Diabetes

 A 34-year-old African-American woman who is 28 weeks pregnant with her second child is seen in your office today for her routine obstetric visit. She has no significant past medical history. She is without complaints and reports good fetal movement. Her past obstetric history includes a full-term normal spontaneous vaginal delivery. Her family history is significant for hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Her 1-hour glucose tolerance test is performed and returns at 159 mg/dL. What would your next step in evaluation and treatment be for this patient? What medication would you prescribe? How much? Write a prescription using the template. Discuss in one to two paragraphs using your text book as your reference all evidence supporting or avoiding the drug you will be prescribing or not prescribing. Discuss alternate medications as well. (70 points) All required patient education including non-pharmacological treatment must be included. (10 points) If there is a major drug interaction discuss each interaction you do not have to list every interaction. (5 points) If labs need to be monitored be sure to discuss which test to be ordered the frequency for monitoring and therapeutic values. (5 points) If you will be prescribing any meds to treat your patient you must use the prescription template filling out each script completely. (10 points) The prescription template is to assist you in writing all meds you prescribed for each case study. Paper format APA use perscription template when perscribing and attach it at the bottom of the paper