Predict Seizures In Dogs

Predict Seizures

People who experience seizures periodically have said that their dogs alert them to the onset of one before they know themselves. Now, dogs are specially trained to recognize the early signs before a seize and can signal to their owner when one is coming. This allows the owner plenty of time to prepare for the seizure. Seizure alert dogs can signal an impending seizure to their own up to 45 minutes before a seizure begins.

Parkinson’s Disease Freezing

Parkinson’s Disease patients suffer from more than just stiffness and tremors. They also deal with freezing. This is when their feet freeze, even though the rest of their body is still moving. Because this results in falls, many Parkinson’s Disease patients become afraid to

Researchers across the world have now been studying the ability of dogs to smell prostate cancer in men’s urine.

George isn’t the first dog to do this, and we also know they can sniff out other skin cancers, as well as breast and bladder cancer. There are countless stories about dogs obsessing over a certain part of the body only to later find the owner had cancer.

In 1989 a Canadian woman found out that she had cancer, all because her dog was obsessed with a thigh mole. The dog was so obsessed with it that he even tried to bite it when she woke shorts.

It has only been in the last two decades or so that researchers have delved deeper into the sniffing ability of dogs. One such study, in 2006, found that dogs could be trained to detect cancer from breath samples. After they were trained they had an 88% accuracy rate for detecting breast cancer, and a 99% accuracy rate for detecting lung cancer. They were able to detect it across all stages of the diseases.

Narcolepsy

Someone can fall asleep in the middle of a task, whether it’s driving a car, or cooking over a hot stove. It can result in serious injury, an accident while driving, burns while cooking, or injuries from falling.

Dogs have been trained as service dogs for narcolepsy since 2010. They are able to pick up a scent when an attack is coming. There’s a biochemical change, while we don’t know what it smells like, the dogs do.

In a 2013 study, from a clinic in Madrid, Spain, it was found that two dogs who had undergone training could detect narcolepsy patients from sweat samples. Their accuracy rate was 99%.

Service dogs can assist narcoleptics with a variety of attacks, such as preventing them from falling from a chair during an attack, and protecting them if an attack occurs in public. Most importantly, they can warn five minutes before an attack is coming.

Migraines

Migraines can be debilitating, so having a tip off that one is coming can be the difference between hours (or even days) of unbearable pain or a chance to manage the problem. Luckily, dogs have quite the talent for sensing when a migraine is