‘Gestational Diabetes’

The Goals Of Diabetes Treatment

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

insulin therapyThe goals of treatment are to maintain sugar levels (glucose) within the normal range during pregnancy and ensure that the fetus is healthy.

The physician must carefully examine both you and the fetus throughout pregnancy. Fetal monitoring to check the size and health of the fetus often includes ultrasound and stress testing.

* A nonstress test is a simple and painless for you and your baby. It involves placing a machine that hears and displays the baby’s heartbeat (electronic fetal monitor) on the abdomen. When the baby moves, its heart rate normally increases 15-20 beats above its regular rate.

* The doctor can see the pattern of your baby’s heartbeat compared to its movements and find out if the baby is fine. The doctor will look for increases in the baby’s normal heart rate that occur within a certain period of time. DIET AND EXERCISE The management of the diet can provide the calories and nutrients you need for your pregnancy, controlling blood sugar (glucose) levels and avoid the need to take medications. (more…)

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Aspects of Diabetes Mellitus

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Our diabetes care takes into account all aspects of diabetes mellitus, including diabetes-specific follow-up examinations and screening. The practice is diabetologic Schwerpunktpraxis or Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, insulin pump for treatment and for the treatment of pregnant women with diabetes. Of course, we also train and treat patients who do not have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, but one of the rarer forms of diabetes, eg after inflammation or surgery of the pancreas or with cortisone treatment.

In particular, we offer in practice

  • Individual counseling in diabetes and other diet-related diseases
  • Training in type 2 and type 1 diabetes
  • Training for hypertension
  • Resetting to drugs and / or insulin
  • Acute treatment of metabolic disorders, including recruitment to insulin in newly detected insulin-dependent diabetes

Patients in the statutory health insurance can use the practice of the “disease management programs (DMP) for type 1 and type 2 diabetes to participate (eg curaplan AOK, TK KK-plus technicians, etc.).

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Risk of Gestational Diabetes

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Risk Factors. You may be at greater risk for gestational diabetes if:

  • Are older than age 30
  • Has over weight or has increased much weight during pregnancy
  • Has one or more relatives with diabetes
  • Belongs to an ethnic group is more likely to develop diabetes, including Hispanics, American Indians, Asians or African Americans
  • Had gestational diabetes during their last pregnancy
  • She gave birth in her last pregnancy to a baby weighing more than 9 1 / 2 pounds or had a stillbirth

Remember that not all women who develop gestational diabetes have these risk factors. In fact, many women with gestational diabetes have no risk factor.

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Gestational Diabetes

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010


Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Of every 100 pregnant women, about 4 of them develop gestational diabetes. As with other types of diabetes, gestational diabetes is a condition in which the body has difficulty in managing blood glucose (sugar) in the blood. Glucose is the main source of energy in the body. Diabetes increases the levels of blood sugar. This may create a serious health problem for you and your baby.

If gestational diabetes is not treated, the baby is at higher risk for:

  • Born too big
  • Birth defects
  • Stillborn
  • Complications at birth

The large babies may be injured during vaginal birth, reason for that is often required to undergo both a cesarean mother. Babies of mothers with gestational diabetes may have difficulty breathing, low blood sugar and jaundice during the first weeks after birth. Fortunately, gestational diabetes can be treated and controlled to protect the health of the mother and baby.

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Regulation of Glucose

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

In people who are not diabetic:

  • the fasting and before meals is between 0.70 and 0.90 g / l
  • blood sugar after meals is below 1.50 g / l.

This regulation of blood glucose is the result of insulin action on all body cells and the liver and muscles that have a particular role. Having become acquainted with each actor, we will consider the role of each.

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Diabetes and cardiovascular risk

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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Diabetes and cardiovascular risk
Diabetes mellitus is a disease that occurs when the pancreas can not produce enough insulin or when it fails to act in the body because the cells do not respond to his encouragement.

People with the disorder are more likely to suffer a critical illness cardiovascular. It is to prevent diabetes and to keep the cardiovascular risk factor.

Types of diabetes

There are two main types of diabetes:

Diabetes mellitus type 1
Diabetes mellitus type 1 is often diagnosed before age 35, but can occur at any age. The cells in the pancreas that make insulin are destroyed and no longer generate it. Usually you have a sudden onset.

Diabetes mellitus type 2
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is usually diagnosed in middle age of life (above 40 years), although there are rare cases in young people. Occurs essentially by a progressive resistance of the cells (especially the liver and muscles) to the action of insulin produced.

There are also two types of short-term diabetes:

Gestational Diabetes
It is diagnosed during pregnancy and may disappear after delivery.

Diabetes induced
For drugs (eg corticosteroids) or rare genetic diseases (chronic pancreatitis, etc.)..

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