Posting here for traffic - toddler with acetone breath?

[AcetoneBreath]

Hello!

I have name changed, (obviously).

My 21 mo DS has breath which smells of acetone. He's had it for the past couple of days. I think he may have a bit of a bug of some kind as well, as he hasn't been himself and has had a bit of tummy trouble.

I'm planning on phoning the GP on Monday regardless, but I (foolishly) googled and there is the odd post on some forums saying, "see a doctor immediately as it could be diabetes and he could slip into a coma" . We are on holiday at the moment, (back home tomorrow, first thing), but we are in the UK. We obviously wouldn't be able to go to a GP till monday anyway, unless it was out of hours, but, is this a 111 type job...?

My sister, who is a doctor, saw him yesterday. She was the one who originally told me about the link to diabetes. I'd never heard of it before. Anyway, she said if it was diabetes he would be weeing all the time and losing weight, which he doesn't appear to be. She wasn't worried about him especially.

Should I wait till Monday or would you try 111?

TIA

My exh (dad of dc) couldn't smell it on them. I could smell it on exh though. I do think theres a gender bit at work as well, women do tend to be more sensitive to smell

Thanks @rvby and @namechange46. Very strange business.

My son gets this when he's unwell (and subsequently hasn't eaten much). I'm the only one that can smell it. He isn't diabetic.

Are they teething? My DD's breath was like that when teething.