This Dog Can Be Endus When There Are People Whose Glucose Is Low

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JAKARTA - When Butter - the name of a dog - is kissing someone, not just because they are spoiled. But much more important than that. Butter is detecting a person's low sugar levels.

For Stella▁hukum, Butter is a savior. Chew, who has diabetes, will be greatly helped when her sugar levels drop - when she doesn't even notice it.

Quoted from Channel News Asia, Monday, November 14, Butter is trained to identify a unique odor thatlaw emits, a type 1 diabetic as she begins to experience hypoglycemics, meaning that glucose levels are low.

Butter will then▁lukat and continue until Chew manages to eat a little sugar. It can also give him a sweet drink that will increase his sugar levels when needed.

When the hypoglycemia stage was the most severe, law admitted that it would sweat very hard.

"You really feel like you're dying. And that's a very scary feeling," he said.

"Sometimes at that stage, you can't even hold back, you can't even get out of bed. You can't even get sugar for yourself," he continued.

He added that even if someone is around and willing to help, the patient may not be able to circulate because they can't think.

"When we have episodes of hypoglycemia, our bodies make a smell. So, it's all about telling the dog if you smell this smell, tell me," he said.

So that a dog can identify the smell, which it says is produced when the stress hormone is activated and the body breaks the fat, it is trained.

In order for this to happen, the patient must collect saliva samples on tissue paper when experiencing hypoglycemia and freeze them in the bag. The bag is then used to train dogs to recognize the smell.