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Posted: 26 Jun 2011 10:22 AM PDT

I am about 6 or 7 weeks pregnant and as I live in Italy, I had a million blood tests done. When the results came back my blood sugar level showed 94 ml/dl, which my GP here said is very high. Which is strange, because before pregnancy, when my diet was not so sensible, my blood sugar was always very low.

I check labels and never eat anything with added fructose, sucrose etc and don't eat much fruit except bananas with my breakfast. I stopped drinking caffe latte with the breafast biscuits a few months back because I calculated the calorie and sugar content to be too high and I switched to Weetabix with milk, and since pregnancy, I've added a glass of orange juice with no added sugar to my breakfast, to help absorb the iron. Apart from indulging in chocolate cravings in the evenings a few weeks ago, around the time the blood was taken i'd eat a small KitKat or mini Twix), I've not consciously been eating any more sugar than that and my diet has been much healthier.

The blood was taken in the morning before breakfast and the night before i had eaten a couple of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, maybe 4 maximum. Would this account for the high blood sugar and should I be worried?

I'm not sure what to cut out of my diet, excpet maybe the orange juice, which I enjoy now (previously I never drank fruit juice much), and chocolate, obviously, but I have gone off sweet stuff now and crave savoury things.

Maybe I should add that on the last page of results they made a typing error and put that I was a man!!!! I think it is unlikely that they tested the wrong blood as on the other pages it had my correct name, address, DOB and said woman... also they were tests specifically for pregnancy. But then again, in a private clinic, you don't expect typing mistakes and I don't have 100% faith that they are my results.

Also, I should mention that I feel Italian doctors to be overly sealous sometimes and there is a fear of things like wind and rain (don't go outside if it is windy! don't go outside if it's raining, unless you have an umbrella!) and it seems to me that they treat pregnancy as a sickness, rather than just getting on with it (stay away from cats, they are very dangerous when youa re pregnant! (seriously, i was given this info, i know about toxoplasmosis but come on!) and don't do anything! stay in bed! don't exert yourself!). In England, I imagine i'd be told to just get on with my life, don't go on any rollercoasters or partake in bunjyjumping etc but enjoy the pregnancy.

Advice would be appreciated! Thank you

Answer on High blood sugar in pregnancy?

I would think you may be a little higher with a pregnancy, but 94 is not really high.

Normal Fasting Blood Sugar

A normal fasting blood sugar (which is also the blood sugar a normal person will see right before a meal) is:

83 mg/dl (4.6 mmol/L) or less.

Many normal people have fasting blood sugars in the mid and high 70 mg/dl (3.9 mmol/L) range.

Though most doctors will tell you any fasting blood sugar under 100 mg/dl (5.6 mmol/L) is "normal", there are several studies that suggest that testing with a fasting blood sugar in the mid 90 mg/dl (5 mmol/L) range often predicts diabetes that is diagnosed a decade later.

Post-Meal Blood Sugar (Postprandial)

Independent of what they eat, the blood sugar of a truly normal person is:

Under 120 mg/dl (6.6 mmol/L) one or two hours after a meal.

Most normal people are under 100 mg/dl (5.5 mmol/L) two hours after eating.

I would exercise daily and start a low glycemic index diet . This is great for the whole family also. No carb counting.

http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

You and the baby take care

Tin

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