Little Beauty stuns doctors by saving Noel from life-threatening coma

YOU Beauty! Doctors believe this adorable pet dog used her nose to save her owner’s life after he fell into a life-threatening coma.

Little Beauty stuns doctors by saving Noel from life-threatening coma

Dr Mortimer O’Connor, is based at Cork’s South Infirmary-Victoria Hospital, said it is the first recorded case of a dog detecting hypoglycaemia (low blood-sugar levels) in a non-diabetic.

The incident happened in July 2006 but details have only just been published in the Irish Journal of Medical Science.

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