Sugar curve during pregnancy

This kind of laboratory research, like analysis on the sugar curve, is often carried out during pregnancy. Its purpose is to establish the reaction of the body to the load of the body with a high concentration of glucose, in persons who are predisposed to diabetes mellitus.

When is this kind of research being assigned?

It is mandatory that this type of laboratory examination is prescribed in cases when the women in the situation have not performed a urine test, and at the same time there is a periodic increase in blood pressure.

In addition, this analysis should also be given to women who have a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus.

How correctly to hand over the analysis on a sugar curve at pregnancy?

With the help of this study, doctors can establish the state of such a process in the body, like carbohydrate metabolism, and reveal its slightest disturbances.

To ensure that the sugar curve in pregnancy is not distorted, the last meal before delivery should be no later than 12 hours.

1. First, the blood glucose in a woman is measured on an empty stomach. After that she is offered to drink sugar syrup, for the preparation of which take ordinary sugar at the rate of 1.75 g / kg body weight, but not more than 75 g.
2. The second and third measurement of the glucose level to the blood is carried out after 1 and 2 hours, respectively.

How are results evaluated?

The decipherment of the test result for the sugar curve, carried out during pregnancy, is performed only by doctors.

The presence of violations can be said with the following results:

• the fasting glucose level is greater than 5.3 mmol / l;
• the glucose level after an hour more than 10 mmol / l;
• the glucose level indicator is 2 hours - more than 8.6 mmol / l.

In the event that the indicators of the conducted research exceed The woman is given a second examination.

The test results can be influenced by numerous factors. Therefore, the diagnosis after the first sugar curve during pregnancy, even if the results are not normal, is not set. So, for example, the level of glucose in the blood can increase in those cases, if the woman was assigned bed rest, or if there are diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, at which it is possible, a violation of the absorption process.

Thus, in order to diagnose "diabetes mellitus" during pregnancy, a sugar curve test is used, and its results are compared with the rates mentioned above.