How your dog can smell a diabetic attack before it strikes

[redrevis]

At least the BBC article wasn't full of incorrect and dangerous medical inaccuracies like the Sun's version of it:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4331912/Dog-wins-Hero-Pet-of-the-Year.html

Type 1 diabetes, which causes sufferers to have sudden hypoglycaemic attacks if blood sugar levels reach dangerously low or high levels.

If they are not treated with insulin quickly enough the lack of oxygen to the brain can cause them to fall into a coma.

Oh dear 🙄

 

[Northerner]

Here's The Sun's version of the 'dog saved my life twice' story that I posted from the BBC:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4331912/Dog-wins-Hero-Pet-of-the-Year.html

See how many glaring errors you can spot! 😱

(brought to you via http://www.shootuporputup.co.uk/2012/05/the-sun-does-diabetes/ ) 🙂

 

[redrevis]

I even submitted a comment on the sun article, pointing out the errors and guess what, the moderators didn't approve it. Shock horror! 😱

 

[Ellie Jones]

There are several factors that happens when a Newspaper Reports a story!

Firstly the Reporter themselves is likely to have very rudimentary knowledge of diabetes... They are asked to write an article they will know what word count and column space etc and they are totally dependant on the individual they are writing about for correct information!

As the reporter writes their article out, they will first collect information from the couple, write a daft, the check out if they need anything clarified or more detail, phone the couple to ask for clarification/further details.. The redo their draft, then either phone or e-mail the daft to the couple to check through to ensure details are correct! Correction and rechecking is done, and once the couple say 'that's fine' then it's published!

Now I know this, as this is what happened When our Story about my two saving Les, happened and my almost second newspaper article which didn't get published due to I wasn't happy with the details!

So glaring mistakes etc are the one's that should know better (the couple) not the reporter who wrote the article!

 

[Northerner]

...So glaring mistakes etc are the one's that should know better (the couple) not the reporter who wrote the article!

Erm, so journalists never get their facts wrong or muddled and editors never publish unverified 'facts'? I think not...🙄

 

[trophywench]

Some of you know/know of Patti, one of the Admins on another diabetes forum. She's a member here too. She agreed to do a magazine article once when 'Sweet' magazine started.

She got in a lot of important points - re testing and such like, amongst other things.

The published article didn't have anywhere near the impact she was hoping for ... there were no words there which she hadn't actually said - but they had missed out quite a lot ........

Funnily enough I went to a DUK meeting quite recently where we were asked 'Do you want this? If so, why do you want it?' and when the meeting notes were circulated, some words I'd uttered were given an airing - OK let's be honest, I deliberately chose them to make an impact so that bit obviously worked LOL - but it sort of came out as if that was my only point and nobody else agreed. It wasn't because I had agreed with what others had said, but the 'reporter' said I was the only person who felt like that. I disagree - I believed then and still do now, that the rest of the group tacitly agreed with my point, the same as I tacitly agreed with many of theirs. Sigh.