First, a health care professional will draw your blood. Then you will drink the liquid containing glucose. You will need your blood drawn every hour for 2 to 3 hours for a doctor to diagnose gestational diabetes.
High blood glucose levels at any two or more blood test times—fasting, 1 hour, 2 hours, or 3 hours—mean you have gestational diabetes. Your health care team will explain what your OGTT results mean. If you have gestational diabetes, the chances of having problems with your pregnancy can be reduced by controlling your blood sugar levels. Blood sugar levels may be reduced by changing your diet and exercise routine. However, if these changes don't lower your blood sugar levels enough, you will need to take medicine as well.
This may be tablets or insulin injections. You'll also be more closely monitored during your pregnancy and birth to check for any potential problems. If you have gestational diabetes, it's best to give birth before 41 weeks. Induction of labour or a caesarean section may be recommended if labour does not start naturally by this time.
Earlier delivery may be recommended if there are concerns about your or your baby's health or if your blood sugar levels have not been well controlled. Find out more about how gestational diabetes is treated. Gestational diabetes normally goes away after birth.
But women who've had it are more likely to develop:. You should have a blood test to check for diabetes 6 to 13 weeks after giving birth, and once every year after that if the result is normal. The test may be done earlier if you have a high glucose level in your urine during your routine prenatal visits, or if you have a high risk for diabetes.
Women who have a low risk for diabetes may not have the screening test. To be low-risk, all of these statements must be true:. A normal result means you do not have gestational diabetes. These are two ways to indicate how much glucose is in the blood. This test will show if you have gestational diabetes. Most women about 2 out of 3 who take this test do not have gestational diabetes.
If your glucose level is lower than the abnormal results described below, you do not have gestational diabetes. If only one of your blood glucose results in the oral glucose tolerance test is higher than normal, your provider may simply suggest you change some of the foods you eat.
Then, your provider may test you again after you have changed your diet. If more than one of your blood glucose results is higher than normal, you have gestational diabetes. You may have some of the symptoms listed above under the heading titled "How the Test will Feel. There is little risk involved with having your blood taken.
Veins and arteries vary in size from one person to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others. Oral glucose tolerance test - pregnancy; OGTT - pregnancy; Glucose challenge test - pregnancy; Gestational diabetes - glucose screening. American Diabetes Association.
If you are diagnosed with gestational diabetes, it is very important that you have regular follow-up tests for diabetes after the pregnancy or before becoming pregnant again.
Go to your doctor when your baby is 6 weeks old to get another oral glucose tolerance test OGTT. This allows you to monitor and manage 'impaired glucose tolerance', or Type 2 diabetes.
Women are encouraged to discuss their health needs with a health practitioner. If you have concerns about your health, you should seek advice from your health care provider or if you require urgent care you should go to the nearest Emergency Dept.
Some are more likely to get gestational diabetes. What is gestational diabetes? Testing for gestational diabetes. Managing gestational diabetes. Staying active. To achieve and maintain a reasonable level of fitness aim for one of the following: a session of moderate-intensity exercise on all or most days of the week at least minutes of exercise over a week 10, steps per day.
After your baby is born.
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