Health Risks You Share With Your Pet
Your pet may be more like you than you realize, with health problems being the one common trait you both share. Over weight cats and dogs are both prone to developing diabetes and as like humans changes in diet and weight loss can bring big benefits. Older animals especially fall into this category as it seems a life time of risk factors finally play out to be true.
Losing weight for animals can be difficult as it is with humans. The owner, for the most part decides what kind of food and how much food the animal gets to eat each day. For over weight cats many of them respond well to a high protein diet. Lowering the carbohydrate intake lowers the amount of glucose for the body to deal with and can have the effect of evening out blood sugar levels.
Besides diet and weight loss changes, increasing exercise each day can help in increasing weight loss. It also helps in evening out blood sugar by burning glucose as fuel for the muscles involved in exercise and provides more room for the body to re-fill those muscle cells with glucose.
Insulin injections are also a part in controlling diabetes. Working with your veterinarian, you will come up with a plan for helping your pet. There are a number of insulin formulations out there and dogs and cats seem to do best with those made from beef or pork. Many of these are a U 40 strength insulin and using a U 40 syringe makes giving the correct dose easy.
U 40 insulin syringes are calibrated to match the U 40 strength insulin and using other syringes will involve converting from the U 40 strength insulin to whatever the other syringe is calibrated for.
Controlling pet diabetes involves diet, weight loss and insulin injections, just as it does for many humans.
