Another hypoglycemia attack - Am I doing something Wrong?

[sims822257]

Originally Posted by Shanatink

Make sure he is not getting too cold at night. Chloe's 2 comas both happend during the night. The first was because she went too long without eating and the second was because she got cold(I felt like the worse mother ever. I had a blanket in her crate but apparently she would just lay on top of it). If they get cold they use a lot of energy to shiver to try and keep warm so it uses up all their body's "fuel". So once I found this out I kept chloe in a larger crate at night and kept food and water and a heating pad on one half of the crate that way if she was too warm she could get off of the heating pad and go to the other side of the crate. I really felt so bad that I had to learn things the hard way with chloe. BUt after I got the crate situated and fed her every 3 hours we never had a problem again and when she was a little over 6 months of age she started sleeping with us in our bed at night and I didnt have to worry about feeding her every 3 hours anymore. She just eats whenever she wants.

Shana -

Thanks so much for the information. You are the first person to mention the cold thing. We do keep our house very cold because we live in Florida and it is hot outside so maybe that is something I can change for him. As far as feeding him every three hours - that is hard because I have to work so it is just not do-able. I can come home and feed him at lunch but it is more like 3 times a day and that’s all I can do. Plus I just started crating him today because he was just being so bad about peeing and pooping where ever he wanted to. I am happy to know that I am not alone though. So I assume that Chloe grew out of this and hopefully mine will too huh? I was also under the assumption that it was because he was small but he just cleared 4 pounds and I know many others have small babies who have not had this problem. Any way… thanks for the information – Yorkie talk is the best!

[Shanatink]

Originally Posted by sims822257

Shana -

Thanks so much for the information. You are the first person to mention the cold thing. We do keep our house very cold because we live in Florida and it is hot outside so maybe that is something I can change for him. As far as feeding him every three hours - that is hard because I have to work so it is just not do-able. I can come home and feed him at lunch but it is more like 3 times a day and that’s all I can do. Plus I just started crating him today because he was just being so bad about peeing and pooping where ever he wanted to. I am happy to know that I am not alone though. So I assume that Chloe grew out of this and hopefully mine will too huh? I was also under the assumption that it was because he was small but he just cleared 4 pounds and I know many others have small babies who have not had this problem. Any way… thanks for the information – Yorkie talk is the best!

Im so glad I could be helpful.

Since you cant watch him while you work just make sure he has food available to eat while your gone and I would put a little karosyrup in his water also. My girl Chloe was 8 oz when I first got her and now she is 2.9 lbs and she is a year and a half old. She grew out of it and I am not exactly sure when because after the first month that I had her(she was 3 months old when I got her) and after the hard lessons I learned I made sure she ate and was warm so we never had an issue again so she may have grown out of hypoglycemia sooner than 6 months. It wasnt until a little after 6 months that I let her sleep with us and I stopped waking up in the middle of the night to make sure she ate.

But anyways I definetly think your little one will grow out of it. Just keep a heating pad on low temp in his crate and keep it under a towel or blanket and then what I did was I kept a pee pad on the other side (even though a lot of the time chloe peed anywhere she wanted in the crate ) and then I had a tray that hung on the door of her crate that held food and water. I got the large crate(it comes with the food tray) at walmart for $20-$30 I dont remember exactly how much, and then I got the heating pad there too.

[TeddyBear]

This is great information!! Starsky had no problems when he was little, of course he was a husky 2.5 lbs at 9 weeks. I am getting a little girl next week who is only a little over a lb at 9 weeks. So I am a little worried about this. I do work also, but I am separating her in a crate from the other dogs while I am gone. I am not worried about her getting cold though. It is hot here and my ac doesn't work real well. I will get her her own food and water dish and maybe put some karo syrup in her water. I hope she does okay. I am a little nervous.

[princesspippi]

I would put quite a bit of nutrical on my finger and put it in his mouth before I went to bed at night and before I went to work in the morning. I like to feed my dogs dry food, but if I had one with this kind of problem I would give them some kind of wet food too. I know that there are issues with Cesar's food, but I would get some if it and feed it to him too. I've had a dog that kept getting hypoglycemia. I also heard of giving them boiled chicken. It's just trial and error until you find something that works. I can tell you are really trying hard. It's so upsetting when your baby gets sick.

[sims822257]

Thanks so much you guys - you have all given me such great information and advice! I truly appreciate it!