Postpartum blood glucose is higher than prenatal blood glucose may be due to postnatal diet and exercise is unreasonable, may also be gestational diabetes.
1. Unreasonable diet and exercise: Postpartum patients often eat some high-nutrition, high-energy food in order to produce milk, and lack of exercise, resulting in weight gain, causing insulin resistance, which may lead to high blood glucose, part of the patients in a reasonable diet and exercise management, blood glucose can be gradually returned to normal.
2. Gestational diabetes mellitus: Most of the patients with gestational diabetes mellitus can have their blood sugar gradually return to normal in 6 to 12 weeks after delivery. Some patients with gestational diabetes mellitus have poor weight management during pregnancy and postpartum, and weight gain leads to insulin resistance or impaired pancreatic islet function, which may lead to higher blood glucose in the postpartum period.
Those with abnormal blood glucose should go to the hospital and be treated under doctor’s supervision.