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Symptoms of Gestational diabetes
Symptoms of Gestational diabetes
The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Gestational diabetes includes the 3 symptoms listed below:
- No early symptoms
- Mild symptoms
- Mild Type 2 diabetes symptoms - see Type 2 diabetes
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- Other Causes -- causes of these or similar symptoms
Gestational diabetes: Complications
Review medical complications possibly associated with Gestational diabetes:
- Complications for mother (see Pregnancy symptoms)
- Type 2 diabetes - many women with GDM will later get Type 2 diabetes.
- Impaired Glucose Tolerance - GDM may lead to IGT, milder than Type 2 diabetes.
- Insulin resistance
- Complications for baby (see Birth symptoms) - the baby can suffer if the mother does not control diabetic blood sugar levels adequately.
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Diagnostic Testing
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Gestational diabetes: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Gestational diabetes?
The list of other diseases or medical conditions that may be on the differential diagnosis list of alternative diagnoses for Gestational diabetes includes:
- Type 1 diabetes - Unlikely but possible to get Type 1 diabetes during pregnancy.
- Type 2 diabetes - Possible to get Type 2 diabetes during pregnancy.
- Gestational impaired glucose tolerance (type of Impaired glucose tolerance) - a mild impairment that is not yet diabetes.
- MODY diabetes
- Impaired Glucose Tolerance
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See the full list of 11 alternative diagnoses for Gestational diabetes
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More information about symptoms of Gestational diabetes and related conditions:
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Other Possible Causes of these Symptoms
Click on any of the symptoms below to see a full list of other causes including diseases, medical conditions, toxins, drug interactions, or drug side effect causes of that symptom.
- Mild symptoms - see all causes of Vague symptoms
- Mild Type 2 diabetes symptoms - see all causes of Diabetes-like symptoms
- No early symptoms - see all causes of No symptoms
Medical Books Online about Gestational diabetes
Medical Books Excerpts Excerpts of published medical book chapters related to Gestational diabetes are available from published medical books for more detailed information about Gestational diabetes.
- "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis" (1999)
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- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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- "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
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Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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Diabetes insipidus:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
The patient’s history typically shows an abrupt onset of extreme polyuria (usually 4 to 16 L/day of dilute urine but sometimes as much as 30 L/day). As a result, the patient is extremely thirsty and drinks great quantities of water to compensate for the body’s water loss. This disorder may also result in nocturia. In severe cases, it may lead to extreme fatigue from inadequate rest caused by frequent voiding and excessive thirst.
Other characteristic features of diabetes insipidus include signs and symptoms of dehydration (poor tissue turgor, dry mucous membranes, constipation, muscle weakness, dizziness, and hypotension). These symptoms usually begin abruptly, commonly appearing within 1 to 2 days after a basal skull fracture, a stroke, or surgery. Relieving cerebral edema or increased intracranial pressure may cause all of these symptoms to subside just as rapidly as they began.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Diabetes mellitus:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Diabetes may begin dramatically with ketoacidosis or insidiously. Its most common symptom is fatigue from energy deficiency and a catabolic state. Insulin deficiency causes hyperglycemia, which pulls fluid from body tissues, causing osmotic diuresis, polyuria, dehydration, polydipsia, dry mucous membranes, poor skin turgor and, in most patients, unexplained weight loss.
In ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic nonketotic syndrome, dehydration may cause hypovolemia and shock. Wasting of glucose in the urine usually produces weight loss and hunger in type 1 diabetes, even if the patient eats voraciously.
Long-term effects of diabetes may include retinopathy, nephropathy, atherosclerosis, and peripheral and autonomic neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy usually affects the hands and feet and may cause numbness or pain. Autonomic neuropathy may manifest itself in several ways, including gastroparesis (leading to delayed gastric emptying and a feeling of nausea and fullness after meals), nocturnal diarrhea, impotence, and orthostatic hypotension.
Because hyperglycemia impairs the patient’s resistance to infection, diabetes may result in skin and urinary tract infections (UTIs) and vaginitis. Glucose content of the epidermis and urine encourages bacterial growth.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Indications for diagnostic screening for maternal diabetes mellitus during pregnancy include obesity, excessive weight gain, excessive hunger or thirst, polyuria, recurrent monilial infections, glycosuria, previous delivery of a large neonate, polyhydramnios, maternal hypertension, and a family history of diabetes.
Uncontrolled diabetes in a pregnant female can cause stillbirth, fetal anomalies, premature delivery, and birth of a neonate who’s large or small for gestational age. Such neonates are predisposed to severe episodes of hypoglycemia shortly after birth and may also develop hypocalcemia, hyperbilirubinemia, and respiratory distress syndrome.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Acetone breath, Kussmaul’s respirations, dehydration, weak and thready pulse, nausea, vomiting, altered level of consciousness, dry mucous membranes, serum glucose level of 300 to 1,500 mg/dl
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Typically, clinical features of hereditary fructose intolerance appear shortly after dietary introduction of foods containing fructose or sucrose. Symptoms are more severe in infants than in older people and include hypoglycemia, nausea, vomiting, pallor, excessive sweating, cyanosis, and tremor. In neonates and young children, continuous ingestion of foods containing fructose may result in failure to thrive, hypoglycemia, jaundice, hyperbilirubinemia, ascites, hepatomegaly, vomiting, dehydration, hypophosphatemia, albuminuria, aminoaciduria, seizures, coma, febrile episodes, substernal pain, and anemia.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Clinical manifestations of adolescent pregnancy are the same as those of adult pregnancy (amenorrhea, nausea, vomiting, breast tenderness, fatigue). However, the pregnant adolescent is much more likely to develop complications, such as poor weight gain during pregnancy, premature labor, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. In addition, the neonate is more likely to be of low birth weight. Some of these complications are related to the pregnant adolescent’s physical immaturity, rapid growth, interest in fad diets, and generally poor nutrition; other complications may stem from the adolescent’s need to deny her condition or to her ignorance of early signs of pregnancy, which often delays initiation of prenatal care.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Typical clinical features of cardiovascular disease during pregnancy include distended jugular veins, diastolic murmurs, moist basilar pulmonary crackles, cardiac enlargement (discernible on percussion or as a cardiac shadow on chest X-ray), and cardiac arrhythmias (other than sinus or paroxysmal atrial tachycardia). Other characteristic abnormalities may include cyanosis, pericardial friction rub, pulse delay, and pulsus alternans.
Decompensation may develop suddenly or gradually, with persistent crackles at the lung bases. As it progresses, edema, increasing dyspnea on exertion, palpitations, a smothering sensation, and hemoptysis may occur.
Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
The patient’s history typically shows an abrupt onset of extreme polyuria (usually 4 to 16 L/day of dilute urine, but sometimes as much as 30 L/day). As a result, the patient is extremely thirsty and drinks great quantities of water to compensate for the body’s water loss. This disorder may also result in hourly nocturia.
If the patient is unable to obtain adequate quantities of water, features of diabetes insipidus include signs and symptoms of dehydration (poor tissue turgor, dry mucous membranes, constipation, muscle weakness, dizziness, and hypotension). Polyuria usually begins abruptly, commonly appearing within 1 to 2 days after a basal skull fracture, a stroke, or surgery.
Relieving cerebral edema or increased intracranial pressure may cause all of these symptoms to subside just as rapidly as they began.
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Diabetes may begin dramatically with ketoacidosis in type 1 or insidiously. Its most common symptom is fatigue, from energy deficiency and a catabolic state. However, many patients with type 2 diabetes may be asymptomatic.
Insulin deficiency or resistance causes hyperglycemia, which pulls fluid from body tissues, causing osmotic diuresis, polyuria, dehydration, polydipsia, dry mucous membranes, and poor skin turgor. In ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic state, dehydration may cause hypovolemia and shock. Wasting of glucose in the urine usually produces weight loss and hunger in uncontrolled type 1 diabetes, even if the patient eats voraciously.
In diabetes, long-term effects may include retinopathy, nephropathy, atherosclerosis, and peripheral and autonomic neuropathy.
Peripheral neuropathy usually affects the hands and feet and may cause numbness or pain. Autonomic neuropathy may manifest itself in several ways, including gastroparesis (leading to delayed gastric emptying and a feeling of nausea and fullness after meals), nocturnal diarrhea, impotence, and postural hypotension.
Because hyperglycemia impairs the patient’s resistance to infection, diabetes may result in skin and urinary tract infections and vaginitis. Glucose content of the epidermis and urine encourages bacterial growth.
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
All women should receive diagnostic screening for maternal diabetes mellitus during pregnancy. Women at higher risk or with a history of gestational diabetes, fetal or birth problems, may warrant early screening in the second trimester using a formal glucose tolerance test.
Uncontrolled diabetes in a pregnant woman can cause stillbirth, fetal anomalies, premature delivery, and birth of an infant who is large or small for gestational age. Such infants are predisposed to severe episodes of hypoglycemia shortly after birth. These infants may also develop hypocalcemia, hyperbilirubinemia, and respiratory distress syndrome.
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
Typical signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy include neck vein distention, diastolic murmurs, moist basilar pulmonary crackles, cardiac enlargement (discernible on percussion or as a cardiac shadow on a chest X-ray), and cardiac arrhythmias (other than sinus or paroxysmal atrial tachycardia). Other characteristic abnormalities include cyanosis, pericardial friction rub, pulse delay, and alternating pulse.
Clinical tip Mitral valve prolapse is most common. Its accompanying signs and symptoms include rapid heart rate, palpitations, and mitral insufficiency or murmur. Echocardiography confirms the condition. Decompensation may develop suddenly or gradually, with persistent crackles at the lung bases. As it progresses, edema, increasing exertional dyspnea, palpitations, a smothering sensation, and hemoptysis may occur.
Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
When considering symptoms of Gestational diabetes, it is also important to consider Gestational diabetes as a possible cause of other medical conditions.
The Disease Database lists the following medical conditions that Gestational diabetes may cause:
Diabetic complications during pregnancy:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Diabetic ketoacidosis:
Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Hereditary fructose intolerance:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Adolescent pregnancy:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Cardiovascular disease in pregnancy:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Diabetes insipidus:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Diabetes mellitus:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Long-term effects
Diabetic complications during pregnancy:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Cardiovascular disease in pregnancy:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
Gestational diabetes as a Cause of Symptoms or Medical Conditions
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Gestational diabetes as a symptom:
For a more detailed analysis of Gestational diabetes as a symptom, including causes, drug side effect causes, and drug interaction causes, please see our Symptom Center information for Gestational diabetes.
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About signs and symptoms of Gestational diabetes:
The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible signs and symptoms of Gestational diabetes. This signs and symptoms information for Gestational diabetes has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of Gestational diabetes signs or Gestational diabetes symptoms. Furthermore, signs and symptoms of Gestational diabetes may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of any signs or symptoms and whether they are indeed Gestational diabetes symptoms.
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