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Food is the most important tool for treating gestational diabetes, and currently the most effective way to treat this disorder that develops during pregnancy.

It is essential to control this problem to avoid possible negative effects on the health of the mother and the unborn child, and is therefore very important that pregnant women adapt their diet to their particular circumstances.

Through proper diet if you suffer from gestational diabetes can control blood glucose levels, thereby ensuring adequate child growth and welfare.

The diet when you have gestational diabetes

The diet consists of bringing a varied and balanced diet, rich in fiber and low-dose intake of carbohydrate as eliminating carbohydrates, rapidly absorbed, and also control the intake of calories.

Carbohydrates are sugars found in foods, some of them spend the bloodstream quickly raise blood glucose levels sharply, and the others go more slowly and with a more complex metabolic process.

Should be removed from the diet rapid carbohydrate absorption, which are sugar, chocolates, candies, sweets, desserts, quince, cream, ice cream, honey, jams, pastries, etc.. Read the rest of this entry »

Temporary resistance to insulin during pregnancy. The so-called gestational diabetes occurring during pregnancy at a rate of 1% to 14% of patients, and almost always debut between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy.

Sometimes it may persist after birth and is associated with increased maternal disorders (hypertension or high blood pressure, vaginal infections and urinary tract, premature delivery and caesarean) and serious harm to the baby (macrosomia fetal death, ie overgrowth of the product because it is exposed to more glucose than usual this is because it stimulates your pancreas secretes insulin abundance increases their development, which can lead to injury at the time of passing through the birth canal .)

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As your pregnancy progresses your doctor or midwife you will become a series of tests and exams to determine if everything is progressing well and whether you’re developing a complication that can put you or your baby at risk.

Although these diseases are rare, it is best to diagnose a good time to try to do everything possible to make your pregnancy reaches a successful conclusion.

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Diabetes is a disease that causes alterations in the smaller vessels, which are in the eyes and kidneys.

Diabetic retinopathy is divided into stages according to clinical features. It ranges from a little bleeding that can grow up to produce retinal detachment and glaucoma in advanced stages. Therefore, the most important thing is to control blood sugar levels to prevent future complications appear in the eyes.

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Hypoglycemia: Hypoglycemia is common in the first half of pregnancy, especially in the first quarter. Fortunately, the fetus tolerates well hypoglycemia.

Diabetic ketoacidosis: is a real danger, contrary to what occurs with hypoglycemia, is fatal to the fetus

Retinopathy (damage to the retina) retinopathy is already present in many women in early pregnancy, and may progress as it moves. Regular ophthalmoscopy is therefore important. Paradoxically, the progression of retinopathy may be related to the initiation of a strict metabolic control. When neovascularization occurs, can be controlled with photocoagulation, and it is therefore an indication for abortion.

Nephropathy (kidney damage): diabetic nephropathy in pregnant women is defined as the presence during the first half of pregnancy, proteinuria (protein in urine), persistent over 400 mg in 24 hours, in the absence of infection.

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During normal pregnancy metabolic adaptations occur, aimed at correcting the imbalance that occurs when you need a higher nutritive supply to the fetus. One of these imbalances is that the body needs more insulin delivery to require a greater use of glucose.

Pregnant women undergoes many changes during its gestation process nausea, drowsiness, tiredness, weakness, among others but when they are diabetic are more noticeable changes.

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Insulin therapy can be given earlier for the physically Diabetes Mellitus (DM) or type-2 diabetes who need, but not the last such therapy which is believed all along.

So far not a lot of insulin therapy is given to people with type-2 DM, because this therapy is considered as the last therapy or therapy for patients nearing death. As a result patients often refuse given insulin therapy, doctors also rarely want to give it, mostly because it considers the procedure is too complicated and troublesome because they have the patience to train the patient to inject insulin. And they are not.

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