Question 1

what is the oral glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

See details: You drink a glucose preparation (glucola) and your blood glucose is checked before you drink it and at intervals up to 3 or 5 hours after you drink it.

Question 2

what's a one hour oral glucose tolerance test?

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Screen test: Popular test in obstetrics to identify  gestational diabetes : blood sugar is drawn, the patient drinks 75 gm of glucose in the form of glucola and blood sugar is drawn 1 hr after.

Question 3

home ogtt (oral glucose tolerance test), how to do it?

Accepted Answer

Not an approved test: Hi. You could conceivably weigh out 75 grams of glucose at home and use a finger stick blood glucose meter and do something very similar to a real, diagnostic Standard 2-Hour OGTT, and get a good sense for your glycemic status, but there is no test approved for home diagnosis. Serum glucose should be used (not  whole capillary blood). If you want an OGTT, I surest you go get a real one. Good luck!

Question 4

can i not drink anything before a glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

Water only: You can have water but nothing else.

Question 5

can a hypoglycemic person have a normal glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

Depends: The glucose tolerance test is designed to screen for elevated blood sugar, for diabetes.
People with symptoms of hypoglycemia may be responding to a drop in blood sugar, which may not go below the normal range, sometimes a 3 or 5 hour GTT is used to screen for hypoglycemia. If this is normal, there may be some other cause of the symptoms besides hypoglycemia, .

Question 6

can taking glucosamine daily affect the glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

Not at all: Studies have been done with animals , they were given massive amount of glucosamine and they did not develop glucose intolerance.

Question 7

my glucose tolerance test result was 10.8. what should i be doing.

Accepted Answer

Glucose Tolerance: This makes no sense. At least in american medicine. There should be several results.  I would bet that with this number, though, you need to meet with your doctor and/or the diabetes education clinic to learn how to eat and test and manage your health better.

Question 8

can you be diagnosed diabetic from glucose tolerance test results?

Accepted Answer

Yes: A fasting blood sugar of at least 126 mg/dl or 2-hour post prandial blood sugar of at least 200 mg/dl is diagnostic of diabetes.

Question 9

do they prick your skin or withdraw for 3 hr glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

Blood draw: Finger stick glucoses aren't accurate enough for the test.

Question 10

could i lose too much blood for doing a 2 hours glucose tolerance test?

Accepted Answer

No: No, you won't. They don't need that much blood for a glucose test.

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