By: Paige Weinkle

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GESTATIONAL DIABETES

• By Paige Weinkle

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What is Gestational Diabetes?

• Gestational Diabetes is a type of diabetes
  that some women get during pregnancy because
  their body is not able to produce enough insulin
  to keep blood sugar with in a range that is safe
  for the women and her fetus. The high blood sugar
  level is usually between the 24th and 28th weeks
  of pregnancy.

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What causes Gestational Diabetes?

• A fetus grows and develops the placenta. It
  produces several important hormones. Some of
  these hormones block the action of insulin,
  requiring the mothers body too produce extra
  insulin. If a women's body cannot produce enough
  extra insulin to counteract her resistance to is,
  she develops Gestational Diabetes.

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How Is it Diagnosed?

• Almost all women are tested for Gestational
  Diabetes between the 24th and 28th week of their
  pregnancy. However, women with a high risk for
  the disease are tested earlier in the pregnancy.
  Women who meet all the criteria for a low risk do
  not have to be tested at all.

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Lets take a quiz!!

• 1. If a women is tested for this disease what
  time in her pregnancy will she be diagnosed?
• Answer She will be diagnosed in the 24th
  threw the 28th weeks of her pregnancy.
• 2. What do women that are pregnant not get enough
  of that they get Gestational Diabetes?
• Answer the women Does not get enough EXTRA
  INSULIN.
• In what part of a women's pregnancy does her
  blood sugar go HIGH?
• Answer Just like answer number 1. In the
  24th threw the 28th weeks of her pregnancy.

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Info

• If you want to get more information on
  Gestational Diabetes you can go to AOL.com and
  then click on AOL keyword. Then type in Diabetes
  and all the information you need will come up.

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THANK YOU!