Oral Glucose Tolerance Testing

[Kng51]

What is an oral glucose tolerance test? How is it conducted and where?

[sandybrown]

"Oral glucose tolerance test: A test to determine the body's ability to handle glucose ."

" A test of the body's ability to metabolize glucose that involves the administration of a measured dose of glucose to the fasting stomach and the determination of glucose levels in the blood and urine at measured intervals thereafter and that is used especially to detect diabetes mellitus."

You car read a lot of information here :

medicinenet.com/script/main...

What is the reason for this question?

[ramana42 Volunteer]

Please use the search function on top right corner of this web page .You will get access to several earlier posts on this blog site and get all your doubts cleared.

[Activity2004 Administrator]

Hi Kng51 ,

When was your last appointment with your doctor? Did the doctor give you any information dealing with the reason for the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and when it will be scheduled?

[gangadharan_nair]

The glucose tolerance test is a lab test to check how your body moves sugar from the blood into tissues like muscle and fat. The test is often used to diagnose diabetes.

Links:-

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluco...

medlineplus.gov/ency/articl...

medlineplus.gov/ency/articl...

[barani19 Administrator]

Kng51 ,

Please go through my below posting on the same topic sometime ago.

healthunlocked.com/diabetes...