What Is a Ketone Test? A ketone test can warn you of a serious diabetes complication called diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA. An elevated level of this substance in your blood can mean that you have very ...

Your body typically uses glucose, or sugar, as its main source of energy. When cells don’t get the glucose they need, the body begins to use fat instead. Burning fat produces ketones, a type of acid ...

Sicking to any diet is hard, but the high-fat keto diet is particularly challenging. That’s because it requires maintaining ketosis, or fat burning mode. Typically, you’ll need to eat less than 50 ...

Having a trace amount of ketones in your urine is normal. You can test at home or at a clinic to determine your ketone levels. If your levels are high, you may want to talk with a healthcare ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), self-reported ketone monitoring is infrequent overall, according to research published online Jan. 18 in Diabetes Care. Anastasia Albanese-O ...

Testing blood ketone levels before breakfast, lunch, and dinner identified a greater number of ketosis episodes than testing urinary ketone levels in women with gestational diabetes (GD). The presence ...