Can eating a lot of sugar cause gestational diabetes? ?
Oct 21, 2009 | Signs of Gestational Diabetes
I have been craving sugar throughout my whole pregnancy and I’ve been eating a lot of candy lately, been trying to stop. I’m 26 weeks and I have my prenatal appt on wednesday to do the one hour test. I am far from overweight (5’4 127 lbs), obesity does not run in my family, and i dont have PCOS. (I heard all of these things increases the risk). However I have been urinating A LOT which i heard is a sign. Are my chances high?
Here’s how it works: eating sugar can’t case you to get gestational diabetes. It’s a genetic predisposition and there’s no way to tell completely that you will get it or not – you can guess by risk factors, but it’s not a guarantee.
However, if you have that genetic disposition, eating too much sugar will DEFINITELY affect whether you get high blood sugars during pregnancy. In other words, you could be predisposed for GD but if you ate like a gestational diabetic throughout your whole pregnancy you could avoid high blood sugars and would only show high on the actual test. The test would force it to show up because it’s a big dose of sugar/glucose all at once that measure how you react to sugar.
If you don’t have the predisposition for it and eat sugar all the time it will be bad for your teeth and weight gain, but your blood sugar will never go high. Your body manufactures enough insulin to cover as much sugar as you eat.
You don’t have to be overweight. A common indicator is if someone in your family tree is a type 2 diabetic, and certain ethnicities are more prone that others like Native Americans. Good luck!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
It can, or it can be a symptom of gestational diabetes – so can urinating a lot. All those things do increase the risk, but sometimes women get gestational diabetes anyway.
You are having your urine checked at every prenatal exam, right? Next time mention your craving and your frequent urination, which is a little early (by a couple months – sure earlier, but after the uterus gets over the pelvic bone you don’t need to pee so often) to be experiencing in your pregnancy. Meanwhile avoid sugar and processed carbs if you can.
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October 21st, 2009 at 11:53 pm
its part of it but its not alone its excessive thirst ,blurred vision,tingling hands and feet, urinating a lot I read these in my doctors office.I have all of them I have to take my test this week.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 am
Eating a lot of sugar does not cause gestational diabetes. Being thin and having no family history also does not guarantee that you are safe from developing this condition. Urinating a lot is a sign of pregnancy, so don’t worry too much about that. Try to limit your sugar intake. I wouldn’t worry about the test. You either have gestational diabetes or you don’t. There isn’t really anything you can do to change it. If you do have it, of course, there is plenty you can do to help control it. Best of luck.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 am
Here’s how it works: eating sugar can’t case you to get gestational diabetes. It’s a genetic predisposition and there’s no way to tell completely that you will get it or not – you can guess by risk factors, but it’s not a guarantee.
However, if you have that genetic disposition, eating too much sugar will DEFINITELY affect whether you get high blood sugars during pregnancy. In other words, you could be predisposed for GD but if you ate like a gestational diabetic throughout your whole pregnancy you could avoid high blood sugars and would only show high on the actual test. The test would force it to show up because it’s a big dose of sugar/glucose all at once that measure how you react to sugar.
If you don’t have the predisposition for it and eat sugar all the time it will be bad for your teeth and weight gain, but your blood sugar will never go high. Your body manufactures enough insulin to cover as much sugar as you eat.
You don’t have to be overweight. A common indicator is if someone in your family tree is a type 2 diabetic, and certain ethnicities are more prone that others like Native Americans. Good luck!
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