Gestational Diabetes

Introduction:

• It is any change in blood sugar level, first diagnosed during pregnancy, whether or not it persists after childbirth.
• Gestational sugar often disappears immediately after birth.
• It occurs when placenta hormones prevent the body from using insulin effectively, resulting in blood sugar remaining rather than absorbing it with cells.
• The condition is diagnosed as "gestational diabetes", whether a woman needs insulin or just an adjustment in her diet.

Risk factors:

Although it may affect all pregnant women, the likelihood of it occurring may increase in the following cases:

• Advancing age. 
• Family history. 
• Weight gain.
• Previous birth with a high birth weight baby.

Complications: 

• Weight gain for the baby. 
• Low blood sugar immediately after birth.
• Fetal abnormalities. 
• Increase the likelihood of a mother getting pregnant poisoning.

Treatment:

 Diabetes

Treatment varies according to age, health status, and others, and includes:

• Diet modification.
• Do physical activity.
• Insulin. 

Instructions:

• Maintaining blood sugar level, monitoring it at home, and recording results.
• Make sure to visit the clinics for pregnant women and the diabetes clinic regularly and at the specified times.
• Maintaining blood sugar level, monitoring it at home, and recording results.
• Do physical activity according to the doctor's instructions.
• Check your urine daily for ketones.
• Avoid using diabetes medications and any other medications.