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When you decide to get pregnant, you should be careful of diabetes because even you don’t have any diabetes history, it can harm you if you are age more than 30 years old, have diabetes mellitus history in the family, obesity, and have fall prematurely experience more than one times.

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, diabetes gestational can influence offer 4% of pregnant woman. During pregnancy, woman may have diabetes gestational because of hormonal change or the term of blood to produce insulin getting short. Sometimes this disease can’t be detected, and it can come without any sign. However, you can still indicate these diseases through some symptoms like weight decreasing without any cause, tired all the time, become numb in arm or leg, eye blurred, and itchiness in vagina area.

To indicate the diabetes gestational, pregnant woman should do a screening diabetes oral test, which should be done within 24-28 weeks pregnancy or at early stage of pregnancy if the pregnancy claims as a high risk pregnancy. This screening test can conclude directly the abnormal carbohydrate of metabolism. If woman has been diagnosed with diabetes gestational, she should be under control of diabetic expert. The doctor will control the glycemia maternal to avoid yellow skin or hypoglycaemia at your baby. Beside that, if she didn’t do it, she can have difficulty while delivering the baby.

After you read the above, I know there will be an important question: “how we controlled diabetes gestational?”. Well, the ways to control are plan a combining diet for diabetes, do some simple sport, and medication to control the blood sugar degree into normal, optimal baby growth, avoid hungry, and keep away from complication.

1. Food Combining

While suffering from diabetes gestational and your blood sugar less than 130 mg/dL you need diet program for a week. Pregnant woman with diabetes gestational should consulate with a nutrient expert, and stay away from sweet food like cookies, candy, ice cream, and consume fruits. If your blood sugar has decreased until 105mg/dL until 120 mg/dL, then you should continue your diet plan. Then, continue with insulin injection.

Insulin may be injected if within 2 weeks after having the diet program the blood sugar still not decrease into the degree that have planned before.

2. Sport

Besides food combining, simple sports like yoga or swimming also good for the therapy. Sports can help mother keeping the blood sugar degree and maintain emotion.

Women who have diabetes gestational may have diabetes mellitus (DM) type-2 and cardiovascular complication that caused from abnormal fat serum, hypertension, and obesity. That’s why, healthy life should continue after having a baby. Woman with this diabetes gestational is also suggested to have 75 gram glucose oral test from the 6th until 12th week after delivering the baby. When the result has been normal, then she should take the test for at least 3 years after that.

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