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On 5/17/24 18:36, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 5/17/2024 12:07 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:
>> On 5/17/24 07:41, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 5/17/2024 7:25 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-17, Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what a vaccine against sugar would do
>>>>> to public health?
>>>>
>>>> I'll go out on a limb and say that you can't train the immune system
>>>> against the common, simple, nutritionally relevant sugars.
>>>>
>>> Ya, you _really_ don't want a glucose vaccine....
>>>
>> No, you don't. This could be called diabetes, where you literally 
>> can't use the glucose in your food.
>>
> A diabetic still processes glucose, just not as well.  A COMPLETE 
> inability to process glucose would cause death by starvation and there 
> wouldn't be any way to stop it.
> 

A Type 1 diabetic does not produce insulin. Insulin allows glucose to be 
used by the body. When a diabetic stops producing insulin entirely or 
maybe just not enough of it, and blood sugar goes way up, the diabetic 
goes into ketoacidosis (not quite sure of the spelling). They get this 
sweet fruity smell, somewhat like Juicy Fruit Gum. The insulin they that 
they take allows them to process the glucose. Too much insulin will also 
cause problems, and a patient will go through several stages of insulin 
shock. In one of my first experiences with insulin shock, I saw the 
paramedics shoot a completely unconscious and barely breathing patient 
with a big ampule of glucose (or maybe dextrose) and she woke up not too 
much later, very out of it, but still alive.


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Dave Scruggs
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Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired)
Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I 
thinking?)