Help! Non-diabetic cat HYPO!!!

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Don't panic! 48 is a perfectly fine number for a cat not receiving insulin. Cats tend to run a little lower (at least have lower meter readings) than humans.
 
Yes. As long as your cat is not receiving insulin he/she will not hypo (well, pancreatic cancer can cause hypo, but your cat would be extremely sick as well). The 60 - 150 is for diabetic cats and it leaves a little wiggle room at the bottom end. If I saw a diabetic cat at 48 I would be concerned because they could possible still be dropping.
 
fwiw, i randomly test as many of my furkids as will let me so that i 1. can catch it earlier next time around if someone decides to be extra sweet and 2. so i have a baseline for them. most of mine have been testing in the low 60's but occasionally i get a 40 or 50 something
 
Second what Cindy said...I test all of mine civie and diabetic alike...most run in the 50-60s including Maxwell which is a diet controlled diabetic and recieved his last dose of insulin way back in november of last year...just a couple days ago he tested 55, but he has given me numbers in the 40s if I wake him up to test him. :roll:

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
 
Jennifer and Katie said:
Even though they say 60-150 is the best range?
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That's the ideal range for a diabetic cat. A non-diabetic may normally have lower blood gluocse levels. I doubt a non-diabetic can become hypo anyways.
 
Also there's the rumor that the meters run low at the low end so people won't hypo by accident/complacency, so it could be the actual # is say 60 or whatever, but the meter shows it a bit low. Who knows, but that's why the lower numbers don't scare me the way they used to.
 
MommaOfMuse said:
Second what Cindy said...I test all of mine civie and diabetic alike...most run in the 50-60s including Maxwell which is a diet controlled diabetic and recieved his last dose of insulin way back in november of last year...just a couple days ago he tested 55, but he has given me numbers in the 40s if I wake him up to test him. :roll:

Mel, Maxwell, Musette & The Fur Gang
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Maxwell give your 40s when you wake him up because he figures if he's going to lose sleep, he's gonna try and make sure you do too!

;-)
Carl
 
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