By: Alina Mansour

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE

Gestational
DIabetes

WHAT IS
GESTATIONAL
DIABETES
Gestational diabetes is a type of glucose intolerance that a
women devlops during pregnancy

How gestational diabetes Treatments for

can affect your Gestational Diabetes
pregnancy?
You'll be given a blood sugar testing
your baby growing larger than kit so you can monitor the effects of
usual – this may lead to treatment
difficulties during the delivery
Tablets such as metformin or insulin
and increases the likelihood of
injections are suggested to get
needing induced labour or a
caesarean section Doctors recommed eating healthy by
pre-eclampsia – a condition changing your diet and begin regular
that causes high blood exercises
pressure during pregnancy and
can lead to pregnancy
complications if not treated

HOW COMMON IS IT?

Between 3 – 20% of
pregnant women
develop gestational
diabetes, depending Gestational
on their risk diabetes is not
factors.for example considered rare; it is
age. relatively common
during pregnancy.

SYMPTONS FOR GESTATIONAL

DIABETES
increased thirst HOW IS GESTATIONAL
dry mouth DIABETES CAUSED?
tiredness
genital iching/ thrush
When a womens body can not
constantly peeing make enough insulin during their
pregnancy