Treatments for Gestational Diabetes

Treatments for gestational diabetes are basically the same as treatments used for regular diabetics. There are, however, certain differences due to several factors. For one, gestational diabetes only manifests during pregnancy, and usually disappears after. For another thing, gestational diabetes affects both the mother and her unborn child, so any dietary and medical treatments have to take both of them into account.

Normally, insulin shots and a low sugar diet are the main ways to combat diabetes. However, for a woman who is suffering gestational diabetes the insulin shots have to be modulated to ensure that they do not harm the growth and development of the baby. As for the low sugar diet, having TOO low a count of glucose in the body will definitely harm the baby, so again it has to be applied in judicious doses.

Then there's the diet in general. Carbohydrates and fat play their own roles in affecting diabetics, and often these two are curtailed for most diabetics. However, dietary treatments for gestational diabetics have to take into account the increased food demand of a pregnant woman's body, as well as the overall growth of her child. To this end, the usual procedures of carbohydrate counting and monitoring calorie intake are quite different.

Treatments for gestational diabetes [http://gestational-diabetes-cure.blogspot.com/2007/10/gestational-diabetes-and-pregnancy.html] are necessary even though most people would write it off as a relatively harmless and temporary situation. The main reason is that women who develop gestational diabetes and their children are likely to develop regular diabetes later on in life if during pregnancy the situation is left unchecked.

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