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Q: where can I find pictures and explanative diagrams on gestational diabetes mellitus?
please suggents links and websites on gestational diabetes mellitus… I surfed on google n yahoo but was not satisfactory…

A: Pictures of what? There is nothing to see.

Gestational Diabetes has the same possibility of damage as “regular” diabetes: pain and tingling in the hands and feet, tiredness, inability to gain weight, poor eyesight, etc.

But gestational diabetes also increases the chance of miscarriage and birth defects.

However, gestational diabetes will usually go away after you’ve given birth and drop back to your pre-pregnancy weight level. if you do NOT lose that “baby fat” you may remain as a Type 2 Diabetic.

Q: elderly primi with gestational diabetes mellitus-prognosis?
elderly primi with gestational diabetes mellitus-prognosis

A: Your question is not clear, but in general gestational diabetes can be treated very well with changes in one’s diet.

Q: i need to know more about gestational diabetes mellitus because my 1 hr glucose test was positive?

A: GDM, like other forms of diabetes, is defined as glucose intolerance, but with its first onset during pregnancy. Approximately 3.5% of non-Aboriginal women, and up to 18% of Aboriginal women will develop GDM.

Risk factors for developing this condition include:

• a previous diagnosis of GDM

• age over 35 years

• obesity

• a history of polycystic ovary syndrome

• hirsutism (excessive body and facial hair)

• acanthosis nigricans (a skin disorder characterized by the appearance of darkened patches of skin)

• being a member of a population considered to be at high risk for diabetes, including women of Aboriginal, Hispanic, South Asian, Asian or African descent.

Although some are at greater risk than others, the Canadian Diabetes Association 2003 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Diabetes in Canada recommend that all women be screened for GDM between 24 and 28 weeks’ gestation using a glucose tolerance test*. For women with multiple risk factors, this testing should be done during the first trimester, then again during the second and third trimesters, even if the first test is negative.

Prompt diagnosis of GDM is important, as it carries several risks to both mother and infant. For example, children born to mothers with GDM may be “macrosomic”, a medical term meaning “severely obese.” This poses a risk of trauma to both mother and baby during the delivery. Macrosomic babies have a higher risk of hypoglycemia after birth – a dangerously low blood glucose level – as well as severe breathing problems. They are also at higher risk for potential long-term obesity and glucose intolerance.

Although the diagnosis should be taken seriously, GDM can be managed by some of the same measures with which type 2 diabetes is managed.

The first step is to make lifestyle changes that can prevent or reverse both GDM and type 2 diabetes. These measures include nutritional therapy – which is best accomplished with the help of a dietician – to achieve what’s called euglycemia, or blood glucose balance. It’s important to ensure appropriate weight gain, but not weight loss, and adequate nutritional intake for both mother and baby. Exercise is encouraged, with the frequency and intensity of activity decided with your doctor based on your risk.

If reductions in blood glucose do not reach the recommended levels within two weeks with lifestyle changes, then certain types of insulin can be safely used in pregnancy.

Generally, glucose levels in women who have had GDM return to normal. However, these women do face an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, so after the baby is delivered, a follow-up blood glucose test should be done within six months. To reduce the risk of developing diabetes in the future, women should be encouraged to:

Breastfeed. Breastfeeding been shown to reduce the risk for subsequent diabetes in the baby.

• Follow a healthy lifestyle.

• Be screened regularly for the development of type 2 diabetes, or impaired glucose tolerance, also known as “prediabetes”.

• Consult their physician when planning their next pregnancy to check blood glucose levels, and consider taking a folic acid supplement to ensure the best outcomes.

With prompt diagnosis and good management, women with GDM can expect to have a healthy pregnancy and a happy, healthy baby.

Q: gestational diabetes mellitus,,?
does it develop in every women getting pregnant

A: no..it doesnt develop in every women getting pregnant

Q: What are each of the symptoms that patients suffer from diabetes?
I am researching diabetes at school and I would like to know more about the different types of diabetes for example
Type 1 Diatbetes, Type 2 Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.

What are the symptoms they suffer and what do the patients of this disease discuss of these symptoms?

A: Treating diabetes is best carried out during the early stages of the disease when the consequences can still be controlled and minimized. Such an approach will require an early determination of diabetic symptoms. These diabetic symptoms are:

* Extreme and excessive thirst that is quite abnormal
* Hunger even when meals have recently been taken
* Frequent urination
* Fatigue easily creeps in
* Excessive weight loss at such a short period of time
* Smeared vision
* Nagging impatience that has recently been developed

If you are interested in more info on treatment for type 2 diabetes, you may wish to refer to this site : http://diabetic.best-health-remedy.com/

Q: Is it safe or even recommended to breastfeed a newborn if you have been diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes?
Or any other kind of diabetes for that matter (Type I or Type II)?

Please forgive me if this sounds silly or retarded but wouldn’t the diabetes be transmitted to the infant through the breast milk at all?

In other words, if the nursing mother’s blood sugar levels are sky high, isn’t she passing on all that excess sugar to her baby that way?

Also, I know that there is a strong chance that the Gestational Diabetes may disappear a few weeks after the baby is born but what if it doesn’t?

What if the Gestational Diabetes transforms its evil self into full blown Diabetes Mellitus Type I for example?

Thank you so much for your time and effort!

Serious replies only please!

A: Never a silly question, you’re worried.

As people have said, it’s better for you and the bub to BF.

Diabetes in any form isn’t contagious, you only get type 1 when you’re a child, you get it because your immune system somehow sees your pancreas as a threat, and attacks it.
The only treatment is life-long insulin injections.

Type 2 is when your pancreas can’t produce enough insulin, and can be helped by diet, tablets, and injections.

Having G. Diabetes does put you at risk for type 2 in the future, so stay healthy.

BF is the best for everyone, and it’ll help you, and the bub, and Breastmilk contains exactly what your baby needs. No more, no less.

Good luck, and hope things go well.

Q: Please help! Diabetes Mellitus?
Is diabetes mellitus the same as Diabetes? I need to write a paper on Diabetes Mellitus…should i include Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational? HELP Thanks!

A: write it on type one and type two and briefly go over gestational.

do not include diabetes insipidus.

and make sure to make the point that type two is not even diabetes, it’s the body not remembering how to use insulin right. totally different disease with a similar treatment ONLY in the further advancements.

the rest of us never got the chance to take a pill.

if you need help with it email me, i’ll do a personal email message on type one you can cite.

Q: A 50-year old man who sits at a computer for his work, gets little exercise and is overweight…?
develops diabetes mellitus…which type of diabetes mellitus is it likely to be?

Gestational diabetes mellitus

Type 1 diabetes mellitus

Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Rickets

Goitre

A: Type 2

A man can’t get gestational diabetes because that’s what some PREGNANT women get. Unless HE finds a way to get pregnant he safe there.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune(viral induced??) disease that attacks the pancreas and destroys the insulin creating cells. It has nothing to do with lifestyle

Type 2 diabetes has genetic components, lifestyle components and sometimes just happens. It is by far the most common type of diabetes(90% or more)

Rickets is a condition deriving from lack of vitamin C. It has to do with bone and nothing to do with diabetes

Goitre??Goiters(England spelling perhaps). Anyway, a goiter is an abnormal growth of the thyroid gland. It could be due to a tumor but is more likely to be due to prolonged hypothyroidism. It has nothing to do with diabetes.

Hope you get an A on the test. But, it’s far more important that you learn this stuff-In my opinion, diabetes is the leading preventable treatable health problem in developed countries.

Q: perl programming?
Sample Data:
{
print TEMP2 $_;
}
else
{
print “OK”;
print “b”, TEMP2 $_;
}
}

Problem:
I want the ” 1997……” to be in 1 line before it. Meaning all lines must first start with “<" since the file is an xml. how am i gonna do it. i have a sample program but everytime i ran it, it stops at the sntence " 1997......" please help????

Correct output i want:

A: I only dredge up Perl when I need a quick and dirty solution so I can’t claim to be an expert. But have you looked for XMLWriter in CPAN? Module ref in link below…

Q: OGTT RESULTS? Cant understand it.?
Patients Fasting Blood Glucose Level : 79.0 mg/dl

Blood Glucose after load:
at 60 mins = 133.mg/dl
at 120 mins = 120.0 mg/dl
at 180 mins = 100 mg/dl

here is what it says on the result:

CRITERIA FOR DIAGNOSTIC INTERPRETATION : Presence of 2 or more of the following abnormal serum glucose values: (1> 95 mg/dl FBS; 2>180mg/dl at 60 min after glucose load; 3>155mg/dl at 120 min after glucose load; 4> 140 mg/dl at 180 min after glucose load0 qualifies for the biochemical diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. Patterns of glucose level abnormality other than the aforementioned criterion indicate Impaired Glucose Tolerance

i couldnt understand the result sheet that i received since i havent forwarded the results to my doctor. and i will give it to her on monday.
can you explain it to me? thanks a LOT!

A: (1> 95 mg/dl FBS; …yours was 79

2>180mg/dl at 60 min after glucose …yours was 133
3>155mg/dl at 120 min after glucose load….yours was 120
4> 140 mg/dl at 180 min after glucose ….yours was 100

Your numbers are all below the criteria so it looks good! Hope this Helps.

Q: Amniotic fluid?
I’m currently 33wks+ pregnant with my second child and this is VERY different from my first. I was diagnosed with GDM (Gestational Diabetes Mellitus) at 29wks with this pregnancy and have been trying my hardest to keep my sugar levels under control. I just started insulin 4 days ago because I’m having so many problems.

Anywho, my Specialist told me that I have an increased risk of excess fluid or hydramnios and that I should keep an eye out for any symptoms seeing my sugars are erratic.

Since early this morning I have been “leaking” down there and have been a little worried. There has been some discharge (sorry TMI), but there has generally been too much of it to just be cervical mucus. And what is worse I can’t get through to the hospital to ask for help!

How can you tell the difference between leaking of discharge and waters? I have been collecting fluid in pads. There hasn’t been a hell of a lot. But it still isn’t subsiding. Any advice?

A: if its your water it comes out every few minutes-i would place a calolto your doctor and tell him or her what is going on

Q: Why don’t people realize there is an big difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
Not just in the way it develops, but in the way it’s treated. And it’s not just those two. There is type 1, type 2, gestational … and that’s just diabetes MELLITUS! There’s also a diabetes insipidus that doesn’t have anything to do with blood sugar levels. It drives me crazy for someone to ask a diabetes related question and not specify which type. Maybe I’m taking this too seriously, but when I come here I come because I want to help (and to learn) and it’s impossible when people do not include these basic details.

10 points goes to whoever can give the differences between type 1 and type 2, accurately and in detail.

Sorry for the rant, thanks for listening :D
Mr Peachy, I am so disappointed in you. The definition of ‘diabetes’ has nothing to do with blood sugar. You would have known that if you had even read my question to the end.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11148

Actually I don’t know all the 50 states’ capitals anymore. But that doesn’t effect anyone’s health. And if I were in the geography section and 10 people per day came there and said that the capital of California was Las Vegas, you would see me post a similar rant there.
daeve930, absolutely right. I met a young, very thin woman with type 2 who had never been heavy. It does happen, some can’t avoid it. I feel for you.
And Word Nerd … thank you for sympathizing with me. That did make me feel a bit better :o ) Actually I did want you to bore me, but I don’t blame you for not wanting to strain your fingers. This question will be buried in a day and it won’t make a difference.

A: My Daughter is Type 1, diagnosed at age 10 six years ago.

Type 1 Diabetes is a disorder in which the body does not produce insulin. In this case the body attacks an organ known as the pancreas where insulin is made.

Those with Type 1 Diabetes are required to take insulin injections to move sugar from the bloodstream. This type of diabetes is usually diagnosed before age 40.

Type 2 Diabetes occurs when insulin that the body produces is less efficient at moving sugar out of the bloodstream. Some sugar is moved out of the blood, just not as effectively compared to a person with normal insulin efficiency. High blood sugars are a result of this.

Diet, exercise, weight loss, and possible medications are the treatment for this type of diabetes. Occasionally, someone with Type 2 may be placed on insulin to better control blood sugars. This type of diabetes is associated with physical inactivity and obesity. Type 2 Diabetes used to be thought of as the adult onset type of diabetes.

Q: Could diabetes ever be an advantage in an environment?
Could it? Diabetes is generally this, skip it if you know what it is.

Diabetes mellitus (IPA: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/ or /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtəs/, /məˈlaɪtəs/ or /ˈmɛlətəs/), often referred to simply as diabetes (Ancient Greek: διαβαίνειν “to pass through”), is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia).[2] Blood glucose levels are controlled by a complex interaction of multiple chemicals and hormones in the body, including the hormone insulin made in the beta cells of the pancreas. Diabetes mellitus refers to the group of diseases that lead to high blood glucose levels due to defects in either insulin secretion or insulin action. [3]

Diabetes develops due to a diminished production of insulin (in type 1) or resistance to its effects (in type 2 and gestational).[4] Both lead to hyperglycaemia, which largely causes the acute signs of diabetes: excessive urine production, resulting compensatory thirst and increased fluid intake, blurred vision, unexplained weight loss, lethargy, and changes in energy metabolism. Monogenic forms, e.g. MODY, constitute 1-5 % of all cases.

So now lets say there’s an organism that is in a low sugar environment, could it be a good thing?

A: I am diabetic and have recently had to start insulin. I don’t think there is any advantages to having diabetes. It is frustrating most of the time and I hate being diabetic.

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