Pregnancy Diabetes or Gestation Diabetes AFTER DELIVERY | Glucose Challenge Test

"This is the commonest question asked by all the patients, the answer is no, gestational diabetes is the diabetes appearing the first time in pregnancy and most of them will disappear after pregnancy. It disappears so fast that the day after delivery their sugars crash back to normal. After the delivery what we do is we allow the patients to have a normal diet and we check their sugars 6 weeks after delivery by doing the oral glucose challenge test and if the oral glucose challenge test is abnormal that is the value is more than 140 mg per decilitre then we tell them that they remain diabetes, but the chances of gestational diabetes turning not diabetes immediately after delivery, the chances are very low, having said this there are occasional where the gestational diabetes who have been out in high dose of insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents they have the chance to remain diabetic even after delivery but their requirement of insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents will come down. For patients who have not been found to be diabetic about 6 weeks after delivery, however we advise that they may turn diabetic later in their life, maybe about 5 to 10 years later. So to prevent that do lifestyle modification, as in follow the diet. Go for regular exercises, watch their weight and that way they can avoid becoming diabetic for the rest of their life or they can postpone the onset of diabetes or if they get diabetes atleast they can avoid taking medications like insulin oral hypoglycaemic agents and if at all they require insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents the dose would be very small"