Using freestyle LibreLink 2 on my dog.

[Yellows1]

My dog has been diagnosed with diabetes and is now wearing a LibreLink freestyle 2 sensor and has to be injected with insulin twice a day. She has had it on 3 days and every time I’ve scanned the sensor it always reads high level and says it’s 27.8 . If it’s high and out of range is it normal for the reading to always be the same?

 

[Lucyr]

The libre only reads up to 27.8, it’s also usually less accurate at extreme ranges and calibrated on humans, they advise not for use on animals though I know some do use on animals, so would reccomend to check with fingerprick meter

 

[Yellows1]

Thank you for your reply, I thought it might have been something to do with my phone.

 

[Amity Island]

My dog has been diagnosed with diabetes and is now wearing a LibreLink freestyle 2 sensor and has to be injected with insulin twice a day. She has had it on 3 days and every time I’ve scanned the sensor it always reads high level and says it’s 27.8 . If it’s high and out of range is it normal for the reading to always be the same?

Hi,

I don't know about how the libre works with dogs, but will the reading be accurate? Is glucose in dogs distributed the same. Is it like for like or is a conversion required?

 

[Leadinglights]

I looked after a diabetic dog for a couple of weeks and had to collect a urine sample each morning and test with a dip stick and depending on the result give a certain amount of insulin, morning and evening, timing seemed pretty critical as she would go hypo without food at a particular time. A few scary occasions when I had to treat with a teaspoon of honey.
No blood testing then.