Cadaverous
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone, I am hoping someone may be able to offer some advice or share experience with glucose in piggies urine. Mousse is two next month, an enthusiastic eater, active, happy and friendly. He weighs around 1.3 kg.
A couple of weeks ago Mousse was a bit lethargic and off his food one day, we made a vets appointment the same day to get him checked. He seemed physically well other than cataracts in both eyes (which is odd as he is young). He did a pee on the vets table, they tested it and it was positive for blood and glucose. They treated him with antibiotics for a urine infection and said he may have diabetes. He responded well, after 7 days of antibiotics his pee tested negative for blood but still positive for glucose (when I say positive, he tested at 20 which is the highest reading on the 0-20 scale). He had a blood test and his blood glucose was 14.6, which the vet said was highish but borderline.
I was told to restrict his diet to low sugar veg, reduce his veg and nugget allowance and increase his hay. I reduced his veg and nuggets by around 30% and made sure he had unlimited fresh hay as always (his cagemate, Butter has been constantly hangry since this diet started). He has been eating romaine, cucumber, celery, aubergine and little bits of herbs on his diet. I tested his pee every three days as instructed and his urine glucose level has been fluctuating from negative reading to 20 (0, 2.5, 20, 10, 2.5, 10 so far) seemingly randomly. He’s not having any extras in his diet at all. After two weeks of this he had another blood test and his blood sugar was 10.2. They have told me to keep testing his pee every three days (one pee test since second blood test and it was high (10)) but the vets don’t really seem to know what’s going on. He is also not losing weight despite a veg/nugget reduction of around 25-30%. I am not sure why his urine glucose is fluctuating so much, I thought it should always be negative :| has anyone had any experience of sugary pee and possible diabetes in piggies? I don’t really know what to make of this and neither do my vets, despite being an exotics specialist...
A couple of weeks ago Mousse was a bit lethargic and off his food one day, we made a vets appointment the same day to get him checked. He seemed physically well other than cataracts in both eyes (which is odd as he is young). He did a pee on the vets table, they tested it and it was positive for blood and glucose. They treated him with antibiotics for a urine infection and said he may have diabetes. He responded well, after 7 days of antibiotics his pee tested negative for blood but still positive for glucose (when I say positive, he tested at 20 which is the highest reading on the 0-20 scale). He had a blood test and his blood glucose was 14.6, which the vet said was highish but borderline.
I was told to restrict his diet to low sugar veg, reduce his veg and nugget allowance and increase his hay. I reduced his veg and nuggets by around 30% and made sure he had unlimited fresh hay as always (his cagemate, Butter has been constantly hangry since this diet started). He has been eating romaine, cucumber, celery, aubergine and little bits of herbs on his diet. I tested his pee every three days as instructed and his urine glucose level has been fluctuating from negative reading to 20 (0, 2.5, 20, 10, 2.5, 10 so far) seemingly randomly. He’s not having any extras in his diet at all. After two weeks of this he had another blood test and his blood sugar was 10.2. They have told me to keep testing his pee every three days (one pee test since second blood test and it was high (10)) but the vets don’t really seem to know what’s going on. He is also not losing weight despite a veg/nugget reduction of around 25-30%. I am not sure why his urine glucose is fluctuating so much, I thought it should always be negative :| has anyone had any experience of sugary pee and possible diabetes in piggies? I don’t really know what to make of this and neither do my vets, despite being an exotics specialist...
I will try and switch him to the sample diet in the post and see if that helps.