Diabetes During Pregnancy
Any disease that strikes a mother during pregnancy does not bode well for the baby. Similarly, diabetes being can be harmful for the mother and well as the child; timely diagnosis is good for both of them. Since all the known symptoms of diabetes do not show in pregnant women, they do not realize that they could be having it. Hence, thorough examinations in the fifth and sixth motn are advisable to rule out diabetes. Given below are seven proven indications of the dreaded disease that could apply to expectant mothers.
One major indication would be frequent tiredness, which may be safely attributed to pregnancy too, but the tiredness is accompanied by increased cravings for water and other drinks and trouble with seeing things clearly, the situation warrants immediate check up. The tendency to urinate more often is another symptom of diabetes, but could be associated with pregnancy again. Pregnant women are known to get frequent hunger pangs and there could be infections of the skin, urinary bladder and the vagina, though not for all. Hunger pangs are fine but the other infections are a signal enough to warrant immediate testing to rule out diabetes. Normally all these symptoms, collectively known as gestational diabetes, vanish after delivery. If they do not and continue to persist even after child birth, you should not turn a blind eye to them and a doctor should be consulted on a regular basis. Always to remember to keep a tab on your blood pressure, weight gain and health status during pregnancy, by having regular check ups. Any anomaly or persistent irregularity should be brought to the notice of the doctor soon.
Keep all the above things in mind during pregnancy to ensure good health for you as well as the unborn child.
