What are the effects of gestational diabetes on the baby? Symptoms of gestational diabetes

With the improvement of living standards nowadays, the diet of pregnant mothers has become more diverse. Many pregnant mothers also like to eat desserts more and more. Diabetes is inevitable during pregnancy, which will cause certain harm to the body of pregnant mothers.

Effects on pregnant women

1. High blood sugar can cause abnormal fetal development or even death, and the miscarriage rate is high.

2. Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy increase.

3. The infection rate is high, such as vulvar and vaginal inflammation, pyelonephritis, asymptomatic bacteriuria, puerperal infection and mastitis.

4. The incidence of polyhydramnios is high.

5. Due to the increased incidence of macrosomia, dystocia, birth canal injury, increased chances of operative delivery, prolonged labor and more prone to postpartum hemorrhage.

6. If you become pregnant again, the recurrence rate of diabetes is high, and there is a high chance that you will develop type 2 diabetes in the long term.

Effects on the fetus

1. High incidence of macrosomia - the fetus is too large

2. Fetal growth restriction - the fetus is too small

3. Prone to miscarriage and premature birth

4. High deformity rate

Three more and one less

The most common symptoms of gestational diabetes are "three mores and one less", namely drinking more, eating more, urinating more, and losing weight. Even if you eat a lot of nutritious food, due to the lack of insulin in the body, the glucose in the food is not fully utilized and is excreted. Fat supplies heat energy, and the rate of protein conversion into glucose is greatly accelerated. As a result, a large amount of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats in the body are consumed, resulting in poor physique and light weight.

Vomiting is sometimes accompanied by vomiting in pregnant women. Different from the vomiting caused by general pregnancy reactions, the vomiting caused by gestational diabetes is mostly severe vomiting, and in severe cases it can also cause electrolyte disorders.

Fatigue If a pregnant woman has diabetes, the glucose in her body cannot be used well, and the decomposition of glucose will also be accelerated, which will eventually lead to insufficient physical energy replenishment, making people easily feel tired and weak.

The infection is caused by the accelerated metabolism of glucose, which leads to a significant increase in the glucose content in the blood and urine, making it easy to get fungal infection, especially vulvovaginal Candida infection, which is manifested by severe itching of the vulva, increased leucorrhea in a tofu-like state, and frequent and painful urination.

Diabetes has a serious impact on pregnancy. Diabetes combined with pregnancy, with varying degrees of severity, may cause reduced glucose tolerance, which not only endangers the health of the mother, but also has a great impact on the baby, and is considered a high-risk pregnancy.

If a woman with diabetes plans to get pregnant, it is best to consult a doctor before pregnancy, take contraceptive measures for 3 months, strictly control metabolic disorders, and consider pregnancy only after her blood sugar level remains normal or close to normal.