. If you plan on getting pregnant again make sure to drink lots of water, it makes the skin more elastic, and use lotion everyday. To get something like Mederma you will have to go through your doctor I believe.
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No, it could be diabetes, it could be your pregnant, but that is usually not until much further along in the pregnancy when the fetus starts pushing up against the bladder, how many liquids a day do you consume? That could have a lot to do with it. Especially if you drink a lot of water or tea.
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Possibly detoxing, but I agree with the other fellow who mentioned ketosis as well.  Sometimes you will see a white substance on the tongue which is supposed to be a type of eliminative waste trying to exit your body.  You are supposed to try to slough it off with a clean cloth or napkin, which might rid of any odor and speed up any detoxifying process.
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I used low carb & metaformin to concieve with my daughter. Who knows which really worked, but I know it has. I have 3 lovely kids,and the last was concieved w/o meds, just the old fashioned normal way, lol.\n I got alot of good information at this site. Hope it helps....
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when urine contains high amount of ketone bodies......then it give false positive test for alcohol too..
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In today's society, when we want something, we want it now! And with pregnancy, it is no different.\n\nYou can see ads for pregnancy tests everywhere! Each ad claims to be easier and more accurate than the next pregnancy test. How do you sort through all of the information? \n\nLet's begin with the basics. \n\nThere are two basic types of pregnancy tests. Blood and Urine. They are both used to test for the presence of Human Chorionic Gonadotropic (hCG). hCG is secreted in your urine and detected in your blood beginning at different times during pregnancy. \n\nBlood test are the more accurate of the two types of testing. They can not only tell you if hCG is present, but a quantitative hCG can tell you how much hCG is present. This can be helpful in dating a pregnancy, or watching the levels to observe the well-being of the pregnancy. \n\nhCG usually doubles about every two days during the first few weeks of pregnancy.). \nUrine tests are accurate for what they detect the presence of hCG. However, the amounts of hCG detectable by home pregnancy tests and lab urine pregnancy test varies. \n\nThe most sensitive test that I have found measures about 25 mIU/ml of hCG in the urine. While this information is not printed on the box, you can always call the toll-free advice line on the back of the box, or look at some of the lists that have been compiled. \n\nHome tests are accurate enough if you follow the instructions. This means reading all of the instructions before you start the testing. \n\nIf you choose to use a home urine pregnancy test, you should use the following advice to help make the test more accurate:\n\n\nIf you are not using first morning urine, make sure that your urine has been in your bladder for four hours. \nDo not drink excessive amounts of fluid in an attempt to increase the volume of urine, this can dilute the urine, making hCG not as detectable. \nIf you are taking any medications, including fertility drugs, read the package inserts before testing to see if your medications will affect the results. \nIf your pregnancy test is positive make sure that you seek prenatal care from a qualified doctor or midwife. \n\ngo to http://www.peeonastick.com (all about pregnancy tests)\n\nDoes a Late Menstrual Period Mean I Am Pregnant?\nOne of the first signs of pregnancy is a late period. But missed periods do not necessarily mean that you are pregnant. If you’re sexually active and have missed a period, then it is worthwhile to take a pregnancy test. You may still want to take a pregnancy test even if you have been using contraception. Since birth control can fail, taking a pregnancy test will allow you to rule out one of the possible causes of missed periods. Your local pregnancy center can provide a test for free. \n\nIf you have a late period and a negative pregnancy test, then consider whether or not you’ve recently been sick, gained or lost a significant amount of weight, have been under excessive stress or have taken any new medications. All of these things can affect your menstrual cycle and cause you to have irregular periods. Additionally, certain types of birth control, including the birth control pill, Depo-Provera and Norplant, can cause you to have menstrual cycles disturbances. \n\ngood luck
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I would use gas to remove it from adults but I dont reccommend doing that for a little baby , the best thing to do is to contact a health center .