Diabetes mellitus
Pregnancy in women with diabetes
You have diabetes and you want a child. Is it dangerous for you or the baby? How to avoid complications? Before you even conceive the child, please talk with your doctor. It is important to plan this event with him.
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The pregnancy of the diabetic woman is considered a risk pregnancy. However, it can take place without any problem, provided that glycemic control is as perfect as possible at the time of conception and during pregnancy. This will require careful monitoring of blood glucose, and regular medical monitoring.
Pregnancy aggravates diabetes
Pregnancy in women diabétiquePendant pregnancy, the mother’s body undergoes profound changes. The placenta secretes a particular hormone, placental lactogen (HLP), which will increase insulin resistance of the organism. This hormone and produced from the fifth week, and much more important for the 9 months.
First aid for diabetes
The first treatment for diabetes in the following steps:
Initial actions:
- Is there a history of disease a person to determine the type of disease is high in sugar or low, indicating the type of drugs and during the last dose is addressed.
- Deadline last meal and its contents, and change eating habits?
- Is the patient experiencing new infected – My enemy – subjected to surgery or psychological pressure?
- Are there any symptoms such as: increased thirst – frequent urination – nausea or vomiting?
Triglycerides
Name and Type of Test
Triglycerides are fats, or more lipids, the body needs for the formation of structures essential for cells and therefore travel through the bloodstream. Considered a great reservoir of energy for our body. As with cholesterol, the liver is the main factory of triglycerides in our body. It is not often isolated elevation of triglycerides without alteration of other lipids such as cholesterol, but there are familial diseases and dietary changes that can condition an increase in their normal numbers will cause hypertriglyceridemia, with the consequent emergence of pathologies associated with its increase in blood.
Foot care in diabetics
In all the long-term complications that diabetes can cause, the effect on blood vessels (arteries) and peripheral nerves are the most common.
Involvement of the arteries causes the blood supply to certain organs evil arrives and extremities, causing undesirable effects, such as injuries to occur more easily, and delayed or poor healing of the same, if complicated by infection (also more common in diabetes), can reach the loss of fingers, the foot, and even the limb.
The nerve involvement results in decreased sensitivity, which in turn favors the occurrence of injuries with greater ease, not having the defense mechanism of pain, which will retire the end of the injurious element (eg. A source near heat).
They can also produce pain syndromes.