Discuss with them how best to manage
your changing needs for insulin.
Not exact matches
Now I think this recipe will be my new apple crisp (Dad is gone, as is Mom, and bro is married, so my sweet sis - in - law can make this
for him: — RRB --RRB-, seeing that I'm
insulin resistant, and
need to
change up everything in my diet.
That's a big deal
for the estimated 1.5 million people in the United States with Type 1 diabetes because the amount of
insulin they
need at any given moment is always
changing — day to day, hour to hour, even minute to minute.
If you have diabetes and are taking a medication like
insulin, reducing or stopping your carbohydrate intake
for just one day will dramatically
change your medication
needs for that day.
This is because your cat's
insulin needs can
change for a variety of reasons (infection, stress, anorexia, etc.) and also because the curve generated at the vet clinic is influenced by stress hyperglycemia which is a false increase in blood glucose due to the cat's internal reaction to this stress.
Dietary modification (if you can convince the cat to
change) is useful even if the cat
needs insulin, as the higher protein content of diabetic diets
for cats means less work
for the
insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.
Although we would still apply the same protocol
for those on
insulin - we had to watch a bit closer to make sure that our beneficial
changes did not require that less
insulin was
needed.
Many diabetic cats can decrease or even eliminate their
need for insulin, simply by
changing to a high - protein, low - carbohydrate diet.