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Gestational Diabetes
Is it Safe for Women to Plan for Pregnancy if they have Diabetes?
If you are a diabetic person or if you have been reading this blog, then you must already be knowing that pregnancy reduces insulin sensitivity of body due to diabetogenic effects of placental hormones and is most maximal in the late second to third trimester. It is a fact that diabetes and pregnancy can create [...]
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Living with Gestational Diabetes
Gestational diabetes is a common condition found in pregnant women but it is treatable and not life threatening. The important factor here is how to manage and live with it if you have gestational diabetes. There are 4 important things: Monitor your blood sugar regularly and let the doctor know so that he can adjust [...]
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Medications for Gestational Diabetes
For the sake of your baby and yourself, watching out on your blood sugar is the best way to ensure your pregnancy is safe when you have gestational diabetes. Many expecting mothers set a diet and exercise plan to maintain the right blood sugar levels, few would have been prescribed oral medicines, while most of [...]
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How to Prevent Gestational Diabetes?
Gestational diabetes can develop in pregnant woman with the rise of pregnancy hormones that makes them glucose intolerant and resistant to insulin. Usually females with family history of diabetes or over weight women are more susceptible to this disease than others. For some, it may lead to Type 2 diabetes after giving birth while others [...]
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Gestational Diabetes and its Symptoms
Aside from Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes is another type that affects non diabetic pregnant women in their fifth or sixth month of pregnancy. The diabetes symptoms may not be as specific and similar to other diabetics. More hormones are produced by the placenta as the pregnancy progresses, blocking other hormones such [...]
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Types of Diabetes
Diabetes is considered to be a syndrome rather than a disease because it leads various complications. There are many types of diabetes but the two main types are type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Prediabetes, juvenile diabetes, gestational diabetes and diabetes insipidus are few other types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is also called as the [...]
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How to Avoid Gestational Diabetes?
Gestational diabetes has become an enemy of pregnant women. Such cases are becoming very common these days and hence, it has become a concern. The problem is high glucose levels in blood that can adversely affect the baby. If the mother has a history of diabetes in family, chances of her falling into the line [...]
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