Meet Jedi, the dog who watches over his diabetic best friend every night while the family sleeps

While the Nuttall family were sleeping peacefully, Jedi did everything in his power to wake up a little boy's parents to alert them his blood-sugar levels were low.

Seven-year-old Luke was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was just two years old and while most children are afraid of the boogeyman, this boy's fear is that his blood sugar will rise or fall too rapidly.

Luke's Star Wars pal, Jedi, is trained to alert US parents, Donnie and Kevin Nuttall, to any emergencies in his glucose levels.

Ms Nuttall, has to check his blood sugar levels 8-10 times a day and has to wake up every couple of hours at night to check her son's levels.

On March 4, only five minutes since Ms Nuttall had tucked her little boy in, Jedi jumped on and off the bed Luke shared with his parents.

The exhausted mother rolled over and glanced at Luke's Dexcom device and saw his glucose level was at 100, a stable number, and tried to go back to sleep.

Jedi decided to lay on top of Ms Nuttall and stayed there until she woke up to examine her son's glucose monitor.

To her surprise the reading was normal, but Jedi wouldn't let her walk away and he bowed continuously, doing exactly as he was trained to do if he sensed Luke's blood sugar levels had gotten too low.

Ms Nuttall realised that Jedi knew that something was terribly wrong.

She pricked her son's finger and received a blood sugar level that was failing fast and almost half as high as the one on the monitor read.

The quick-thinking mother woke her son and gave him a glucose tablet and sat there monitoring the shockingly low number on the screen.

Jedi often sleeps beside Ms Nuttall and her husband and is trained to wake either of them immediately when he smells Luke's blood sugar suddenly drop or rise.

Ms Nuttall took a photo of this moment to show to the reality she faces everyday.

The photo has been shared almost 200,000 times on Facebook and touched the hearts of many.

"By Jedi's behavior, I guarantee he was dropping fast," Nuttall wrote.

"Luke was laying right next to me, just inches from me, and without Jedi I would have had no idea that he was dropping out of a safe range.

"This is a picture of a Jedi saving his boy. Amidst a disease that does everything in its power to make life so much harder, this is a picture of loyalty and love and perseverance.

"A reminder that we will not let diabetes win, that we will never give up, and that we will always fight for our children," she wrote.

Jedi alerts the family up to eight times daily and his help has been a relief for the entire family and the majority of the time it is during the night, when the entire family is asleep.

Ms Nuttall spoke with Inside Edition exclusively and told them that Luke can range anywhere between 40 and 400, and he does not show any outward signs until he reaches below 20.

"At 20, he'll just fall to the ground and cry," Nuttall said, "or he'll say, 'I can't feel my body,' or 'I don't know what's happening.'"

The loving mother also said that while Luke's blood sugar level of 57 was no real cause of concern at the time, Jedi is trained to prevent her son's blood sugar levels from reaching dangerous levels continuously.

Jedi was adopted from the Canine Hope for Diabetics in California and the family have had Jedi since he was an 11-month-old puppy.

He is trained to recognise change in blood sugar levels by smelling changes in Luke's chemical composition from as far as across a playground.

If Luke's blood levels become too low, Jedi will bring the blood sugar checking device to Ms Nuttall and bow.

If it is too high, Jedi will bring the device to Nuttall and wave.

Dogs, as we know, have an incredible sense of smell and under these circumstances, Jedi can judge Luke's health better than his parents and the high tech monitoring machinery.

Not only does Jedi save the life of his boy, Ms Nuttall said they are "two are best friends who have so much fun together".

She also said the dog can make Luke laugh almost instantaneously, even when he is crying and seems to find the family's lost belongings.

Ms Nuttall told the publication that when she is away from Luke, she wears a Nightscout, a watch designed by other parents of Type-1 Diabetic children that allows her to monitor his blood sugar levels from afar.

She also communicates with Luke's school nurse 2-6 times a day to discuss meals and blood sugar levels.

Ms Nuttall also is blessed with two other sons, 14 and 12, who have the ability to give Luke shots of insulin when his levels are low.

This incredible mother has an incredibly difficult job and said she took the photo to give people an insight of what she does every single day.

"It's very easy to feel alone in a world that doesn't understand all that somebody with type 1 diabetes goes through on a daily basis.

She has created a Facebook community page and website to create awareness about a disease that desperately needs a cure.

According to this website, Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease where the body attacks and destroys the insulin producing cells in the pancreas.

There is currently no cure for it and it is not something you can grow out of over time, it is an irreversible and life-long condition.