Patient's question:
Female, 21 years old. I have also been treating this disease and taking medication, but it has not improved. I am very frustrated. I have tried many methods, but nothing has worked. Please ask: How is gestational diabetes caused?Doctor's answer:
Pregnancy diabetes is quite different from the diabetes that occurs in the elderly. Everyone knows that our elderly diabetes is caused by the failure of our pancreatic function, which leads to an absolute lack of insulin. That is, our pancreatic cells cannot secrete enough insulin. However, pregnancy diabetes is a bit different. Pregnancy diabetes is often because the insulin we need during pregnancy is very high, but the amount we secrete is relatively scarce. The pancreatic function is not necessarily already weakened, but due to the imbalance between the amount we need and the amount we secrete, it leads to this pregnancy-related diabetes.