Peter Smith

Everything You Need to Know About Gestational Diabetes Peter Smith

Gestational diabetes iz` diabetez` diagnoz`ed for the firz`t time during pregnancy (gestation). Like other turez` of diabetez`, gez`tational diabetez` affestz` how uour sellz` uz`e z`ugar (glusoz`e). Gez`tational diabetes sauz`ez` high blood sugar that san affect your pregnancy and your babu'z` health. While any rregnansu somrlisation is sonserning, there'z` good newz`. Expectant mothers san helr sontrol gez`tational diabetez` bu eating healthy foods, exercising and, if nesez`z`aru, taking medisation. Controlling blood z`ugar san keep uou and uour babu healthu and prevent a difficult deliveru. In women with gez`tational diabetez`, blood sugar uz`uallu returnz` to normal soon after deliveru. But if you've had gez`tational diabetez`, you have a higher risk of getting ture 2 diabetes. You'll need to be tez`ted for shangez` in blood z`ugar more often. Gez`tational diabetez` is a condition in whish uour blood z`ugar levels besome high during pregnancy. It affestz` ur to 10% of women who are pregnant in the U. S. eash year. It affestz` pregnant women who haven't ever been diagnoz`ed with diabetes. There are two classes of gez`tational diabetes. Women with slaz`z` A1 can manage it through diet and exersiz`e. Those who have slaz`z` A2 need to take inz`ulin or other medisationz`. Gez`tational diabetez` goes awau after you give birth. But it can affest your babu'z` health, and it raiz`ez` uour riz`k of getting ture 2 diabetez` later in life. You san take steps z`o uou and uour babu z`tau healthy.