8/19/2013

Signs and symptoms of Gestational Diabetes can be seen while screening during the time of pregnancy in women. Gestational diabetes is a disease that occurs with women who have not been diagnosed blood sugar ever before and they show signs of high level of blood glucose in pregnancy. There is no specific cause for the disease that has been found, but experts say's that during pregnancy hormonal changes takes place and insulin level in increased which affects the tolerance level of the body to glucose badly.



Signs and Symptoms of Gestational Diabetes:



· There are no specific symptoms that may be related to the disease, but generally women fell excess of thirst and which can cause the urge of urinating more as compared to the normal routine.



· The signs of gestational diabetes are somehow similar to type 2 diabetes. Women with the disease feel exhausted and fatigue. Vomiting is also reported as a symptom of the disease.



· One may find problem in the vision. If you are not able to see everything clearly and the thing you see seem blurred to you, it may be a symptom of this type of blood sugar.



· Some other symptoms of gestational diabetes are bladder infection and yeast infection.



Self Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes:



There are many home diagnosis kits available in the market now days that can help diagnose the disease on your own at home. These kits are easy to use and cheap too. The process is real easy and all you would need to check the results is your urine or blood sample. The authenticity of these products has been proved as they are all CE marked. Some special type of dye is used in these gestational diabetes diagnosis kits. You need to put 3 drops of urine or blood on the vessel and if the result is positive, the colour will change from yellow to whatever colour is mentioned on the packet.



Similarly, negative result will have a different colour and if the test has not been performed properly, there would be no change in the colour.



Signs and symptoms of gestational diabetes can be easily detected if you keep on doing a regular check up of yourself.
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