Dogs sniff out low blood sugar in diabetes patients

Dogs can act as an effective early-warning system for diabetes patients, scientists have claimed.

Researchers from the University of Bristol found dogs trained to respond to their owners’ hypoglycaemia could alert them to impending lower blood sugars. It was the first academic study to assess whether trained dogs could be reliably used to provide an early-warning system to monitor glycaemia control.

Glycaemia alert dogs were found to accurately and consistently detect the signs of low or high blood sugar in their owners.