How to Cut Your Gestational Diabetes Risk
One important part of your pregnancy care process with your maternal fetal medicine specialist is screening for high blood sugar. That’s because gestational diabetes can happen for many reasons, even if you don’t already have diabetes outside of pregnancy. With some extra steps, you can still experience a happy and healthy pregnancy with high blood sugar, so here’s what
GESTATIONAL DIABETES: A RARE DISORDER, Michael Silverstein, MD (Video)
Gestational diabetes is a relatively rare disorder that affects about 3 or 4 out of every 100 patients that are pregnant. This condition is actually the body’s over-zealous response to the baby needing to grow for the last few months of a pregnancy. In order to accomplish that growth, the placenta leaks something into Mom’s
THE FIRST STEPS IN TREATING GESTATIONAL DIABETES, Nathan Fox, MD (Video)
In order to treat gestational diabetes, the first step is to simply adjust the mother’s diet. Eating fewer carbohydrates and more proteins and fats, but also substituting some whole grains and some brown rice for white flour-based carbohydrates can help in probably 80% of women. For the 20% for whom that does not work, various
GUIDE TO GESTATIONAL DIABETES AND PREGNANCY, Nathan Fox, MD (Digital)
Gestational diabetes (GDM) is one of the most common complications during pregnancy, occurring in 3 to 15% of all pregnancies. Some risk factors involved in developing GDM include age, family history of diabetes, ethnicity, inactive lifestyle, and obesity. Once GDM is diagnosed, the most common treatment is diet and exercise to decrease the chance of
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES?, Daniel Saltzman, MD (Digital)
Gestational Diabetes Women experiencing gestational diabetes do not generally experience any symptoms. But patients who have non-pregnancy related diabetes usually experience frequent urination and become extremely thirsty. To determine whether gestational diabetes is present, all pregnant women go through a screening process that consists of two tests, a Glucose Challenge Test (GCT) and a Glucose
