High blood glucose levels occur in type 1 and type 2 diabetes for different reasons.
Not exact matches
A third type, gestational diabetes,
occurs in pregnant women who produce
high levels of
blood glucose.
Whether type 1 or type 2, diabetes
occurs when
levels of
glucose in the
blood climb too
high.
This
occurs via at least two mechanisms: 1) The increased carb intake maintains
blood glucose and insulin at a
higher level (inhibiting cortisol release).
We would like to emphasize that ketosis is a completely physiological mechanism and it was the biochemist Hans Krebs who first referred to physiological ketosis to differentiate it from the pathological keto acidosis seen in type 1 diabetes.8 In physiological ketosis (which
occurs during very - low - calorie ketogenic diets), ketonemia reaches maximum
levels of 7/8 mmol / l (it does not go
higher precisely because the CNS efficiently uses these molecules for energy in place of
glucose) and with no change in pH, whereas in uncontrolled diabetic ketoacidosis it can exceed 20 mmol / l with a concomitant lowering of
blood pH9, 10 (Table 1).
This decline
occurred at a time when there is a global epidemic of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which includes obesity, altered
blood cholesterol
levels,
high blood pressure, and increased
blood glucose resulting from insulin resistance.
Hyperglycemia in dogs
occurs when
blood sugar (
glucose)
levels are
higher than 130 mg / dl, although symptoms and signs appear only when a critical
level of 180 - 220 mg / dl is reached.
As a result,
blood glucose levels rise even
higher and which causes a whole host of problems to begin
occurring in your Miniature Schnauzer.
Dogs like Delta are trained to detect subtle changes in a diabetic patient's body chemistry that
occur when the
levels of
glucose in the
blood drop too low or rise too
high.