What are gestational diabetes symptoms and causes? A condition of a pregnant woman (first recognized during pregnancy), which characterized by the high level of blood sugar (or familiar known as ‘glucose’) is the definition of gestational diabetes! It can occur about 4 percent of all pregnancies.
You might also like know about gestational diabetes test preparation tips, before continuing!
You might also like know about gestational diabetes test preparation tips, before continuing!
Understanding the gestational diabetes symptoms!
Unfortunately, there are no clearly symptoms or signs if you experience gestational diabetes! Therefore, since it doesn’t result any clearly signs you may need to get a proper test to get the clearly diagnosis (contact your doctor for more detailed information, advices and treatment). You may need to get this test for about after 24-28th weeks of your pregnancy!
In several cases, there are some pregnant women who have been getting this disease but they still don’t realize it! Your test may give a surprised result that represents a high blood sugar of your body. The test is so important to give a clearly diagnosis for you whether you are free from gestational diabetes or not, which eventually will be so helpful and important to prevent any serious problems either for yourself or your baby.
Once again, there are no clearly gestational diabetes symptoms (to get a clearly diagnosis you need to be tested for this condition), but you should begin to ask to yourself and consider to get the test immediately if you feel the common symptoms of diabetes (particularly blurred vision, increased urination-hunger-or thirst).
And don’t be panic if you experience these symptoms, because pregnancy also can cause those signs naturally (which mean having these signs doesn’t mean you might get diabetes). Talk and discuss with your doctor to get more advices!
Gestational diabetes causes in pregnancy!
During pregnancy, there are many hormonal changes and that’s why almost all pregnant women will get some degree of impaired glucose intolerance. This condition can lead to a higher level of blood sugar level (higher than the normal level) but still ‘not adequate high’ to result diabetes. And the risk of gestational diabetes will increase in line with the later part of the pregnancy (particularly in the 3rd trimester).
The organ to connect the uterus to the baby by the umbilical cord, which familiar known as ‘placenta’ is the place for the production of the increased certain hormones during pregnancy. These hormones are so important to shift nutrients from the body of mother for the developing fetus.
But there are also other hormones produced in the placenta to prevent the low blood sugar in the body of a pregnant woman, which can work by stopping the functions or actions of insulin. Over the course of pregnancy, unfortunately these hormones also can cause higher levels of blood sugar (progressive impaired glucose intolerance). To respond this condition, the body of a pregnant woman should be able to produce and make more insulin in order to convert more glucose to be energy.
And if the body fails to produce adequate insulin to handle the increased hormones, the rising of blood sugar levels are not able to be controlled as well which eventually will cause what do we call ‘gestational diabetes’.
Read also a helpful article about foods to fight prediabetes!
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