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How should maternal hypoglycemia be cared for?

How should maternal hypoglycemia be cared for? During pregnancy, the physiological and psychological changes of pregnant women are inevitable. Blood glucose fluctuation can hardly be avoided. However, even if the pregnancy is safely passed, the blood glucose monitoring can not be relaxed.

Now, more and more patients with gestational diabetes mellitus, whether pregnant before pregnancy diabetes, or pregnant women in the process of diabetes, many people will have such confusion: what changes will happen after the blood glucose? Experts believe that the physiological and psychological changes of pregnant women during pregnancy can hardly be avoided. However, even if the pregnancy is safely passed, the monitoring of blood sugar can not be relaxed.

Because diabetic women in childbirth, if the blood sugar is not up to standard, easy to complicating neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, and even lead to the death of the fetus. Even if the child can be born safely, if the blood glucose control is not good, coupled with the patient's massive bleeding and physical weakness, it is difficult to escape the fate of complications such as infection. Therefore, the postpartum sugar control work of sugar mother is also very important. During this period, sugar mothers had better control their blood glucose within the range of fasting blood glucose of 3.4 ~ 5.0mmol/l and pre meal blood glucose of 3.4 ~ 5.8mmol/l. The blood glucose in one hour after meal should not exceed 7.8mmol/l and that in two hours after meal should be less than 6.7mmol/l.

Postpartum, blood glucose monitoring should be carried out on time. After delivery, due to the discharge of placenta, the antagonistic hormone of insulin decreases rapidly. In addition, the patient loses a lot of blood during delivery and cannot be supplemented in time after delivery, which increases the risk of hypoglycemia. At this time, hypoglycemia will cause the patient to lose consciousness quickly. Therefore, within 24 ~ 48 hours after delivery, the dosage of insulin should be greatly reduced, or even not used temporarily, but any adjustment of dosage should be guided by a professional doctor.

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