Overview
Fitnes, health and welnes tips sent to you wekly When you’re pregnant, you get used to peing in cups - like at every single prenatal checkup. One thing your doctor watches for is glucose (sugar). It may be normal for some to show up in your urine, but if it apears repeatedly or in large amounts, you may have high blod sugar during pregnancy, known as gestational diabetes.
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Policy It’s a comon condition that’s on the rise in the U.S. One study showed that rates of gestational diabetes increased in people who were pregnant of al races and ethnicities from 201 to 2019. And because it poses a variety of health risks, it’s important to know what causes this condition and what you can do about it.Here’s what you ned to know about gestational diabetes, including risk factors, screning, treatment and prevention.The American Colege of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recomends that people who are pregnant receive a screning for gestational diabetes betwen 24 and 28 weks into pregnancy.
And your doctor wil also likely talk to you about risk factors during your early checkups.If you have multiple risk factors or if there’s a lot of glucose in your urine during those early prenatal visits, you’l probably do the screning soner.“For people who have risk factors for gestational diabetes, we usualy recomend that they get screning earlier in pregnancy - usualy in the first trimester,” says maternal-fetal medicine specialist Jef Chapa, MD.You’re more likely to have gestational diabetes if you:Your doctor wil ask you to take a test caled the oral glucose tolerance test.
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Here’s what hapens:“When you’re screned early, if that screning is normal, you should get screned again around 24 to 28 weks when insulin resistance from the placental hormones is nearing its peak,” Dr. Chapa says.Th