Sentences with phrase «monitor diabetic cats»

The concentration of these proteins is not affected by stress, therefore they are often used by veterinary practices to diagnose and monitor diabetic cats.

Monitoring Your Cat At Home Monitoring a diabetic cat at home requires careful attention to a few things.

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To help your diabetic cat live a long and healthy life it is essential to work closely with your veterinarian to set up monitoring guidelines, treatment plans and regular medical evaluations.

Regular monitoring of glucose levels in diabetic cats is important for evaluating the overall status of the disease.

Because each diabetic pet is different, your veterinarian will need to help you determine which monitoring device — such as urine glucose (and ketone) test strips or blood glucose meters — will work best for you and your cat.

If you need to board a diabetic cat with us, there will be a daily glucose monitoring fee even if you do not regularly monitor it at home.

Even diabetic cats can often maintain themselves with a dietary change and some closer monitoring.

Timmy needed to undergo glucose curve testing (the most effective way to monitor and adjust insulin therapy in diabetic cats).

Another reason that a more hands off monitoring schedule for diabetic cats is preferred, is that cats are generally more tolerant to the adverse effects causes by spikes in blood glucose than dogs and people are.

Urine glucose testing is a very crude way to manage a diabetic cat but if home testing as described above is not possible, then urine glucose testing is better than no monitoring at all.

I strongly suggest that all caretakers of diabetic cats home - test to monitor blood glucose levels using a standard glucometer as a matter of routine.

Studies in both dogs and cats have shown that at - home monitoring improves glycemic control and increases the likelihood of obtaining remission in diabetic cats.