Originally Posted by Calianna

Most nurses have probably never even heard of nutritional ketosis, so the automatic assumption is that they have a case of ketoacidosis on their hands - whether the patient is diagnosed as diabetic or not. Since ketoacidosis is a very serious life threatening condition it needs to be treated immediately.

One of the first things they do is to give insulin - if someone already has low blood sugars, but high ketones due to nutritional ketoacidosis, that in itself could be life threatening.