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Know what local prescription laws are with regards to obtaining insulin and syringes, International and a State by State listing for the US.

Insulin

Insulin is on prescription. Lantus is becoming the most commonly used insulin for cats now, but many veterinarians still prescribe Caninsulin and even Minidab (tablets to stimulate the insulin production). Lots of vets are not updated on FD, and unfortunately there obviously are still vets out there who give bad (or very bad) prognosis for cats that are diagnosed FD. PZI is not available.

 Syringes

Syringes are on prescription in Sweden.
There are only syringes with whole unit marks on the Swedish market. Syringes with half unit marks can be imported according to the Swedish Customs:
"Import of medicaments via postal services or equivalent, is allowed from a country within EEA under the following conditions:

- The medicament is for the receiver's personal use
- The medicament is approved in the other EES-country and has been obtained in a pharmacy or equivalent in that country
- The medicament is approved and not on prescription in Sweden, or, for prescripted medicaments, has been prescribed by a certificated prescriber within the EEA

Each consignment of such kind can contain the amount of the medicament corresponding to one year's consumption at the maximum. The receiver must be able to confirm that these prerequisites are met." (freely translated)

More information is available here:
http://www.tullverket.se/tullguiden/tul ... 08283.html

Ask your veterinarian to write a certificate, or a prescription that states that you should have syringes with half units. Problem might be finding a company that will ship to Sweden though.

 Other equipment

Common glucometer is Bayer Contour. All medical supplies (meter, lancets, syringes, test sticks etc) are sold in Apoteket (the pharmacy).

Home testing is commonly taught direct at the diagnosis, but not by all veterinarians.

 Food

Veterinarians recommend veterinarian diabetic food (Hill’s, Royal Canin etc), both canned and dry.

The awareness of right feeding of FD cats is quite high in Swedish cat forums, many people object to the recommendations from the vet to feed veterinarian diabetes food. There are people who know about Dr. Hodgkin's and embrace her knowledge in general, but not many seem familiar with TR.

There is a very good commercial food; Mjau. Contains no carbs, is cheap and sold almost everywhere. Some cats may get stomach problems with the canned Mjau, then the tetra packs usually works fine. Some of them contain a bit sugar though (in the jelly), so be sure to read the labels and not pick those. Another source for low carbohydrate food is Bozita at www.zooplus.se

If you prefer a larger selection of foods Zooplus Germany or UK is suggested. We have a temporary list of foods available in our Heads to Tail thread which had been checked for low carbohydrates. Ordering through our affiliate program you will receive a slight discount.

 

https://diabeticcatcare.com/DCCCOK/Affiliateprogram.htm

BARF: there is an excellent site about ‘Real Cat Food’:
http://devonrex.se/kokbok/

and a forum on this matter, where you can get help and information if you want to start feeding raw food:
http://naturalcat.forum24.se/naturalcat-forum-1.html
 
 
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