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DEFINITION
When for a feverish process a child does not eat in any more than two days or for having many vomiting it can be earlier, the sugar of the low blood great and for it the body tries to look for energy burning the fat. This burned fat of incomplete form produces an increase of the bodies cetónicos circulating and in the breath the typical smell of acetone appears, both in breath and in the urine.
CAUSES
The acetone properly is an illnesses symptom, principally infantile, that produce fever, vomiting and diarrhea, as there are the infections for virus.
SYMPTOMS
- Smell of acetone in the breath
- Smell of acetone in the urine
- General decay
- Increase of the fever
- It provokes more vomiting, which does a closed circle, since these give more acetone, which provokes more fever and more vomiting.
TREATMENT
It is based principally in giving sugar to the organism. It usually meet in small water gulps on sugar diluted, to avoid the vomiting and to manage to open the acetone / vomiting / fever / acetone circle.
Also it is possible to give a water with squeezed lemon, very little salt and something of bicarbonate (what is a home-made whey), with it sometimes there is gained a better tolerance and less vomiting.
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