Patient's question:
Before I got pregnant, I particularly disliked drinking winter melon soup. When I had nothing to do, I hated cooking a pot of winter melon soup to drink. It has relatively high nutritional value. However, when I recently got pregnant and went to the hospital for a health check-up, I found out that I had gestational diabetes. Now I dare not drink winter melon soup anymore. I want to know if winter melon soup can be used for gestational diabetes.Doctor's answer:
Diabetes is a chronic disease primarily caused by hyperglycemia resulting from pancreatic dysfunction. Currently, it cannot be cured. The methods you mentioned do not have a special effect on diabetes. Based on your situation, if you are treating diabetes, conditional insulin therapy is very effective.Gestational diabetes is related to many factors, such as hereditary factors across generations, exercise, and diet. Gestational diabetes does not have a direct relationship with sugar consumption but is associated with an energy supply exceeding demand. Consuming too much, whether it's staple foods, fruits, or snacks, may lead to an energy surplus. Generally, gestational diabetes is not recommended to consume candies, dried fruits, sweet drinks, biscuits, cakes, ice cream, etc., which provide sucrose, glucose, maltose, and other sugars.