Gestational Diabetes Test Preparation

Gestational Diabetes Test Preparation. Diabetes Mellitus or also known as diabetes is kind of metabolic disease which shows high blood sugar inside your body. The cause of diabetes does not come from one source. The risk or high blood sugar can be higher especially for pregnant women which is called gestational diabetes. The gestational diabetes itself only happens during pregnancy time. So what does cause it? Basically, the pregnancy or placenta hormones blocks or inhibits the insulin to stabilize sugar’s blood. In result, the glucose levels likely increases and it can risk both mother and baby.

How to Know the Risk of Gestational Diabetes

As mentioned before that gestational diabetes only happens to women during pregnancy and they are at risk to have it in certain conditions:

a.   You are older than 25 years old when you are pregnant
b.   Have your baby weighed more than 9 pounds after giving a birth
c.   Inherit diabetes from your family
d.   Have high blood pressure
e.   You were overweight or had obesity issue before getting pregnant
f.    Too much amniotic fluid inside your body
g.   Had miscarriage

Symptoms of Gestational Diabetes

To let you know whether or not you suffer gestational diabetes, these conditions commonly will happen:

a.   Fatigue, which results to get tired easily and you should have lots of bed rest
b.   Blurred vision. In this term, you can’t see things clearly and it is also caused by fatigue
c.   Infections on skin, vagina, and bladder quite often and frequently
d.   Urination increases
e.   Feel thirsty a lot, more than usual
f.    Vomit a lot
g.   Lose appetite and weight

How to Know Whether or Not We Suffer It?

First of all, the mother should follow oral glucose tolerance test between the 24th and 28th week of her pregnancy. This is applied for those who don’t have symptoms of gestational diabetes. For those who have diabetes, they are advised to take the test in the early time of pregnancy. In case you have no idea yet about gestational diabetes preparation test, we would like to give you several tips before doing the test:

a.   Just eat normally and have balanced diet

We do not recommend you to drastically change your way of eating or the food you have. It is because you can’t know how much the risk of gestational diabetes you have. Just stick to your normal appetite and eat healthy, everything should be balance.

b.   Know your restriction

In this term, know your restriction before the gestational diabetes preparation test. Some doctors might ask you to fast for 12 hours before the test begin. Some doctors do not ask it.

c.   List of your medicines

Make a list of medicines you are taking right now and during the test and let your doctor know whether or not they will be too risky to take before and during the test.

After being diagnosed, the result will be only two. If you suffer gestational diabetes, you can check your condition regularly by checking the glucose at home by putting a drop of blood in a machine that is able to read the level of sugar.