Diabetes is a hereditary disease, which means that if you have diabetes in your family, you may be more prone to diabetes. There is also a good possibility that your kids could inherit the disease. If your parents or grandparents suffer from or had diabetes, the best thing you can do is to be informed […]
Tag Archives: Glucose Tolerance Test
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When you are around 24 weeks pregnant, your doctor will give you what is known as the Glucose Tolerance Test. The purpose of this test is to determine whether or not you have gestational diabetes. You will be asked to drink a highly concentrated sugar drink and then you will have blood drawn to determine […]
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One of the blood tests that helps determine the concentration of glucose (blood sugar) in the body is the hemoglobin a1c. This test goes by a variety of names including HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin, or glycosylated hemoglobin. It is usually part of the annually scheduled lab tests for patients with cystic fibrosis or cystic fibrosis related […]
The family joke for many years was, “I’m going to make my husband sleep in a large, green plastic bag at night.” Either that or I was going to sleep in a rain coat. My husband suffered, nightly for many years from severe, drenching night sweats that would cause him to have to change his […]
In this article www.associatedcontent.com/article/439333/5_common_pregnancy_concerns_during.html, I addressed some of the most commonly asked questions on pregnancy message boards during the first trimester. The questions certainly do not end after the first trimester, however, so in this article, I will be addressing common concerns for the second trimester. As exciting as this trimester can be there are […]
Week 28 to week 40 make up the third trimester, seemingly the longest trimester of the three. This period of the pregnancy should be known as the trimester with the reality slap. The due date that seemed like it would never come is now coming up, causing an excitement, but at the same time anxiety […]