What are dangerous blood sugar levels during pregnancy?
Anything above 200mg/dl is dangerous during pregnancy and has to be followed by glucose intolerance test.
Last updated on 15 Mar 2023
Doctors use blood tests to diagnose gestational diabetes such as glucose fasting and glucose intolerance.
It is done to diagnose diabetes such as fasting glucose. However, post prandial is done after 2 hours to check how the body stores sugar in muscles after food consumption after 2 hours.
Yes, it is normal.
Avoid eating high sugar foods and refined carbs for atleast a week before the test and glucose test will usually come normal
Impaired glucose tolerance test is done to evaluate prediabetes.
FBS, FBG, Fasting Blood Sugar
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