Canine Diabetes Treatment
Canine Diabetes – Treatment Options For Your Dog
If it has been determined that your dog has diabetes, getting treated by the veteranarian as soon as possible will help prevent further complications. You may be giving your dog a chance at avoiding both nerve damage and blindness. Standard treatments will do a lot to help your dog’s progress and recovery.
Injecting Insulin
Injections of insulin will be administered to your dog either once or twice a day depending on the dog’s need. Your vet will decide how big of a dose and how often to give them to your dog. There are also insulin tablets which can be taken in place of injections, but not in all dogs.
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At the beginning of the treatment smaller insulin doses are normally administered so that the blood sugar levels can stabilize gradually.
If circumstances are extreme, this process could theoretically require that your dog be hospitalized for a few days. But outpatient treatment is certainly the norm for dogs who are in pretty stable condition.
Within that initial timeframe, the veteranarian will check on your dog’s blood sugar each hour to figure out how big of a dose he will require on an ongoing basis. After determining the proper doses and frequencies of treatment, your vet will have you monitor the dog by giving him urine tests or blood tests.
Dietary Habits
With canine diabetes, nothing is more critical to increasing life expectancy than a proper diet. Actually, healthy eating plays such a central role in treating canine diabetes that the disease could possibly go into complete remission simply from a change to a more proper diet.
A proper diet for a diabetic dog consists of high fiber meals that are low in carbohydrates or have a moderate amount of carbohydrates. A great way to carry this out is by starting to cook your dog’s food on your own at home, including meats and other necessary foods.
Before you decide on a specfic diet, of course you should consult with a vet who specializes in nutrition. You should be aiming to use food as medicine so that you can eventually take your dog off of insulin.
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