RVC Pet Diabetes App

Pets with diabetes may be treated very nicely leading to an excellent high quality of life. The greatest results are achieved whenever you as a pet owner report all issues that are necessary indicators of success or failure. The diabetes management can be fine-tuned on the basis of those, avoiding complications related to high and low blood sugars, as properly as the prices associated with such problems.

This free app was designed by pet diabetes professional Dr Stijn Niessen of the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK. He designed the app for 2 primary reasons:

1. To present diabetic pet house owners with a convenient free tool to actively take part within the medical management of their beloved pet;

2. To enable the gathering of strictly anonymous data on diabetic pets and their management. This allows diabetic pet homeowners to actively participate in research and assist develop higher remedy choices for pets with diabetes.

The Diabetes Log function of the app allows customers to document, and easily share with their veterinarian, all those parameters which are essential to keep a watch on in terms of pet diabetes administration; they embrace: clinical signs like weight, urge for food, thirst and urination adjustments, as nicely as urine and blood sugar values (for these homeowners who carry out residence blood or urine glucose testing).

The app also features the next:

• a medication reminder function

• a reminder to change the insulin injection sites (avoiding irritation of areas too incessantly used)

• a scientifically validated software which calculates and displays high quality of life

• a scientifically validated software to score your pet’s medical signs

• a tool to calculate the variety of energy your diabetic pet likely needs

• a device to calculate the exact quantity of meals your diabetic pet doubtless needs

• plenty of space to enter and keep save useful information (e.g. contact particulars of your veterinarian, essential medical historical past, questions on your veterinarian, and so on.)

• visualisation of tendencies (using graphs), together with modifications in thirst, weight, fructosamine, average blood sugar values, urine ketones or sugar values, etc.

• links to useful pet diabetes videos

• a simple “export” function enabling the sharing of entered info and graphs with anybody fascinated, including your veterinarian.

So, take control of your pet’s diabetes and start logging entries into the Diabetes Log. This will maximise your probabilities to realize the very best end result, together with your veterinarian. Life is difficult enough, let the Royal Veterinary College Pet Diabetes App be your private assistant to take extra good care of your furry member of the family (and mechanically help pet diabetes research along the way!).

Dr Stijn Niessen – Senior Lecturer – Royal Veterinary College –University of London – United Kingdom

This App was developed with the help of the Rumba Foundation - www.therumbafoundation.org.uk

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