Diabetes and Hypoglycemia are diseases that affect millions of people.  Many of these people are children.

Low Blood Sugar or Hypoglycemia can have especially severe consequences.

Symptoms of mild low blood sugar (below 70mg/dL) include:

Sweating

Nervousness, shakiness, and weakness

Extreme hunger and slight nausea

Dizziness and headache

Blurred vision

A fast heartbeat and feeling anxious

Symptoms of moderate low blood sugar (below 40 mg/dL) include:

Inability to concentrate

Confusion and irritability

Slurred speech

Unsteadiness when standing or walking

Muscle twitching

Personality changes, such as anger or crying

Symptoms of severe low blood sugar (usually below 20 mg/dL) include:

Seizure

Loss of consciousness (coma)

Stroke

Death

Children are especially at risk because often times they do not understand what is happening within their own body or how to fix it.  Parents feel helpless and worried sick wondering if their child will wake up in the morning.  This causes the parents to have to wake many times during the night to check their child's Blood Sugar levels.

A Diabetic Alert Dog can alleviate many of these worries.  A fully trained DAD will alert whenever the person's blood sugar is out of normal range.  How a dog is trained will determine that range but many times a normal range is between 90 and 180 mg/dL.  Anything below or above that and the dog will alert.