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That seems like an extremely rare condition (source: I'm also a T1D and never encountered that when sick).

I presume you are referring to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554570/

When a young child with type 1 is sick and not eating or is vomiting, they are getting almost no insulin. My son's basal can be as low as 0.1U an hour. It's in these cases, where he has developed high ketones with glucose level around 90 mgdl.

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