Pregnant women with high fasting blood sugar and low blood sugar after meals may be caused by nighttime hypoglycemia and insulin resistance.
1. Nocturnal hypoglycemia: pregnant women with high fasting blood glucose, postprandial blood glucose is not high may be due to the Sumuje effect, due to nighttime hypoglycemia, rebound hyperglycemia in the morning, resulting in the phenomenon of high fasting blood glucose, this situation needs to be reduced according to the circumstances of the pregnant women at night insulin dose. If the amount of food is insufficient due to the high consumption of pregnant women, the evening can be appropriate to add meals.
2. Insulin resistance: after pregnancy, the reserve function of pancreatic islet cells is not enough to balance the placental hormones can cause insulin resistance, insulin resistance is a decrease in the sensitivity of tissue cells to insulin, insulin resistance can lead to high fasting glucose, gestational diabetes mellitus, high fasting glucose phenomenon, need to be under the guidance of the doctor’s diet, exercise management and medication when necessary.
Pregnant women with high fasting blood glucose, postprandial blood glucose is not high should go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor treatment.