art-of-mathematics:

wonderwanda:

intheheartofman:

astrodidact:

I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.

The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.

Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.

No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.

It makes me furios insuline is still considered as something people could live without. It"s terrible people still have to pay for it - (especially this costly) - just to barely survive - and be forced to risk one of the most cruel deaths you could imagine.

Cetoacidosis is terrible. Severe cetoacidosis causes multiple organ failures.

[TW detailled description of how cetoacidosis feels like/ TW dying]

Your body tries to compensate by making you thirsty (craving for water intake) to flush the sugar out of your body. At first the thirst comes. You pee more than you drink. You literally feel like you die out of thirst while drinking far too much. Then it proceeds to you vomitting. No more water intake is possible thereof. This fuels the downwards spiral.

At this stage your blood"s ph value is already more acidic. If you don"t get electrolytes, intravanous hydration - and especially insuline - your blood becomes more and more acidic. Multiple organ failures is the result if not intervened against it quickly enough.