hormonal and metabolic disorders
Alcoholic Ketoacidosis
Introduction
Alcoholic ketoacidosis is a complication of Alcohol Use and starvation that causes excess acid in the bloodstream, resulting in vomiting and abdominal pain. (See also Diabetes Mellitus (DM) .) , most cells cannot get energy from the glucose that is in the blood. Cells still need energy to survive, so they switch to a back-up mechanism to obtain energy. Fat cells begin breaking down, producing compounds called ketones. Ketones provide some energy to cells but also make the blood too acidic (ketoacidosis). This ketoacidosis is similar to the ketoacidosis that occurs in diabetes except that, unlike in Diabetic Ketoacidosis , blood glucose levels are low. 