What to do if you have high blood sugar while breastfeeding

If a woman has high blood sugar during breastfeeding, without affecting the infant’s breastfeeding, she can regulate her blood sugar through diet and exercise, and medication if necessary, in the following ways: 1. Diet: control the calories eaten throughout the day, calculate the calories eaten per day according to standard weight, which is height minus 105, and supplement the calories by 30-35 calories per kilogram of body weight, and control the daily Eating carbohydrates, fat, protein, fruit, of which carbohydrates accounted for 50-55% of the day’s calories, the remaining 20% for lipids, 25% for protein substances. In addition, the daily diet as little as possible, the staple food can eat 1 meal of grains and cereals, including the consumption of millet, corn, buckwheat, oats, etc., less refined rice, refined noodles, because refined rice, refined noodles in the high sugar content, less dietary fiber, while grains, coarse grains rich in dietary fiber, a strong sense of satiety, a low glycemic index, is conducive to breastfeeding women to control the blood glucose; 2, exercise: if the control of the post-dietary, blood glucose can not reach the standard, to increase some exercise, in order to control the blood glucose, the blood glucose is not enough. If the blood sugar still can’t reach the standard after diet and exercise control, you should increase certain exercise, do some light exercise under the guidance of the doctor, but the amount of exercise can’t be too big, so as not to affect the breastfeeding; 3, medication: after diet and exercise control, the blood sugar still can’t reach the standard, and then you need to use insulin for control. Oral hypoglycemic drugs cannot be used for elevated blood glucose during breastfeeding, because oral hypoglycemic drugs may affect the baby through breast milk and cause discomfort to the baby.