Blood Glucose level in Camels:
Normal blood serum level 80 – 130 mg/dl.
Factors affecting normal levels:
Physiological:
- Age: Younger is higher in glucose level than older.
- Sex: not significant but male more than female.
- Season: winter is more in glucose because of raining season and more grass to eat.
- Dehydration: Hemo-concentration related to hyper-glycaemia ↑RBC = ↑
- Starvation: Fasting for 4 days is not significant to change Glucose level.
- Blood sampling: before or after eating (Not significant).
- Production: Pregnancy shows high Glucose level and decrease after calving in fist 2 week of lactation. Rutting season show hyper-glycaemia.
- Nutrition: high degradable carbohydrates like Molasses, dates, honey, .. make hyper-glycaemia.
- Stress factors: any stress factors especially transportation for long distances show hyper-glycaemia.
- Medication: Glucocorticoids make hyper-glycaemia (Dexa, Flu, methasone).
Pathological:
- Hyper-glycaemia:
(Enterotoxaemia, Haemorrhagic disease, Wry-neck disease, fever).
- Hypo-glycaemia:
(Blood parasites especially Trypanosomiasis, Intestinal parasites, Mycoplasmosis).
Racing Camels:
The blood glucose level increase after any exercise and highly increase after extreme exercise like (Tofheem) and (Racing competition), it continues for few days before return to normal level.
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