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Prologue – Diabetic Ketoacidosis & Uremic Encephalopathy in COVID

You came to us with a tube deep inside your throat, your eyes completely closed. You were not talking, not moving a bit and not even feeling any pain. In fact you were in coma. You were a sugar patient and your body had levels well above 500. It was such in excess amount that it was poisoning your body. It was making acid inside your body which was affecting your organs especially the brain which has put you in deep slumber. Then to make things worse, it had silently affected your kidneys like termites destroying the wood and we came to know your creatinine was 10x the normal levels and kidneys had stopped working, further adding to the ongoing insult to your brain.

COVID – The Cytokine Storm

So what triggered all this? What was it that landed you…