U 40 Insulin Syringes | Pet Insulin Syringes

Pet insulin syringes are usually one of the different sizes of U 40 insulin syringes. They commonly come in ½ ml or 1 ml sizes and are calibrated in U 40 insulin units. A U40 syringe is quite handy for injecting your pet and makes treatment of diabetes in animals easy to do at home.  It just takes a little practice to master the skill of giving injections.

The development of veterinarian strengths of insulin has allowed many pet owners to treat their pets using the pet insulin syringes and give their pets a return to health and a longer life.  Diabetes in animals is a growing problem that in previous years was handled by euthanizing the pet.

Diabetes in pets develops in the same way and for the same reasons that humans get diabetes.  Sometimes it is because the pancreas doesn’t secrete enough insulin to deal with blood sugar and other times the animal becomes insulin resistant and no matter how much insulin is secreted it is not enough to do the job of regulating blood sugar.

Veterinary insulin was developed to help manage diabetes in pets and the proper pet insulin syringe makes the job of giving injections easier.  Most pet insulin is of the U 40 insulin type, which means there are 40 units of insulin in one mL of insulin solution. Human insulin is typically of the U 100 type or 100 units of insulin per mL so unless the right syringe is used with the corresponding strength of insulin there can be issues of overdosing or even under-dosing with each injection.  It is possible to do conversions and use U 100 syringes with U 40 insulin, but the safest is to use the right pet insulin syringe that matches the insulin your veterinarian prescribed. So use a U40 syringe with U40 insulin and a U100 syringe with U100 insulin.