Pregnancy Diabetes Mellitus: How to Treat Pregnancy Diabetes

GDM may recover after delivery, but not all patients return to normal completely. For some women who develop diabetes during pregnancy, levels of insulin-antagonizing hormones drop rapidly after delivery, and blood sugar usually improves significantly in a short period of time, or even returns to normal. This is because special physiological changes during pregnancy are important causes of elevated blood sugar, and this special state is relieved after childbirth, and blood sugar is easily restored to normal. However, some patients may not fully return to normal blood sugar after childbirth, and may still be in a pre-diabetic state or develop type 2 diabetes. This may be related to genetic predisposition, excessive weight gain during pregnancy, poor blood sugar control during pregnancy, etc. If you do not pay attention to lifestyle adjustments after childbirth, such as continuous high sugar, high fat diet, lack of exercise, weight control, etc., you will increase the risk of blood sugar recovery. Close blood sugar monitoring is recommended regardless of whether blood sugar returns to normal after childbirth. For patients whose blood sugar returns to normal, they should not be taken lightly. They should maintain a healthy lifestyle and check their blood sugar regularly, because their risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future is still higher than that of the general population.

For patients whose blood sugar has not recovered, it is necessary to actively cooperate with doctors for treatment and management, including diet adjustment, appropriate exercise and drug treatment when necessary, to control blood sugar and reduce diabetes-related complications. In short, gestational diabetes patients cannot think that everything is fine after delivery. It is necessary to pay attention to postpartum blood sugar monitoring and management, and take corresponding measures according to specific conditions to ensure their health.