Odd possible keto downside? Extra cleaning

(Crippie) #1

Ok, So my wife really wanted me to post about this. It is a very odd topic, something she has complained a lot of recently, and i wanted to know if anyone else had a similar experience and if it could be related to keto.

We all know that going keto you will spill ketones in your urine and it can result in strong foul smelling urine and such. Well that I know is true, the topic that has come up is how this affects toilet cleanliness.

It seems since going keto our toilet needs much more frequent cleaning. Within a week we have the dreaded yellow ring in the toilet, whereas before we would only get that maybe once a month. We flush every time, we have the little clip on discs that are supposed to wash with each flush. But it just yellows the bowl so quickly now.

Could this be related to the excess ketones in urine staining the bowl quicker, or something similar? Or is it just an odd coincidence?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

I haven’t encountered that, myself. However, not only are people different, but each toilet has had a different history, and I am not convinced that you can ever get one completely clean. It may simply be that something adhering to the porcelain is reacting to something in your urine, and that if you were using a different toilet, you wouldn’t have this problem.

For example, until recently, I lived in an apartment where the toilet always developed what looked a bit like mold or mildew at exactly the same spot near the waterline. It kept coming back, no matter how hard I scrubbed or what chemicals I used. Haven’t experienced anything like it at the house here, perhaps partly because I believe it’s a newer toilet.

#3

We diabetics trying Keto to help out blood sugar recognize mold in the toilet. It happens when the body starts peeing out excess glucose. (And the bacteria go wild for it) Together with “unexplained” weighloss snd sky high blood sugars it’s known as Keto acidosis and is a very bad sign.

I’ve read that Keto is basically a light, controlled form of Keto acidosis which explains why you would be seeing changes in your toilet water.

This has recently happened to me but I take my blood sugar everyday and it’s at a fine pre-diabetic level, lower than it’s been in a long time, so I’m read this as a sign that my body is peeing out glucose instead of using it for energy.

I was once prescribed a diabetes management drug which encouraged the body to pee out excess glucose instead of having the kidney filter it back into the system and the same moldy toilet problem happened then as well.