
Some pregnant women have a nasty surprise when they visit the gynecologist: analysis report that have an excess of glucose. With diabetes. This occurs between one and two per cent of expectant mothers. Doctors call this disorder that arises and disappears with pregnancy, gestational diabetes.
This disease is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, caused by a partial or total deficiency of insulin, a hormone that makes blood glucose into cells. There is used as an energy source.
Obviously, this changes the development of pregnancy. Excess blood glucose is a risk to the unborn child and requires a thorough control. The risks of not doing so are serious because diabetes may in some cases to produce several congenital malformations: kidney disorders, heart disease, spina bifida, hydrocephalus ...
Adequate diet
The future mother with gestational diabetes should be monitored throughout pregnancy by an endocrinologist. In some cases, the specialist will advise you
follow a strict diet to control their excess glucose. Sometimes will prescribe insulin injections (tablets are contraindicated because of teratogenic effects, ie, they may cause serious harm to the fetus). Food plays an important role in controlling the disease, pregnant women must rely on insulin, will need to ensure that their menus are varied, with plenty of fruit and rich foods with plenty of fiber. In addition, avoid dishes with saturated fat and cholesterol, and forget about the products that contain sugar or honey and soft drinks and alcohol.
But do not just follow a proper diet, one should also be ordered with meal times and make the six days: three major and three minor. These are allocated as follows: one mid-morning, another in the afternoon and the last shortly before bedtime.
A small effort in the diet will help the disease does not affect fetal development.
Learned that diabetes is often distressing for the patient. However, when dealing with gestational diabetes and the doctor warns that disappear after birth, the diagnosis is well received by the future mother. Women with this problem is very caring, are still indications of a specialist obstetrician and literally, and he or she has no sequel.
But, generally, the position of women suffering from gestational diabetes changes dramatically after birth, most pregnant women with diabetes to monitor their absolute rigor while growing up in the small uterus, are not subject to any control after delivery. But back to the endocrinologist is essential to prevent the onset of this condition in future pregnancies.
Prevention
In addition, these women should ensure a proper diet, avoid by all means more of the kilos and getting tested from time to time. A second reason for not ever forget this transient alteration between 20 and 30 percent of women who have suffered, may be diabetic over the years.
There are some facts that suggest that diabetes appears during pregnancy, have a diabetic family history, having undergone abortions, giving birth to large babies, which changes have occurred in the amniotic fluid in a previous pregnancy and to be obese. In all these cases the best solution is to make a curve of glycemia before conception to dismiss a prior condition.
In medicine, more is never repeated, it is important to prevent. If not monitored there is the slightest sign of diabetes before pregnancy, and followed the gynecologist and endocrinologist in case of suffering from this disease during pregnancy, there is nothing to fear.