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? How to calibrate/ convert Onetouch Verio Flex Meter reading to Cat numbers?

RohitKumar

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I am back with a basic question. I wanted to know How to calibrate/ convert Onetouch Verio Flex Meter reading to Cat numbers? So that I can decide if we have things in control.
Thanks in advance.
 
There is no way to convert human BG meter numbers to a pet meter. Our dosing methods were developed long before the pet meters were heavily marketed, so use the human meter values.

If you can post the blood glucose (BG) readings you are getting, we can help you learn to figure out how your kitty is doing. Most people here have their blood sugar values in a spreadsheet. More information in this post: New Here? How to Help Us Help You
 
One thing you could do, if you really want to know cat numbers, is buy a pet meter and use it occasionally to see the number. What you can’t do with it, however, is try to correlate those readings with any you get on a human meter even if same blood drop. As Wendy said, there is no conversion factor. Each meter works with an electrochemical reaction that takes place in the strip and transmits the electric reading to the meter, where algorithms based *on species specific criteria that is quite different between cat and man* translates it to a displayed number.

It is not a mini lab in your pocket but an approximation of what a lab would say, again based on math that applies only to a single species. Because of variation in accuracy and precision, on circumstances such as temperature, anemia, etc and the species difference in how glucose is stored it’s impossible to translate one to the other. In general in a non-anemic cat the human meter reading using cat blood will give a falsely lower number. But not always and how much lower has huge variation.

Anyone who says they have figured out a conversion factor doesn’t understand how these meters work.
 
Piling on to what has been said above, in lower numbers, the two types of meters are fairly close, but in higher numbers, the pet meters tend to read quite a bit higher. So you can get compare to get general trends, but not exact numbers which is what you need when trying to figure out what to do with the insulin dose.
 
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