Discover the Symptoms and Treatments for Gestational Diabetes
Pregnancy puts extra stresses and strains on your body. For some non-diabetics, this can mean developing a temporary glucose intolerance, or Gestational Diabetes. This can often develop in the second half of the pregnancy and usually goes away after the birth, but your risk of developing diabetes in the future goes up. You need to have yourself tested at approximately 10 weeks after the pregnancy and ideally annually thereafter.
Some antenatal clinics will automatically test your urine for glucose to detect gestational diabetes. The symptoms to watch for are listed below
- Increased thirst and more frequent urination
- Increased tiredness
- Numbness or tingling in legs & feet
- Vision blurring
- Urine infections and genital itching
Of course some of these symptoms will be hard to distinguish from those due to a normal pregnancy, if you are worried, you should tell your doctor.
If Gestational diabetes is left untreated and glucose levels rise (particularly early in the pregnancy) then abnormalities can occur. For non-diabetic women, having gestational diabetes, which is successfully controlled, poses no extra health risks for your baby and does not mean your baby is more likely to develop diabetes itself. The main risk with gestational diabetes is that the baby will be large (called Macrocosmic). In extreme cases this can cause danger for mother and baby during the birth, or may require that an early birth be induced.
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