There is no single most serious acute complication of diabetes, and any one of them can be fatal when the condition is critical. Ketoacidosis is generally considered to be one of the more serious complications of diabetes, and must be rescued in a timely manner, otherwise it can be life-threatening.
Diabetic ketoacidosis is a serious acute complication of diabetes that occurs when insulin therapy is interrupted in patients with type 1 diabetes or in patients with type 2 diabetes who are experiencing stressful situations such as severe infections, sudden rises in blood glucose, and vomiting.
In the early stage of diabetic ketoacidosis, patients will have obvious weakness, nausea, vomiting, the development of the middle and late patients can appear respiratory distress, lethargy, or even coma, so diabetic ketoacidosis is a very serious acute complications, need to be actively receiving insulin therapy, but also need to be intravenous rehydration, it must be timely resuscitation, or else it will be life-threatening.
Therefore, if a diabetic patient has ketoacidosis, the family must actively send the patient to the regular hospital to receive examination and treatment, to avoid delayed diagnosis and treatment.