What Is the Gestational Diabetes?

Diabetes Gestacional

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What is the gestational diabetes?

The gestational diabetes is a diabete’s type that develops only in the pregnancy.

Diabetes means that your blood glucose is too high. The body use the glucose to obtain energy. Have a lot of glucose in the blood is not good for the woman and her baby.

Usually, gestational diabetes is diagnosed in the last stage of the pregnancy. If diabetes is diagnosed in a early stage of the pregnancy, is posible that you have diabetes before becoming pregnant .

Treat gestational diabetes can help you and your baby to stay healthy. Can protect your baby and protect yourself taking medicine to control your glucose’s level on your blood.

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If you have gestational diabetes, is probably that a health care team involved in your care. Also your obstetrician-gynecologist who will attend your birth can include in his/her team a diabetes’s doctor, a teacher of diabetes and a nutritionist to help you with your food’s plan.

Which are the causes of the gestational diabetes?

The gestational diabetes is produce when the body can’t produce enough insulin during the pregnancy. The insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, an organ located behind the stomach. The insulin helps the body to use the glucose to obtain energy and help to control our levels of glucose of the blood.

During the pregnancy, the body produce much hormone and pass for others change, as weight gain. This changes cause that cells of the body use less insulin, an affection denominate insulin resistance. Insulin resistance increases the need of insulin in our body. If the pancreas can’t produce enough insulin, will have gestational diabetes.

All the pregnant women have some insulin resistance during the last stage off the pregnancy. However, some women have insulin resistance before get pregnant, because usually their have overweight. This women start the pregnancy with much necessity of insulin and they‘re most susceptible to have gestational diabetes.

Nutrition and Diet

Your health care team help you to develop a health nutrition’s plan with options of foods that are appropriate for you and your baby. This options are appropriate for you to take during all your pregnancy and later.

Use a health nutrition’s plan helps your glucose level in your blood maintained at health range. Plan help you to know with food eat, how much eat and when eat. The food option, amount and moments are important to keep your blood glucose levels in the correct range.

Physical Activity

Physical Activity can help you to reach the correct blood glucose levels. Talk with your doctor about the type of activity are good for you. If you already do exercise, tell to your doctor what do you do. Doing exercise also help to reduce the probability to have diabetes type 2, and your problems in the