Patient's question:
When I was pregnant with my first child, all the prenatal check-ups were fine. Now I'm five months pregnant with my second child, but every time I get a detailed blood sugar test, it's high. I feel that my diet is no different from when I was pregnant with my first child, except that I eat more fruit now. I want to ask, what are the causes of gestational diabetes?Doctor's answer:
Hello, it's a pleasure to help you with your question. Gestational diabetes is one of the diseases unique to pregnancy. Under normal circumstances, these patients have normal blood sugar levels before pregnancy, and after giving birth, their blood sugar gradually returns to normal. Therefore, only during pregnancy, when blood sugar levels rise, it is called gestational diabetes. The pathogenesis of this disease is not yet very clear, and it may be related to hereditary factors across generations, individual differences, as well as hormonal levels or immune function in the body.