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Archive for September, 2011

Before we come to Gestational Diabetes, let’s take a look at diabetes, Diabetes also known as Diabetes Mellitus derived from the Greek word diabaineine, is a chronic and complex disease, caused by having too much glucose (sugar) in the blood.

What is Gestational Diabetes?

Gestational diabetes is a passing condition that occurs during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes affects two to four per cent of almost all pregnancies and entails a heightened possibility of developing diabetes for both the child as well as the mother. Gestational diabetes is also known as glucose intolerance of pregnancy.

What causes gestational diabetes?

Weight gain coupled with changing hormones is part of a healthy pregnancy. But this change makes it a difficult task for your body to keep up with its need for a hormone known as insulin. Any medical blog or study says that when this occurs, your body doesn’t get the energy it requires from the food you ingest.

High risk groups for Gestational Diabetes

To find out about your risk for being affected by gestational diabetes, check each item that applies to you. Speak to your doctor about your risk at your first prenatal visit.

• Are you more than 25 yrs of age?

• Have you had gestational diabetes or shown diabetes symptoms before?

• Have you given birth to at least one baby weighing more than 9 pounds?

• Are you overweight?

• Have you been told that you have “pre-diabetes
(a condition in which blood glucose levels are high,but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes)

• Do you have a parent, brother, or sister with diabetes?

• Are you an African American, American Indian, Asian American, Hispanic, or Pacific Islander?

If you have answered yes to any of the above risk factors, get yourself tested for gestational diabetes.
When do you need to be checked for gestational diabetes?

Depending upon your risk factors the doctor will decide when exactly you need to be checked for gestational diabetes.
Your blood glucose level may be checked at your first prenatal visit, if you are at high risk. You will be checked again sometime between weeks 24 and 28 of your pregnancy, If your test results are normal. You will be checked sometime between weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy, if you happen to be at an average risk. Your doctor may decide that you do not need to be checked if there is no risk or the risk for gestational diabetes is very low.

A careful reading of previous posts on this medical blog would reveal that diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases distinguished by high blood sugar or glucose levels that result from failing in insulin secretion, or action, or maybe even both..

From time to time, since symptoms can also be common to other illnesses, the real illness may be unnoticed. Diabetes symptoms may differ, the list may go on and on but not all diabetics have them. There are even some cases that no symptoms may show on some patients.

Diabetes occurs when the body’s capability to act in response to insulin gets affected. The insulin is your body hormone that allows your blood sugar or glucose to enter body cells. When too much glucose enters the blood, this leads to the high amount of blood glucose that can cause glucose spillage in urine. This is the primary reason why one of the most classic diabetes symptoms, frequent urination, troubles the patient.

Because high glucose level is beyond normal, your body cells are starved of energy and as a result lead to the damage in your nerves, kidneys, eyes, blood vessels and your heart. The bigger amount of glucose appears when the sugar of your body drops too low. It then increases production of sugar. This process starts when the pancreas releases the hormone called glucagon. The stored glycogen will be converted back into the glucose by your liver and muscles.

How are diabetes symptoms diagnosed?

Diabetic diagnosis and Diabetes Treatment Methods may vary and is based on the period and range of the high blood sugar levels. Patients with type two diabetes are often diagnosed comparatively gradually as compared to people with type 1 diabetes, to which it may take only after weeks or some months. Symptoms may also develop quite slowly.

Some of the most specific and common early diabetes symptoms are

• Absence of menstrual periods
• Blurry vision
• Skin disease
• Weight loss or weight gain
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Urinary tract infection
• Malaise
• lethargy
• Poor skin healing
• Athlete’s foot
• Sexual problem
• Abnormal vaginal dryness
• Erectile dysfunction
• Untimely menopause
• Numbness of the hands

Other more extreme diabetes symptoms are

• Cessation of menstrual periods
• Headache
• Muscle aches, weakness and cramps
• Acne
• Excessive thirstiness
• Dehydration
• Weight loss even with an increased appetite
• Tiredness, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting
• Excessive urination
• Excessive hunger
• More bladder, skin and vaginal infections
• Serious blurry vision

Some of the other diabetes symptoms are listed below

• Bleeding Gums
• Confusion
• Depression
• Buzzing in the ear
• Feet numbness or tingling
• Skin itching
• Diarrhea

Complications linked to diabetes symptoms

• Heart diseases and
• Stroke
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Sciatica
• Kidney diseases

One of the most common symptoms, and physiological, the SPI is that the cast members or contraction during sleep.

Researchers from Harvard University presented data that suggest the disorder may also increase the chances of impotence. Their study involved 11,000 men from 2002, which asked a series of standardized questions. They were able to determine, in collaboration with the criteria of RLS as 1979 men suffering from impotence and about 50 percent of those who are more likely to have the condition if they are presented RLS. This was compared to those who suffer from RLS all. While impotence can be affected by several factors such as age, smoking, etc. were taken into consideration as well when the data were analyzed.

Suggested link seems to be the result of chemicals in the brain – if both conditions are rooted. Dr. Xiang Gao, lead author of the study and assistant professor of epidemiology, said the “underlying message of RLS and erectile dysfunction can be caused by hypofunctioning is” dopamine “in the central nervous system.” This could explain the conditions found with the two first. Although research has yet been officially published, it is only displayed, is expected to be formally published later this year.