Dog Diabetes Considerations

Precautions for dog diabetes:

1. For dogs, any balanced diet is reasonable. The owner should calculate the calorie needs of the dog, so that daily feeding can keep the dog below the ideal weight. Especially for dogs with recurrent episodes of pancreatitis, avoid high-fat diets, which are common in diabetic dogs.

2. For diabetic dogs, the owner should feed them before injecting insulin, which is beneficial to the intestinal absorption of glucose produced during meals, and can maximize the activity of insulin. If the owner wants to inject insulin into the dog first, it is also possible, but it must be fed immediately after the injection. Because if the dog does not eat after the insulin injection, it will cause its blood sugar to crash.

3. It is more important for the owner to maintain a consistent diet for the dog than to improve the diet and adjust the control of blood sugar. Consistent diet types, food portions, and feeding methods all contribute to a dog's metabolic stability and more predictable insulin requirements.

Symptoms of dog diabetes:

1. The dog will be extremely irritable, thirsty, have a strong appetite, but also pull a lot, lose weight or become thin.

2. When the dog's condition worsens, the breath it exhales will have a ketone odor. If the condition develops further, symptoms of intractable vomiting and bloody diarrhea may appear, which may cause acidosis and fall into a coma.

3. When a dog has diabetes, its blood sugar test will be on the high side, normally 120 mg/100 ml, and at this time the dog's blood sugar may increase to 150 mg/100 ml, sometimes even as high as 400 mg /100ml.

4. When the dog's diabetes is very serious, it will also cause symptoms such as corneal ulcer, vitreous opacity, omentum peeling, and even blindness, as well as hair loss, heart failure, and even coma.