Herbalist’s insulin advice likely led to ketoacidosis and death, court hears

Diabetic ketoacidosis likely caused the death a woman who was warned off her insulin by a Chinese herbalist, a doctor told a court on Tuesday.
Suspended Chinese medicine practitioner Yun Sen Luo has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of the 56-year-old mother on 8 June 2018.
In evidence tendered to the District Court of New South Wales in Sydney, cardiologist Dr Cameron Holloway said the woman’s fatal cardiac arrest was most likely triggered by diabetic ketoacidosis.
An autopsy had revealed some underlying heart disease, but this would not be unusual for her age, Dr Holloway said.