We are going back to some of the basic questions pet owners may have when they learn their beloved pets have diabetes. For many of our readers this is a refresher. Read on... Maybe you will pick up a pearl! Today, we talk about pet blood glucose monitoring
We are going back to some of the basic questions pet owners may have when they learn their beloved pets have diabetes. Today the topic is insulin.
Going back to the basics is never a bad thing. And after nearly 5 years of writing this newsletter, I sometimes feel really challenged to find new topics. Over the last several weeks, I have received a good amount of emails from people with newly diagnosed diabetics, so I thought that this would be a good time to go back and re-visit the basics of diabetes management in pets.
I get some great questions from clients. They inspire me with article ideas and keep me in tune with diabetic pet owners. I enjoy interacting with our readers, and sometimes the questions are worthy of a newsletter. […]
Some of the questions I get are worth sharing. These are real life questions from our readers. Your emails are the inspiration for most of my articles and certainly the “Ask Dr, Joi” series. Keep ’em coming! […]
Last week we discussed how diabetic pets, especially diabetic dogs, are prone to cataracts. This week we will briefly touch on some of the lesser known eye complications of pet diabetes.
The retina is the back of the eye. Diseases of the retina occur with poor diabetic control in pets and in humans, […]
Diabetic pets are prone to ocular disease. And it’s not just cataracts! It turns out that diabetic pets also get a higher incidence of corneal disease, retinal disease and uveitis. Cataracts are our topic today as they are the most notorious and feared complication of the diabetic dog eye. Next […]
I’ve written in the past about sedatives and anxiety reducing medications for thunderstorms, fireworks and other loud events that induce noise phobia in our pets. […]
I’m the first one to admit that I’m not up on pop culture. I’m not as hip as I once was, if I ever was! After 23 years as a veterinarian, it seems there isn’t enough time in the day to learn all we have to know! […]
There are some diseases I just despise. It’s not that I like any disease, but some just make me want to crawl in a hole. Cushings disease is one of them. Cushings is short for hyperadrenocortisism, a state where the body makes too much steroid, either from a pituitary tumor or from an adrenal tumor. The […]