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Re: New Member Margaret and Lucy
Margaret,
It's possible you had either too little or too much blood on the strip; when that happens, some of the meters can give you a false reading. It's also possible that the dry kibble did something about getting Lucy's bg's up, and it may also be possible she has some rebound going.
You've done the test with the solution and the meter is fine, so we can leave that out. In order to make most dry food, there has to be more carbohydrates in in than there is in wet. Most dry food goes through what they call an extruding process; this is how they get it into the little shapes and sizes that they do. To make dry food like this means more carbs in it.
Exercise (going for a walk, playing, etc.) mostly does bring bg's down. For some, it can make them go higher, though.
When you give out things like the turkey, the broccoli and the cauliflower, you're handing out "treats" that don't have a lot of sugar and/or carbs in them. That means they should do little to nothing about raising bg's. They're low in calories too and that's why you see dieters all smiles about these foods.
When someone has diabetes, all of the food needs to be "accounted" for; if more food is eaten than he/she has used insulin to cover, then there are going to be higher bg's.
If the handful of kibble isn't a part of Lucy's meals, then it sure is possible that it made her bg's go up. When you need to schedule a "middle" meal because you're using that to fend off a low that you know will happen around the time the insulin's "peaking" (working hardest), you mostly need to "borrow" that meal by taking a little away from breakfast and dinner and that's what it's made up of.
Let's say a dog with diabetes was to have a total daily food intake of 4 cups of dry food. You'd be splitting that as 2 for breakfast and 2 for dinner. But let's also say that this dog we're talking about has a tendency to go too low around the time his/her insulin works the hardest. So we need to take a bit to make up some type of small meal for him/her to have a bit before that insulin "peaks".
We would take something like 1/4 cup away from the breakfast and 1/4 cup away from the dinner food to make up a "middle" meal of a total of 1/2 cup of dry food for it. That would make his/her breakfast and dinner amounts 1 3/4 cups of food at those times, and the "borrowed" middle meal being made up of a 1/4 cup from both breakfast and dinner.
Giving him or her the 2 cups at breakfast and dinner and then giving the additional 1/2 "middle" meal food would mean higher bg's because there's more food than the diet calls for. "Borrowing" the 1/4 cup from breakfast and another 1/4 cup from dinner doesn't add more food--it just "distributes" it a little differently.
As long as you are able to test Lucy easily now, I would try to start checking her before her meals and about 2 hours after them. I'd check her before and after any exercise like taking a walk so you can see if exercise makes her bg's go higher or lower.
If, by doing more regular checking, you see that Lucy's going back to a low point similar to the one you saw this afternoon, then I would think about possible rebound. But if Lucy got an "extra", not part of her daily diet handful of kibble before taking a walk, then I'd believe it's the extra food which makes for the higher bg's.
Hope this might help!
Kathy
Margaret,
It's possible you had either too little or too much blood on the strip; when that happens, some of the meters can give you a false reading. It's also possible that the dry kibble did something about getting Lucy's bg's up, and it may also be possible she has some rebound going.
You've done the test with the solution and the meter is fine, so we can leave that out. In order to make most dry food, there has to be more carbohydrates in in than there is in wet. Most dry food goes through what they call an extruding process; this is how they get it into the little shapes and sizes that they do. To make dry food like this means more carbs in it.
Exercise (going for a walk, playing, etc.) mostly does bring bg's down. For some, it can make them go higher, though.
When you give out things like the turkey, the broccoli and the cauliflower, you're handing out "treats" that don't have a lot of sugar and/or carbs in them. That means they should do little to nothing about raising bg's. They're low in calories too and that's why you see dieters all smiles about these foods.
When someone has diabetes, all of the food needs to be "accounted" for; if more food is eaten than he/she has used insulin to cover, then there are going to be higher bg's.
If the handful of kibble isn't a part of Lucy's meals, then it sure is possible that it made her bg's go up. When you need to schedule a "middle" meal because you're using that to fend off a low that you know will happen around the time the insulin's "peaking" (working hardest), you mostly need to "borrow" that meal by taking a little away from breakfast and dinner and that's what it's made up of.
Let's say a dog with diabetes was to have a total daily food intake of 4 cups of dry food. You'd be splitting that as 2 for breakfast and 2 for dinner. But let's also say that this dog we're talking about has a tendency to go too low around the time his/her insulin works the hardest. So we need to take a bit to make up some type of small meal for him/her to have a bit before that insulin "peaks".
We would take something like 1/4 cup away from the breakfast and 1/4 cup away from the dinner food to make up a "middle" meal of a total of 1/2 cup of dry food for it. That would make his/her breakfast and dinner amounts 1 3/4 cups of food at those times, and the "borrowed" middle meal being made up of a 1/4 cup from both breakfast and dinner.
Giving him or her the 2 cups at breakfast and dinner and then giving the additional 1/2 "middle" meal food would mean higher bg's because there's more food than the diet calls for. "Borrowing" the 1/4 cup from breakfast and another 1/4 cup from dinner doesn't add more food--it just "distributes" it a little differently.
As long as you are able to test Lucy easily now, I would try to start checking her before her meals and about 2 hours after them. I'd check her before and after any exercise like taking a walk so you can see if exercise makes her bg's go higher or lower.
If, by doing more regular checking, you see that Lucy's going back to a low point similar to the one you saw this afternoon, then I would think about possible rebound. But if Lucy got an "extra", not part of her daily diet handful of kibble before taking a walk, then I'd believe it's the extra food which makes for the higher bg's.
Hope this might help!
Kathy
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