Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Mascotas diabéticas
Bueno, pues lo último de lo último es hacerle test de azucar en sangre a las mascotas, si sufren de diabetes (¿alguna vez habeis visto en España un perro con diabetes?).
Lo curioso es que los aparatos para hacer análisis de azucar en sangre para humanos no funcionan del todo bien en perros y gatos, así que una empresa ha sacado al mercado un aparato especificamente diseñado para mascotas:
¡Medio millón de perros y gatos con diabetes! ¿Qué les dan de comer?For diabetics, checking blood sugar levels a few times a day is crucial, and it's equally important for the approximately 500,000 dogs and cats that also suffer from diabetes.
Plenty of glucose meters are available for people. Testing sugar levels at home is a pinprick away -- a drop of blood on the meter's testing strip gives an accurate reading within minutes. But it's not so easy for our furry friends.
Pet owners usually make frequent, expensive veterinarian visits to get accurate glucose readings. Or, they use human meters, which are often inaccurate for animals.
So, two companies have developed glucose meters especially for pets. Abbott Laboratories recently launched AlphaTRAK and Animal Diabetes Management, a small private company in Janesville, Wisconsin, sells a meter calibrated specifically for pets.
Parece que los usuarios del nuevo aparato están muchos más tranquilos desde que lo utilizan:
Margo Hupe, diabetic herself, used her own meter on her diabetic dog, but found the results were significantly different from lab tests done by her vet's office. So she switched to Animal Diabetes Management's device.
"It made me a lot more comfortable because I wasn’t guessing any more," she said.
Yo también me quedo mucho más tranquilo por su perro... ;-)
Muchos besos
Moni
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