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Diabetes is called gestational only if it is during pregnancy

Gestational diabetes is the diabetes that is identified only when the woman is pregnant. The diabetes will be said to be gestational if there was no prior symptoms of diabetes before the pregnancy and the symptoms disappears as soon as the baby is born.

However in some cases the women may be suffering from diabetes which was not yet diagnosed, or she may be prone to suffering diabetes and the pregnancy can trigger the factors of developing diabetes when the woman becomes pregnant.

This is why the women have to be put on the check up after the baby is born to identify if it was gestational diabetes or any other type of diabetes. Read the rest of this entry »

There are many factors that can contribute to the woman risks of developing the gestational diabetes, the risks among other are the women who are obese, the women who become pregnant after 35 years old.

The women who give birth to the babies who are overweight and the women who have history of diabetes in their family. Ethical factors also can contribute to the woman tolerance of diabetes or can increase their chances of suffering  gestational diabetes.

Besides of the above risks, women who smoke or who suffered polycystic ovarian increase their risks of suffering gestational diabetes.

Since at least 40 to 60 percent women do not have any risk factor, the health care may choose to screen all pregnant women. Another reason of screening all women is that sometime women do not have any symptoms that means and they may not be aware that they are suffering gestational diabetes.

The common symptoms that women show when they suffer gestational pregnancy are: the thirst, and urination increases, the woman may feel fatigue, vomiting, and nausea, the yeast infection and bladder infection can also increase. Sometime the woman may suffer a blurred vision. Read the rest of this entry »