Gestational diabetes is not necessarily caused by eating sweets, but eating sweets can aggravate gestational diabetes.
In early pregnancy, glucose needs of pregnant women will increase, when progesterone and estrogen will increase to enhance the absorption and utilization of glucose. In the middle and late stages of pregnancy, the pregnant women’s body leptin, progesterone, tumor necrosis factor and other antagonistic insulin-like substances increase, resulting in a decrease in insulin sensitivity of pregnant women, pregnant women’s insulin secretion can not be increased accordingly may be the emergence of gestational diabetes mellitus.
Gestational diabetes is not necessarily caused by eating sweets, but eating sweets can aggravate gestational diabetes. Gestational diabetes patients should improve their living habits, more exercise, less sedentary, low-salt, low-fat, low-sugar diet, more fruits and vegetables, less high-sugar, high-fat food, if necessary, under the guidance of a physician to use insulin treatment, to avoid affecting the health of the pregnant woman and the fetus.
Gestational diabetes mellitus should consult the endocrinology department and standardize the treatment under the guidance of physicians.