When to give insulin shots for cats
How to Give Insulin Injections to Diabetic Pets
hi my name is Kristen I'm a technician
here at Union Lake veterinary hospital
and this is my cat Cruz and today I'm
going to show you guys how to give
insulin injections the things you're
gonna need are going to be your bottle
of insulin that's prescribed by your
veterinarian and the appropriate insulin
syringe if it's a u-100 insulin using a
u-100 syringe so u4t insulin using a u4t
syringe so your insulin will be kept in
the fridge they'll take it out of the
fridge when you're ready to use it to
mix it we never want to shake the
insulin we want to roll it gently
between our hands let's roll it like
that we're then gonna take our syringe
take the cap off and insert it into the
bottle here we're gonna draw back past
the number of units that you want so if
I wanted five I'm gonna pull back past
the five and then push it back up so if
we don't get any air bubbles in our
syringe and then we'll take that out and
as to what we're gonna give for the
injection the next step is going to be
to kind of give the injection in the
area by the shoulder blades here so we
kind of want to rotate where we give the
injection every time so kind of think
about as a face of a clock so you have
one injection at one the next one you
know could be at two three four five is
kind of rotating around that area where
you give it gonna be once or twice a day
we don't want to cause any scar tissue
so we're gonna kind of tent the skin by
the shoulder blades here we're going to
then make a little pocket and just
insert our needle and then push the
plunger in to inject the insulin you
wanna make sure your pet has a full meal
prior to giving the insulin injection
your pet does not eat its full meal make
sure you give your veterinarian a call
so they can advise you on what to do
with the dose of insulin if you have any
questions or concerns don't hesitate to
give us a call thank you guys for
watching and we'll see you next time
you
