Gestational diabetes evaluation?

Question

What do they test you for when your doctor orders this?Just for diabetes?Do they check all your stuff like your iron and all that or do they do that seperate in your urine?

Answer 1

When i had my one hour they also tested my iron with the blood for the sugar test.

Answer 2

They give you this nasty soda tasting stuff just with the bubbles you drink it then within an hour they take your blood if you have diabetes you will have to go back for another test this time 3 hours long and i don't know what happenes at this test i never got diabities

Answer 3

Diagnotsic Tests Of The Third Trimester

Testing for Glucose Tolerance
Throughout your pregnancy, your urine has most likely been tested for the presence of sugar. If high sugar levels are detected in your urine, you may be given follow-up tests to determine whether you are at risk for gestational diabetes, a temporary condition that will disappear after the baby is born.

Some practitioners believe that gestational diabetes can increase the risk of fetal macrosomia, or a larger-than-average baby. To prevent the baby from growing too large, and to avoid the need for cesarean section, women deemed at risk for gestational diabetes are often placed under careful dietary restrictions, monitored using blood tests and ultrasound scans, and occasionally given insulin. In some cases labor is induced early, or elective cesarean section is performed.

Gestational diabetes has been the cause of a great deal of controversy. Many experts question its very existence, calling it "a diagnosis in search of a disease." In addition, many birth practitioners believe that elevated blood-sugar levels actually represent a healthy response to the inherent dynamics of pregnancy. Glucose may remain in the blood for longer periods so that it is more accessible to the developing baby. These experts add that pregnant women should not be tested using the same standards as nonpregnant women, since the pregnant metabolic condition is not being taken into account.

Only 30 percent of women with an abnormal glucose tolerance test will have larger-than-average babies. It is just as easy, however, to predict the likelihood of a large baby by assessing prepregnant weight, weight gain during pregnancy, and gestational age.1 In fact, most large babies will be born to mothers with normal glucose tests. The glucose tolerance tests themselves are unreliable and can be duplicated only 30 to 50 percent of the time.2

No controlled studies have proven that high blood sugar leads to problematic or high-risk pregnancy. In fact, one clinical trial, which studied the outcomes of women who had elective cesarean sections because of gestational diabetes, showed a significantly higher incidence of mortality for the babies, with no better outcomes than the control group.3 Further, Murray Enkin, MD, and his colleagues, who compiled data from 9,000 controlled trials from 400 medical journals in 18 different languages for the Cochrane Database, found that labeling patients "high-risk" due to gestational diabetes subjected them to many expensive and time-consuming tests and interventions that have no proven benefits.4

Gestational diabetes should not be confused with a preexisting diabetic condition. Women who have been diagnosed with some variation of diabetes prior to pregnancy, or who have a family history of diabetes, are obese, or who have previously delivered a baby that weighed more than nine pounds,5 are more likely to have true glucose intolerance during pregnancy. They may require close monitoring throughout their pregnancies to prevent stillbirth and congenital defects.

http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/prenatal-testing-side.html