can you please tell me why diabetes, if severe, causes a coma?

Question

How does the whole diabetes related coma happen?

Answer 1

Diabetic coma: When blood sugar goes excessively high, diabetics may not be able to metabolize it. There will be a build up of ketones as a result and a shift of the acid-base balance of the body and brain to an acidotic state. The build up sugar and ketones will alter the movement of minerals in and out of the brain cells causing abnormal function leading to coma.

Answer 2

No: Colitis (inflammatory bowel diseases) and type 2 diabetes ("adult" diabetes) are not related illnesses. Both are chronic diseases, and some unlucky people do have both diseases. Patients with both conditions sometimes have difficulty managing the two problems at the same time.

Answer 3

No: No direct correlation but diabetes can certainly contribute to it.

Answer 4

Yes.: Diverticulitis, by definition, is a bacterial infection arising from a hole in the colon. Any infection may complicate the management of diabetes.

Answer 5

If you have: Divericulitis with fever and elevated WBC with or without an abscess, this could cause your diabetes to get out of control and cause severe, life threatening complications. If you have an infection and diabetes, the infection needs to be properly diagnosed and treated promptly not one or 2 days later.

Answer 6

Converse: The converse is true - diabetes can potentiate the complications of diverticulitis.

Answer 7

Maybe: Diabetes makes it harder to fight off all infections and increases the likelihood of complications.

Answer 8

Not always: Having diabetes doesn't automatically put you at increased risk, especially if you are otherwise healthy and your diabetes is under good control. The best thing to do is to address your overall health (exercise, diet, attitude) while getting specific treatment for your diabetes and legionnaires.

Answer 9

Kidney disease: Diabetes, especially if not controlled, will negatively affect kidney function, notably with respect to that organ's vital function in stimulating blood cell production. The kidneys do so by secreting a hormone that leads to red cell production.

Answer 10

Only kidney disease: So if anemic, likely not related to diabetes look for other cause! see md.

Answer 11

Horrible: During childbirth several horrible things can occur to the mother and to the child. Unclear from the question to whom you are referring. Coma of the mother can be caused by intracranial hemorrhage, anoxic damage, severe eclampsia, pituitary apoplexy, etc. In the baby it can be caused by hie (hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy). Recovery depends on cause and degree of damage.

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