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Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar diagnosed during pregnancy and usually causes no obvious symptoms. Nutrition, safe exercise, glucose monitoring and medicines if needed reduce risks for parent and baby. Monitoring remains necessary after birth because of an increased risk of diabetes.
- Most people have no noticeable symptoms and feel healthy when screening shows high glucose.
- Excessive thirst, frequent urination, blurred vision, tiredness or recurrent fungal infections may occur but are not specific.
- Measure and record glucose exactly as agreed. Wash and dry your hands before a finger-prick test to avoid falsely high readings.
- Eat regularly and do not skip meals when using insulin or glucose-lowering medicines.
- Contact your care team the same day for repeated glucose readings above or below agreed limits, ketones or uncertainty about adjusting medicines.
- For urgent GP care outside office hours, call HAP 9252. Call Ambulance 912 only for an immediate threat to life.
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