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Scottiemom
Oct 19, 2015Nomad
Yeah, like rockhillmanor says, honey doesn't stop a seizure and the low blood sugar is generally the result of a seizure not the cause of the original one. I never had trouble dosing with an oral syringe though. They are short and fat and have a larger opening making it easy to draw the honey into the syringe. My vet gave me several. I would put it in Neal's mouth and push the plunger in slowly so he could eat it as I squirted it. He loved the honey. But I never gave it till the original seizure was over. Neal would be so wiped out and just lay there with his eyes open. After about 15 minutes he would lift his head and attempt to get up. That's when I would dose him and take him out. We always let the seizure runs its course. At his worst, he was having gran mal seizures, then clustering with as many as 13 gran mal seizures in 24 hours. Then it would take a week for him to recover and then it would restart 3 weeks later. He went on pheno and then potassium bromide and would still have break through seizures. Once we start getting his blood sugar up after a seizure the clusters all but stopped and we were able to manage him much better. He lived for another 10 years eventually stopping the seizures altogether.
My son uses the glucose tubes for his dog. They are expensive, but if that works better for you, that's great. I just think it's a good thing to try.
Dale
My son uses the glucose tubes for his dog. They are expensive, but if that works better for you, that's great. I just think it's a good thing to try.
Dale
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