Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes only happens when a women is pregnant. After a baby is born the women no longer has diabetes, however she must take steps to stay active, eat right and maintain a healthy weight level or she may develope type 2 diabetes later in life.

During the last two months of pregnancy, it is necessary to follow a meal plan to keep her blood sugar in normal ranger or her baby may grow too big, which will cause problems for her and her baby during the birthing process.

How to Avoid the damage that diabetes can do the body

1. Manage blood sugar levels by check the levels as directed by your physician and taking medication as prescribed.
2. Maintain a healthy diet and do not consume to much carbohydrates.
3. Check your blood sugar in the morning 2 hours after meals. This gives you information on how your blood sugar is going up and when. It can tell you the effects of any diabetes medication you are taking.
4. A daily walk of 30 to 45 minutes will help lower your blood sugar level. Exercise is an important key to help maintain an appropriate blood sugar level.

Learning to bring your blood sugar levels back to normal is key to preventing diabetes from causing damage to your body. People can keep diabetes from developing by simply eating healthy meals, and getting daily exercise. There are also tools that can reverse some of the damage that might have already been done.

What Causes Diabetes

First of all you need to have the genes for diabetes, and there has to be something to trigger it. Foir many people who develope diabetes 2 the tirgger is being overwieght and not getting the propper amount of exercise. Stress can be a trigger also. This sometimes happen during pregnancy.

For children with type 1 (juvenile diabetes), a virus may have confused the immune system into identifying the beta cells in the pancreas as parat of the virus, and so the immune system destroyed the beta cells and stopped the production of insulin.