Hello, My 16 yr old son had a successful appendectomy five days ago and I was looking over the results of the CBC when I noticed his urine keytones were high (5*). Is this common with an acute appendicitis or should I have it checked to make sure it dropped back to normal? Please advise. Thank you!
Hi...usually, before surgery the kid would have been starved and immediately after surgery too his oral intake may have been poor. Usually starvation results in ketones being present in the urine. This is the reason and not appendicitis. Another reason could be stress of appendicitis and surgery could have increased the sugar levels in blood which could have caused this.It's temporary..... Don't worry. Regards -