If the patient is diabetes mellitus combined with pregnancy, the postpartum period generally has no effect on the recovery of diabetes mellitus; if the patient is gestational diabetes mellitus, most of the postpartum period can be recovered in about 2-3 months, but some of the patients may be transformed into diabetes mellitus, which requires lifelong treatment.
1. Gestational diabetes: Gestational diabetes is the result of changes in the body’s hormones and cytokines after pregnancy, as well as changes in sugar and lipid metabolism. These changes will lead to increased insulin resistance in pregnant women, resulting in a continuous rise in blood glucose levels. Most of the abnormalities in glucose metabolism in gestational diabetes can return to normal after delivery, which usually takes about 2-3 months.
2. Diabetes combined with pregnancy: that is, diabetic patients with pregnancy, this situation belongs to the diabetic patients, even if the termination of pregnancy, because itself suffers from diabetes, so generally will not be automatically relieved, you need to continue to actively control blood glucose, such as oral metformin or insulin injections and so on.
In addition, whether it is gestational diabetes, or diabetes combined with pregnancy, for the body has a certain degree of harm, so you need to actively accept the treatment, need to go to the hospital under the guidance of a specialist systematic diagnosis and treatment.