diabetic acidosis

Another example of increased production of acids occurs in starvation and diabetic acidosis.

Diabetic acidosis (also called diabetic ketoacidosis and DKA) develops when substances called ketone bodies (which are acidic) build up during uncontrolled diabetes.

The physician who attended the child said that on admission to hospital the child was dangerously ill, suffering from diabetic acidosis, a potentially fatal disorder which was due to the absence of insulin.

(Connors had gone over the edge mentally three years before, when his diabetic wife, in the throes of diabetic acidosis, was thrown into the police station "drunk tank," where she was deprived of medication, killing her.