![]() That’s why we check his blood sugar overnight, every night, and we have every tool, every monitor, and have spent every day of the last 3 years training Jedi to alert to highs and lows, because Type 1 diabetes is relentless and we need as much help as we can get,” Dorrie said. “No alarms were going off, no one was checking blood, no one was thinking about diabetes, and it’s in those moments when our guards are down, when we are just living life, when we let our minds drift from diabetes, that it has the upper hand-and things can get scary very fast…,” Dorrie wrote in a Facebook post which has since gone viral. READ MORE: Can pets sense pregnancy? It’s ‘very possible,’ says animal expert On Thursday, in the dead of night, when Luke’s mother Dorrie was fast asleep, the child’s levels dropped. To help keep tabs on Luke’s levels, the Nuttall family acquired a dog trained to monitor blood sugar through smell. ![]() Luke Nuttall was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was two-years-old, and his blood sugar levels need to be monitored around the clock. ![]() A diabetic alert dog named Jedi may have saved the life of a sleeping seven-year-old boy after the black Labrador alerted its owners that the child’s blood sugar levels dropped to dangerously low levels in the middle of the night. ![]()
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