Pregnancy diabetes
Gestational diabetes, or gestational diabetes, or gestational diabetes, is a health condition represented by high blood sugar, which is enough to diagnose a woman with diabetes during pregnancy, and this type of health problem usually disappears after the woman gives birth, and it is worth noting that diabetes It can appear during pregnancy at any stage of pregnancy, but it is more common in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, and based on the study published in the Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome in 2019 AD, it was found that there are approximately 4.4% of all Pregnant women all over the world develop gestational diabetes.
Symptoms and signs of gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes is not accompanied by any symptoms or signs in most cases, and sometimes a pregnant woman with this health problem may suffer from more thirst than usual or increased rates of urination than usual, in addition to the possibility of suffering from some other symptoms such as blurred vision within what is known With blurred vision, as well as inflammation of the urinary tract, especially the bladder, and a feeling of nausea or that the woman is about to vomit, as well as a feeling of tiredness and tiredness. Dryness in the mouth, and it should be noted that these symptoms are usually normal symptoms that accompany pregnancy naturally, and it is not required that these symptoms be associated with gestational diabetes.
Causes and risk factors for gestational diabetes
When a person eats food, the body, in turn, breaks down the sugars and starches in the food, breaking them down into the sugar glucose for use in energy production. In fact, an organ in the body secretes a hormone that controls blood sugar levels to keep them within acceptable limits. behind the stomach, and it secretes a hormone known as insulin that controls blood sugar levels as we mentioned, and with regard to pregnancy cases, the placenta secretes important hormones for pregnancy and the health and growth of the fetus, and that these same hormones have an effect on the action and efficiency of insulin
This is what is known as insulin resistance, and this may explain that when the pregnancy progresses and the size of the fetus increases and its rate of growth increases, the woman’s body needs to produce more of the hormone insulin to maintain sugar levels within acceptable limits, and therefore it can be said that insulin levels in the advanced stages of pregnancy are twice the level Insulin hormone, or maybe three times in the normal state, and therefore in the event that the pregnant body is unable to produce insulin at the level of whey. needed by the body; The blood sugar level rises and then the woman develops gestational diabetes
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