Convention in Normandy on diabetes in pregnant women
Diabetes is a pathology that can affect any individual: the elderly, children, young men, etc. Pregnant women can also be affected.
In Normandy, the ROD (Réseau Obésité Diabète), the Henri Guillard clinic and the Memorial Hospital of Saint-Lô decided to sign an agreement at the beginning of July to try to help pregnant women suffering from gestational diabetes, also called diabetes . gestational (1) .
What is gestational diabetes?
Gestational diabetes is, like diabetes, a disorder of blood sugar regulation resulting in excess sugar in the blood. Two different populations are grouped together in gestational diabetes:
- Women who develop diabetes during pregnancy, which usually goes away after pregnancy.
- And women already suffering from diabetes, not knowing it, and which will reveal itself at the time of pregnancy (2) .
The agreement
Mathieu LAGRAVEREND, dietitian, specifies in the newspaper Ouest-France: “ We have observed that it is possible to improve the offer of therapeutic education for pregnant women suffering from diabetes ”. He adds that the care for these women did not exist.
The agreement therefore aims to set up a light therapeutic program to help these people . Information and advice will be provided in this regard to patients. The hospital staff will also set up sports and nutritional programs adapted to each patient.
It is first of all the obstetrician-gynecologists of the clinic who will be able to prescribe this therapeutic course. The midwives will then take over to offer a therapeutic diagnosis.
If the program is insufficient, the clinic specifies that the relay will then be rung to the diabetologists of the establishment, who can then offer, if necessary, treatment with insulin.
Remember that gestational diabetes, if left untreated, can have serious consequences, including fetal and maternal complications. The percentage of women affected by gestational diabetes is increasing around the world.
ALFEDIAM, a French-speaking association for the study of diabetes and metabolic diseases, recommends screening for diabetes in all pregnant women, from 28 weeks of pregnancy, by carrying out a blood sugar level (sugar level in the blood). Particular attention will also be paid to women with diabetic family heredity and overweight women. Indeed, the latter is a risk factor that can promote gestational diabetes (3) .
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