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Monitoring your diabetic dog
Changes in insulin requirements
It is not unusual for your dog’s insulin requirements to change even after a long period of stability.
This is most commonly due to:
- weight loss or gain
- changes in exercise regime
- the presence of other diseases
-
progesterone in unspayed female dogs. See Spaying diabetic
female dogs.
- other treatments
It is important to continue to monitor your diabetic dog's progress - even after months or years of
treatment - and consult your veterinarian if there are sudden changes or if anything unusual happens.
Testing urine and blood samples
You may be asked by your veterinarian to regularly check the glucose (and ketone) concentrations in
urine and/or blood samples. This gives an indication of how your dog is doing. Based on these results
your veterinarian might decide to do a serial blood glucose curve to
determine a new insulin dosage.
You should not change the dose of insulin without first consulting your veterinarian.
- Collecting and testing a urine sample
- Collecting and testing a blood sample
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