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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Dogs are often called man's best friend, but for diabetics they can also be lifesavers.
Dr. Jonathan Beach's new chocolate lab, Banting, arrives at his home in Altona. But this puppy is much more then a pet -- Banting is his lifeline. He is a diabetic alert dog. "He can scent my lows, or changes in blood sugars from five miles," Beach said.
"They can actually detect a rise or a fall up to an hour before you know it or your meter would catch it," said Cheri Campbell with Warren Retrievers, a Virginia-based non-profit that trained Banting and hundreds of labs each year for invisible diseases like diabetes, PTSD and autism. "He will just paw him or a nose nudge to let him know there is a problem," Campbell said.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/251446/250/Diabetes-dog-detects-low-Glucose-levels
Dr. Jonathan Beach's new chocolate lab, Banting, arrives at his home in Altona. But this puppy is much more then a pet -- Banting is his lifeline. He is a diabetic alert dog. "He can scent my lows, or changes in blood sugars from five miles," Beach said.
"They can actually detect a rise or a fall up to an hour before you know it or your meter would catch it," said Cheri Campbell with Warren Retrievers, a Virginia-based non-profit that trained Banting and hundreds of labs each year for invisible diseases like diabetes, PTSD and autism. "He will just paw him or a nose nudge to let him know there is a problem," Campbell said.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/251446/250/Diabetes-dog-detects-low-Glucose-levels
this is a great story