blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

xXx Cat xXx — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:38:17 GMT

Hi,

Took her with me to work today and the senior vet decided against bloods as she is being fed dry wd which has a high glycemic index and may not trigger a surge in insulin. She appears well and healthy so gonna get a urine sample and go from there.

Thanks again for your help

Tracy

xXx

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:41:03 GMT

hahahaha - nobody is immune to being a plank......

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Steph Worsley — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:27:18 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

What can I say - it was a busy day...will teach me not to skim through a thread but to read it properly next time!

I'll go away now - just pretend I wasn't here.....

[/quote]

I didn't even click who it was that recommended fructosamine till you said that Gillian!!

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:00:19 GMT

What can I say - it was a busy day...will teach me not to skim through a thread but to read it properly next time!

I'll go away now - just pretend I wasn't here.....

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Steph Worsley — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:23:31 GMT

fingers crossed it was just a freaky thing but keep us posted xx

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

bongo — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:07:16 GMT

Hope bloods come back ok, keep us informed!

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

xXx Cat xXx — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:04:26 GMT

Thanks for your help. I dont belive she has DM as I would expect a double figure reading that close to eatting but a little concerned so I have arranged to run a general health profile tommorow at work and to get a urine sample.

The blood came directly from her ear pinna so there was no delay in testing the blood.

She is my special girl as I hand reared her from birth having resusitated her 3 times and nearly given up on her so I may just be being a paranoid owner.

Not connected but when she was 5 weeks old I woke up to finding her collapsed and just going blue so rushed her off to work and nothing was diagnosed after a quick ultrasound of her abdominal cavity she was given vetergesic and 20 mins later was up and running around again like nothing had happened.

Will let you know what the results are tommorow and thank you again.

Tracy

xXx

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Steph Worsley — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:37:58 GMT

I certainly would not be thinking DM with this cat since the sample is low and not high so fructosamine will be no help at all.

I would def run full profile to check everything else do a cystocentesis to get sterile urine sample so can send away for culture as well as dip/SG and then possible do some imaging if you are concerned.

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Tracy Windler RVN — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:49:57 GMT

Its probably the ovvious thing, but how old was the blood sample? I know that our machine would throw up a false low BG if the blood was even an hour or so old.

But also, surely Polydypsia is a sign of high BG, so the two would not correlate??

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11:45 GMT

a fructosamine is likely to be more useful than a glucose curve for diagnosing DM - they are notoriously unrealible, especially in cats.

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:10:56 GMT

have u run a full glucose curve to get a full pic ?

Re: blood glucose @3.8 1 hour after feeding

Steph Worsley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:51:17 GMT

Hmmmm I would prob say run full bloods on her to see if there is anything else going on there such as liver issues etc. Some liver disease (if i remember right) can cause hypoglycaemia....we recently had a hypoglycaemic beast in but can't remember what we found....can check tomorrow for you.