I’m 26 weeks now and I have the glucose test coming up in a week or so. I couldn’t help eating a bag of sour gummy worms. I don’t really eat to much sugar, but I drink a lot of oj, and grape juice. What causes gestational diabetes?
Answer
If you have the predisposition for gestational diabetes, your diet will absolutely affect whether you get it. If you don’t have that predisposition, you could eat ice cream all day and it wouldn’t “cause” it. But you don’t know if you are likely to get it unless you had it in an earlier pregnancy, or it runs in your family. So until you’re tested, it’s a good idea to avoid big loads of sugar just in case you do have glucose intolerance.
OJ and grape juice are two of the most hard-hitting fast sugars that you can ingest. That’s what they prescribe diabetics whose blood sugars are falling into coma level because it can raise them so quickly. If you have reason to think you might end up with gestational diabetes then you’d want to cut those out of your diet, but unless you have reason to think that, I would just keep the treats and sweets to an occasional thing and not all the time.
I’m 26 weeks now and I have the glucose test coming up in a week or so. I couldn’t help eating a bag of sour gummy worms. I don’t really eat to much sugar, but I drink a lot of oj, and grape juice. What causes gestational diabetes?
During pregnancy, an organ called the placenta develops in the uterus. The placenta connects the mother and baby and makes sure the baby has enough food and water. It also makes several hormones. Some of these hormones make it hard for insulin to do its job—controlling blood sugar—so the mother’s body has to make more insulin to work well. Gestational diabetes develops when the organ that makes insulin, the pancreas, cannot make enough insulin to keep blood sugar levels within a safe range.
i read to prevent gestational diabetes is to avoid sweets such as candy, cookies, ice cream and cakes as much as possible. but of course a treat every now and thne wont do harm