What should pregnant women pay attention to before doing sugar screening

Because diabetes has a great impact on a person's body and can cause many serious complications, pregnant women should try not to have children if they have diabetes, because diabetes is also hereditary. In addition, diabetes may cause deformities and intellectual disabilities in children, so many pregnant women need to undergo sugar screening tests. What should you pay attention to before doing a sugar screening test?

Precautions before sugar screening

Since sugar screening is so important for expectant mothers, do you know the precautions before sugar screening? Many pregnant women do not know how to do it during pregnancy check-ups, and end up going to the hospital. Because they violated the examination regulations, they have to go again next time. If you don’t know how to do sugar screening, you may not do it according to the gestational age, or you may not drink glucose water in advance, which may cause inaccurate sugar screening.

1. Reduce the intake of starch (pasta) and sugar two weeks before the examination. Eat as little staple food as possible, the amount of staple food for each meal should be less than 2 taels; in addition, do not eat high-fat foods, and try not to eat sugary foods; limit the amount of fruit, and do not eat eggs for dinner; eat more vegetables, no less than 500 grams per day, to supplement vitamins and fiber; drink plenty of water and exercise moderately, and take more walks after meals to consume excess sugar.

2. The day before the sugar screening or glucose tolerance test, it is best to eat light vegetarian food and eat less rice. Make stir-fried bitter melon to lower blood sugar.

3. Do not eat after 8 pm the night before and drink less water.

4. Don’t drink powdered sugar too fast. Drink it slowly, little by little. Don’t drink it all in one gulp. Drink it within 3-5 minutes. It is best to walk more after drinking, so that the energy will be consumed within an hour, which will help lower blood sugar levels.

5. Master the time for blood drawing. It should be one hour after you finish drinking. If you start drinking at 7:10 and finish at 7:20, you have to draw the blood again at 8:20.

Please be reminded that the preparations before the sugar screening must be done well. The most important point is: pregnant women must drink sugar water for more than an hour before blood can be drawn! Remember?

How to do sugar screening

It is generally recommended that maternal sugar screening be performed between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy:

1. Pregnant women should not eat after 8 pm before blood test for glucose screening.

2. Pregnant women should have their blood drawn on an empty stomach for sugar screening. Most hospitals schedule it in the morning and will not accept blood drawn after that time.

3. Pregnant women should drink glucose water one hour before blood test for glucose screening (50 grams of glucose dissolved in half a cup of water, drink within 5 minutes).

4. If the journey exceeds one hour, please bring some sugar water to take orally on the way.

Reminder: Pregnant women must drink sugar water for more than an hour before blood can be drawn!