Incorporating routine pet care into a child's diabetes self-care plan can significantly improve monitoring of the disease resulting in lower blood glucose levels finds a study. 'Teenagers are one of the most challenging patient populations to treat because of the many psycho-social factors associated with that stage of life' said senior author Olga Gupta assistant professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. 'We learned that instructing families to associate regular pet fish care with the child's standard diabetes care significantly improved their haemoglobin A1C levels.' The study followed the pet attention and diabetes
