If a pregnant woman with diabetes is hungry in the middle of the night, she should first monitor her blood glucose to see if she is hypoglycemic. When her blood glucose is less than 3.9 mmol/L, she should take foods with high sugar content by mouth, such as sugar water and sugar-containing cookies, and have her blood glucose retested after half an hour. When the blood sugar is greater than 3.9 mmol per liter, you can eat foods with less sugar, like tomatoes, cucumbers, and a small amount of sugar-free soda crackers.
Diabetic pregnant women who are hungry at night should first find the cause of hunger, whether hypoglycemia occurs, if hypoglycemia occurs, whether it is related to insulin dose more, if there is hypoglycemia occurs need to take oral fast-boosting food, emergency treatment. After the exclusion of hypoglycemia can be a moderate amount of additional meals, not too much, to avoid causing blood sugar fluctuations.
Dietary principles for diabetic patients is to control the higher sugar content of food, while controlling the total calories of each meal, for diabetic pregnant women, is even more so. It is recommended that pregnant women who are hungry in the evening and need to add meals can be moderate consumption of cucumbers, tomatoes, sugar-free soda cookies, these low sugar content as well as low-calorie food, to avoid pregnant women in a long time in the fasting state affecting the development of the fetus.
Diabetic pregnant women should be more careful to control blood sugar to avoid affecting fetal development. Pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus who are always hungry at night should go to the hospital to investigate the cause of their hunger and receive treatment under the guidance of a specialist. More dietary knowledge can consult a nutritionist, under the guidance of the doctor’s scientific and rational consumption.