When to give insulin shots for cats
How To Give My Cat An Insulin Injection
I've got my insulin here I've taken it
just out of the fridge so insulin is a
very fragile molecule we don't shake
this bottle up and even storing is
important so we're gonna we keep it off
the door cuz sometimes a rattling of the
door if you have teenagers always in out
of the fridge it might actually disrupt
the insulin so just even a gentle kind
of inversion putting the insulin upon my
hand and just kind of holding it 1 2 3
that's enough mixing up I'm gonna take
my insulin syringe so insulin is an
interesting substance we dose it off of
units and I have 2 different types of
insulin syringes I have you 40 and you
100 syringes and all that tells me as
the manufacturer says that I have 40
units per mill on my insulin or I have a
higher units per mill CAD insulin is you
40 insulin and human insulin is you 100
so it's always important to make sure
you have the right syringe so I've got
my syringe here it's always a sterile
brand new one every time and we can see
it's a very very tiny mosquito bite size
needle it's a very small poke so I'm
gonna put my needle in the bottle
there's easy a little bit of air in
there I just kind of squished that in
and I pull my plunger down and if I
happen to have some air in there I'm
gonna tap them out because we're
injecting under the skin air bubbles
don't are not going to harm my cat but
air bubbles in my syringe will affect
how much insulin I'm giving and when in
doubt cuz we're usually talking about
very small volumes you can always draw
extra extra insulin into your syringe
and then push it back into the bottle so
in this case if my cat was on two units
of insulin I've drawn it down to the
five insulin Mart or a five unit mark
I'm gonna go four three two so I bought
Lance I'm ready to go I'm gonna take
down I'm gonna put my bottle back on the
counter and then if you don't have a cat
quite so wonderful as mr. bigglesworth
and you won't catch your cat so I've got
my insulin ready to go I've got my cat
I've seen him eat
so we can inject the insulin anywhere
under the skin
we usually avoid head face and lower
limbs so cats have all this wonderful
loose skin so what I do is I feel right
between my cat's shoulder blade there's
a little kind of a ridge there I use my
finger to scoop up a nice big pocket of
skin and then what I can do is either
push the barrel forward or I pull the
skin back and I've already injected him
and see he didn't even notice and then
once I'm comfortably in I just wished I
didn't slit in and I let go
and then
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