Acetone & Food/Drink Acids

DisappearingTwinkie

For two weeks I have been tasting and smelling acetone. My breath does not smell like it, but if there is acid in a food or drink it is disgusting. I went around tasting things and the more acid in the item the worst the taste, a coke was like drinking nail polish remover and bugspray. Is there any reason I should not be freaking out?

I have been doing a Nutritional Ketogenic diet for now for just over 80 days. Early on I had the metallic taste for a week, and knew what that was. This is a whole other ballgame.

wabmester

Do you ever test with ketostix? It'd be interesting to see if you're wasting a lot of ketones. It is possible to produce too many, but it usually only happens in T1D.

IIRC, acetone is produced in the lowest quantity of the three ketones. Maybe a few percent? But it's the most volatile, so it will exhaust through the lungs and skin.

The quantity should be very small.

DisappearingTwinkie

I have not used the sticks. I was thinking about picking up a monitor. I have been told not to use the sticks by so many. I may end up snagging some to check though.