Re: 3 day diet before 3 hour GDT???

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At Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Susan wrote: >
>I failed the one hour glucose test with a number of 200. I am taking
>the three hour test Friday morning, but they told me I have to follow a
>special diet that contains A LOT of sugar, syrups and jellys for three
>days. I have yet to see anyone else talk about being put on any special
>diet before doing the fast and three hour test, is this diet common or
>unusual? I also have concerns that this high sugar diet, definitely more
>than I normally eat, is going to make the numbers really high for this
>test making it look worse than it possibly is. Is this true or will it
>produce a more accurate number somehow? I am 18 weeks pregnant at 35
>years old with a previous intrauterine death at 20 weeks.
>
>--
>Susan
>

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J Wang, M.D
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Tufts University School of Medicine

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