Sentences with phrase «glucose curves at»

Further, by doing glucose curves at home the owner is spared the expense of the vet visit.

Further, a pet owner can save a great of deal of money if they can produce their own glucose curve at home when the veterinarian requests one.

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The main objects of the experiments were to learn whether detectable ketosis exists among Eskimos under natural dietary conditions; the extent to which ketosis develops in fasting and the rate at which it disappears on glucose ingestion; the «carbohydrate tolerance» as indicated by blood sugar curves; and to determine the respiratory metabolism during and after a ketosis - producing fast.

The initial regulation phase of treatment may include several «glucose curves» where a starting dose of insulin is given, and the blood glucose is checked immediately after eating, as well as 4 - 6 more times at 2 - hour intervals to monitor the dogs blood glucose levels throughout the day.

Veterinarians should reevaluate canine patients at appropriate intervals and adjust the dose based on clinical signs, urinalysis results, and glucose curve values until adequate glycemic control has been attained.

Glucose curves can be performed by hospitalizing your cat for the day or by testing at home using a glucometer.

At the peak time (determined by the glucose curve), the cat will be very unresponsive; however, a few minutes to a few hours later he / she will appear normal.

Fructosamine: Because some cat's diabetes seems well controlled at home, but have abnormal glucose levels in the hospital (due to stress), glucose curves may not be sufficient for monitoring these patients.

If insulin is only given once daily, the two meals should be at the time of insulin injection, and at the expected peak effect of the insulin (see «glucose curve» below).

But you will have to fine - tune it at home, based on your cat's individual glucose curve chart.

This will also require frequent blood tests at your veterinarian (e.g., blood glucose curves).

The pet will start its new regimen of food and insulin injections at home for about a week then we have them stay in the hospital for a day to perform a glucose curve.

Glucose Curves are regularly done to evaluate response to treatment and many owners are taught how to do this at home.

Results demonstrated that the incorporation of chromium tripicolinate at 300 and 600 parts per billion in the ration of healthy cats produced small but significant improvements in glucose tolerance as measured by glucose half - life, area under the glucose curve, and absolute glucose concentrations.

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.

Many diabetic cats have survived with a set amount of insulin being administered twice daily with the dosage determined by periodic glucose curves performed at a veterinary clinic if their owners will not, or can not, home test.

This includes feline patients that have their doses determined with glucose curves done at a veterinary hospital.

The only other association that reached statistical significance was between categories of maternal 1 - h glucose and a BMI Z score at 2 years ≥ 85th percentile (χ2 for trend = 5.32, df = 1, P = 0.017), but the overall correlation between maternal glucose during pregnancy and BMI Z score at age 2 years was weak (fasting glucose r = 0.05, P = 0.08; 1 - h glucose r = 0.04, P = 0.22; 2 - h glucose r = 0.03, P = 0.36; and area under the curve r = 0.04, P = 0.18).