Gestational Diabetes : Symptoms

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Usually there are no symptoms, or the symptoms are mild and not life threatening to the pregnant woman. Often, the blood glucose level returns to normal after delivery. Symptoms may include: Blurred vision; Fatigue; Frequent infections, including ...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 17, 2007
Most women with GDM have no recognizable symptoms. However, leaving GDM undiagnosed and untreated is dangerous to the developing fetus. Left untreated, a woman with diabetes will have consistently high blood sugar. This sugar will cross the placen...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Most women with gestational diabetes have no recognizable symptoms. However, leaving gestational diabetes undiagnosed and untreated is risky to the developing fetus. Left untreated, a diabetic mother's blood sugar levels will be consistently high....
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Excessive thirst is an abnormal feeling of constantly needing to consume fluids.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 18, 2007
Fatigue is a feeling of weariness, tiredness, or lack of energy.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 17, 2007
Fatigue is physical and/or mental exhaustion that can be triggered by stress , medication, overwork, or mental and physical illness or disease. Everyone experiences fatigue occasionally.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Fatigue may be defined as a subjective state in which one feels tired or exhausted, and in which the capacity for normal work or activity is reduced. There is, however, no commonly accepted definition of fatigue when it is considered in the context of health and illness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Introduction Fatigue may be defined as a subjective state in which one feels tired or exhausted, and in which the capacity for normal work or activity is reduced. There is, however, no commonly accepted definition of fatigue when it is considered in the context of health and illness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Fatigue is physical and/or mental exhaustion that can be triggered by stress , medication, overwork, or mental and physical illness or disease. Everyone experiences fatigue occasionally.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Fatigue is a feeling of exhaustion or loss of strength. The duration of fatigue for a patient with cancer has been found to last from one to two times the length of time between diagnosis and completion of treatment, so it is common for fatigue to persist beyond a patient ' s treatment regimen.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Oncology: Managing FatigueFatigue is a common side effect of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. It can be caused by worry, lack of sleep, and poor appetite.
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Hypertension is the term doctors use for high blood pressure. Blood pressure readings are measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg) and usually given as 2 numbers. For example, 140 over 90 (written as 140/90. The top number is your systolic pressure, the pressure created when your heart beats. It is considered high if it is consistently over 140; The bottom number is your diastolic pressure, the pressure inside blood vessels when the heart is at rest. It is considered high if it is consistently over 90. Either or both of these numbers may be too high. Pre-hypertension is when your systolic blood pressure is between 120 and 139 or your diastolic blood pressure is between 80 and 89 on multiple readings. If you have pre-hypertension, you are more likely to develop high blood pressure at some point. See also: Blood pressure
Source:ADAM
Date:June 4, 2007
Blood pressure is the force with which blood pushes against the artery walls as it travels through the body. Like air in a balloon, blood fills arteries to a certain capacity- and just as too much air pressure can cause damage to a balloon, too much blood pressure can harm healthy arteries.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
Also known as high blood pressure, a condition in which too much force is exerted by the blood as it travels through the body ' s arteries. There are two types of hypertension: primary and secondary.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Each day that your blood pressure is too high, your chances of having a stroke are increased.
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as it flows through them.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) was established in 1972 by the National Institute of Health to translate research results on the health hazards of high blood pressure into clinical and public health practice. Before 1900, high blood pressure, or hypertension, was not generally recognized as a health problem.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
High blood pressure (hypertension) is called the silent killer. This is because many people who have it don’t know it. You can take an easy test to see if your blood pressure is too high. If it is high, you can take steps to lower it. Doing so could save your life.
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Risk factors are things that make you more likely to have a disease or condition. Do you know your risk factors for high blood pressure?
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
This HealthSheet was discontinued in quarter 1 of 2006. (also 83203 Spanish) Replaced with: (same title) 85660 English – 85661 Spanish
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Hypertension is high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Hypertension is high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as it flows through them.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hypertension is high blood pressure . Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as it flows through them.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Hunger is a normal desire for food. Hyperphagia and polyphagia refer to being focused only on eating (gluttony), or eating excessively before feeling full. These can be symptoms of various disorders.
Source:ADAM
Date:August 15, 2007
Excessive volume of urination means that you release abnormally large amounts of urine each day. The medical term for this condition is polyuria.
Source:ADAM
Date:January 24, 2008
Anorexia is characterized by a loss of appetite or lack of desire to eat. Anorexia is common in cancer patients with reported incidence between 15% and 40%.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Nausea is the sensation of having an urge to vomit. Vomiting is forcing the contents of the stomach up through the esophagus and out of the mouth.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 25, 2007
Nausea is the sensation of having a queasy stomach or being about to vomit. Vomiting , or emesis, is the expelling of undigested food through the mouth.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Waking up several times a night to urinate is called nocturia.
Source:ADAM
Date:June 5, 2007
Unintentional weight gain is an increase in body weight that occurs when a person takes in more calories than the body needs or uses, causing increased fat storage.
Source:ADAM
Date:April 26, 2007
Substances emitted from the vagina can vary in consistency (thick, pasty, thin), color (clear, cloudy), and smell (normal, odorless, bad odor).
Source:ADAM
Date:August 17, 2007
This is a vaginal infection caused most commonly by the fungal organism Candida albicans .
Source:ADAM
Date:May 12, 2008
Vaginal Infection: Yeast (Candidiasis)Yeast infection occurs when yeast in the vagina increase and start attacking the vaginal tissues. Yeast is not bacteria, but a type of fungus.
Source:StayWell
Date:December 29, 2003
Visual disturbances are abnormalities of sight. Visual disturbances associated with neurological disorders often include double vision (diplopia), moving or blurred vision due to nystagmus (involuntary rapid movements of the eyes), reduced visual acuity, reduced visual field, and partial or total loss of vision as in papilledema, a swelling of the optic disc, or in blindness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Total blindness is the inability to tell light from dark, or the total inability to see. Visual impairment or low vision is a severe reduction in vision that can ' t be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses and reduces a person ' s ability to function at certain or all tasks.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
What Is Low Vision?When you have low vision, you need more than glasses or contact lenses to see well enough to get around and do day-to-day tasks.
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Treatment for Low VisionUsing vision aids can help you do the things you need and want to do. There are many kinds of vision aids.
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Vomiting is the forceful discharge of stomach contents through the mouth. Vomiting, also called emesis, is a symptomatic response to any number of harmful triggers.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Weakness is a reduction in the strength of one or more muscles.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 17, 2007
The term overweight is used to describe an excess amount of total body weight including all tissues (fat, bone, muscle, etc.) and water.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
See physical activity and intentional weight loss ...
Source:ADAM
Date:November 13, 2007
Weight loss is a reduction in body mass characterized by a loss of adipose tissue (body fat) and skeletal muscle. Unintentional weight loss is the most common symptom of cancer and often a side effect of cancer treatments.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
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