Women experiencing gestational diabetes do not generally experience any symptoms. But patients who have non-pregnancy related diabetes usually experience frequent urination and become extremely thirsty. To determine whether gestational diabetes is present, all pregnant women go through a screening process that consists of two tests, a Glucose Challenge Test (GCT) and a Glucose Loading Test
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Diabetes After Pregnancy
Gestational diabetes is the term for people who are diabetic only in the pregnant state. Most commonly, their blood sugars will return to normal after pregnancy but they are at much higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life. Historically, when diabetes develops later in life we’ve classified it as adult-onset diabetes, but
How Gestational Diabetes Develops
Women who are pregnant are more likely to develop diabetes due to the normal hormonal changes caused by pregnancy. Babies need to have sugar available to them to fuel the rapid growth and develop that takes place during pregnancy. The placenta makes a special hormone that’s not generally present in the non-pregnant state to raise
What Is The Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes During Pregnancy?
Type 1 Diabetes, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, occurs when people do not make any insulin. (Insulin is the hormone needed to control our blood sugars.) People usually develop Type 1 diabetes early in life. When they become pregnant, we call them pregestational diabetics, or people who had the diagnosis of diabetes before they got
Radio MD Interview: Dr. Nathan Fox – Increase in the Birth of Twins
The birthrate for twins has increased substantially in this country over the past 35 years. Doctors are trying to find ways to improve outcomes for women with twin pregnancies. . Dr. Nathan Fox, father of twins himself, discusses management of twins, as well as recent research on twin pregnancies published along with his colleagues at