The Glucose Test

The Glucose Test

 
The glucose test is done to identify women that can have gestational diabetes. Your doctor will do the test after having asked you to take a glucose mixture that has a nasty taste, and

 
then, around an hour later, will take a blood test. The doctor will then check the level of sugar in the sample. The high levels indicate that you are in risk of having gestational diabetes.

The one hour test is generally done between week twenty-four and twenty eight, although some doctors do it twice, once at the beginning of the pregnancy and then again around week twenty-four and twenty eight. Around twenty five percent of the obstetricians do this test only to women that are at risk of getting gestational diabetes. The risk factors, which will be mentioned, are around fifty percent in pregnant women that have one of them:

  • Maternal age above twenty-five years.
  • Previous birth of a big sized baby.
  • Previous fetal unexplained death.
  • Previous pregnancy with gestational diabetes.
  • Marked family history of diabetes.
  • Obesity

If your initial glucose test is abnormal, this does not necessarily mean that you have gestational diabetes. The doctor will recommend another test, a three-hour test, which will revel if you really have gestational diabetes. The three-hour test will require the doctor take a blood test after you have stopped eating from one day to the next. You will then need to take a different mixture of glucose, and then blood tests are done again in the first, second and third hour. In order to prepare your body for this, doctors suggest eating an additional serving of rice or pasta three days before doing this test.

A test is considered positive, or abnormal, if two of the levels of blood are in the abnormal range. If the gestational diabetes test ends up being positive, the doctor will put you on a special diet, check your glucose levels during the rest of the pregnancy and will watch the baby’s weight and pulmonary growth. If you have high levels of glucose even while on the special diet, you might need insulin or an oral medication to control your sugar levels.

 

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