Q: what can i do address impaired glucose tolerance?

Healthy lifestyle: Generally, treating impaired glucose tolerance successfully may prevent patients from progressing to develop diabetes. Lifestyle changes are imperative and include healthy eating, exercise, and quality sleep. Involving a nutritionist or a wellness center, if available, can be very helpful also. Please discuss this with your doctor.

Q: what does it mean to have impaired glucose tolerance?

A form of prediabete: The gold standard for diagnosing diabetes is to drink a very high sugar test drink and measure blood glucose at up to 2 hours after. Normal people will have a 2 hr blood glucose of 200 but for people who are 140-199, the term impaired glucose tolerance is used. This means an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and need for a healthier diet and weight loss

Q: what can i do to imrove impaired glucose tolerance m on diet excercise can it be normal?

Diet: You can improve impaired glucose tolerance by losing weight and following a diet with no concentrated sweets(sugar, pastries, candy, soft drinks, high sugar friuts) and reducing your starch(bread, rice, pasta) intake.

Q: do i need a glucose tolerance test?

Yes: You actually need a glucose challenge test (gct) in pregnancy, which is a 1 hour screening test for gestational diabetes. If your screening test is abnormal then you need the glucose tolerance test (gtt), which is typically a 3 hour test. It is very important that all women are screened for gestational diabetes in their pregnancies.

Q: how do i do a glucose tolerance test?

GTT at home: Glucose tolerance testing is done less frequently now a days. You can do your own home version geta home glucose testing kit. Do the 1st blood glucose after an overnight fast, have a very hearty breakfast and do a bl glucose 1 hour and 2 hrs after the breakfast. Your fasting bl glucose should be below 200 if above 200 you do not need to do the test, you have diabetes and the result will not cha.

Q: i got a glucose tolerance test, now what?

Screen for diabetes: A normal test can help you feel better that you don't have diabetes. An abnormal test can fall into two buckets - either borderline or frankly diabetic. The cutoffs for "abnormal" are different depending on why you had the test. This is a good thing to speak to the ordering physician about.

Q: can you tell me about glucose tolerance test, now what?

Test: Hi. The most standardized test for diabetes, the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test generates data for fasting and a "postprandial" in response to a standard caloric challenge (75 grams of glucose) measured 2 hr after the glucose. Based on criteria for the fasting and 2 hour post-challenge glucoses, you are either normal, diabetic, or the gray zone in between, pre diabetes. Eat healthy diet &amp; exercise!

Q: what should i do to make my glucose tolerance test easy tomorrow?

Relax: Just show up, drink the glucola and let them draw your blood. It is not a big deal.

Q: can impaired glucose tolerance can come back to normal what causes it?

Yes: It is reflective of a tendency toward diabetes. It can return to normal, but it should encourage u to habits that normalize your blood sugar and general health. These include diet and exercise. A diet lower in starch (bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, ) and higher in low starch vegetables and low sugar fruits, is healthier for anyone. Some protein w each meal. Daily exercise, do it, anything u will do.

Question 1

what is the definition or description of: glucose tolerance fbs/2hr?

Accepted Answer

See below: Glucose tolerance, i.e.: normal sugars are fasting<100, 2 hours after eating<140

glucose intolerance, i.e.: not normal =

 fasting sugar 100-125 is pre-diabetes and 2-hrs after eating 140-199 is
prediabetes.

Fasting 126 and higher and 2 hours after eating 200 and greater is diabetes

won't get symptoms until frequently or consistently ofter 180; then thirst, frequent urination, hunger.

Question 2

what can i do address impaired glucose tolerance?

Accepted Answer

Healthy lifestyle: Generally, treating impaired glucose tolerance successfully may prevent patients from progressing to develop diabetes.  Lifestyle changes are imperative and include healthy eating, exercise, and quality sleep. Involving a nutritionist or a wellness center, if available, can be very helpful also.  Please discuss this with your doctor.

Question 3

what does it mean to have impaired glucose tolerance?

Accepted Answer

A form of prediabete: The gold standard for diagnosing diabetes is to drink a very high sugar test drink and measure blood glucose at up to 2 hours after.  Normal people will have a 2 hr blood glucose of 200 but for people who are 140-199, the term impaired glucose tolerance is used.  This means an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and need for a healthier diet and weight loss

Question 4

what can i do to imrove impaired glucose tolerance m on diet excercise can it be normal?

Accepted Answer

Diet: You can improve impaired glucose tolerance by losing weight and following a diet with no concentrated sweets(sugar, pastries, candy, soft drinks, high sugar friuts) and reducing your starch(bread, rice, pasta)  intake.

Question 5

do i need a glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

Yes: You actually need a glucose challenge test (gct) in pregnancy, which is a 1 hour screening test for gestational diabetes.  If your screening test is abnormal then you need the glucose tolerance test (gtt), which is typically a 3 hour test.  It is very important that all women are screened for gestational diabetes in their pregnancies.

Question 6

how do i do a glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

GTT at home: Glucose tolerance testing is done less frequently now a days.  You can do your own home version geta home glucose testing kit.  Do the 1st blood glucose after an overnight fast, have a very hearty breakfast and do a bl glucose 1 hour and 2 hrs after the breakfast.  Your fasting bl glucose should be below 200 if above 200 you do not need to do the test, you have diabetes and the result will not cha.

Question 7

i got a glucose tolerance test, now what?

Accepted Answer

Screen for diabetes: A normal test can help you feel better that you don't have diabetes.  An abnormal test can fall into two buckets - either borderline or frankly diabetic.  The cutoffs for "abnormal" are different depending on why you had the test.  This is a good thing to speak to the ordering physician about.

Question 8

can you tell me about glucose tolerance test, now what?

Accepted Answer

Test: Hi. The most standardized test for diabetes, the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test generates data for fasting and a "postprandial" in response to a standard caloric challenge (75 grams of glucose) measured 2 hr after the glucose. Based on criteria for the fasting and 2 hour post-challenge glucoses, you are either normal, diabetic, or the gray zone in between, pre diabetes.  Eat healthy diet &amp; exercise!

Question 9

what should i do to make my glucose tolerance test easy tomorrow?

Accepted Answer

Relax: Just show up, drink the glucola and let them draw your blood. It is not a big deal.

Question 10

can impaired glucose tolerance can come back to normal what causes it?

Accepted Answer

Yes: It is reflective of a tendency toward diabetes. It can return to normal, but it should encourage u to habits that normalize your blood sugar and general health. These include diet and exercise. A diet lower in starch (bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, ) and higher in low starch vegetables and low sugar fruits, is healthier for anyone. Some protein w each meal.  Daily exercise, do it, anything u will do.

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