discussion response Discussion - Week 5 Gestational Diabetes Diabetes is a result of the body's failure to regulate sugar levels in the blood. Many factors cause sugar deregulation, which gives rise to the different types of diabetes. Insulin hormone is necessary for body cells to take up and utilize sugar available in the blood. If the body fails to produce adequate amounts of the hormone, then diabetes type 1 results. Interestingly, type 2 diabetes patients initially have adequate amounts of insulin, but the receptors for it cannot recognize the hormone. Thus, it does not function properly (American Diabetes Association, 2018). Type 1 diabetes and juvenile diabetes were used interchangeably to refer to the same condition in the past years. Still, the latter cause resulted from the body's defense mechanism being activated by a non-native thing to self-destruct the pancreatic cells that produce insulin. Research in the disease has shown that some women develop diabetes during pregnancy, which was not present before the gravidity, and it is termed gestational diabetes. Maternal diabetes causes complications in the embryo/fetus that start in the uterus, are present immediately after birth and could last a lifetime. Women with type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes diagnosed before or during the first trimester of pregnancy are at the greatest risk for congenital fetal anomalies and spontaneous abortions. During pregnancy, many health issues become very pronounce while others appear for the first time. Diabetes is considered gestational if it occurs during the second trimester around twenty-four weeks, and the patient should have no prior history of diabetes. In most patients, the disease may disappear soon after delivery. Still, in some, it may persist, which makes it very important to be cautious of the drugs being given and the child's well-being in consideration. Insulin is preferred for managing gestational diabetes (Mustafa et al., 2021). Depending on the drug producer, it is given subcutaneously with needles that have been calibrated using insulin values. The amount may also vary from one producer to another and the size of the needle (McIntyre et al., 2019). the amount given, it is advised that 0.8/kg be given in a day normally e second trimester and increased by a margin of 0.1 or 0.2 /kg in the last trimester. The woman's diet should be altered to contain fruits and fibers with large amounts of vegetables. These changes aim to reduce the amount of sugar consumed in one meal and provide other necessary nutrients for the body to prevent other health problems from developing. Some of the disorder's immediate effects include macrosomia, inability to deliver the anterior shoulder of the baby during birth that results in birth trauma, and acute low blood sugar levels immediately after birth. The mother stands some long-term effects like developing diabetes post-pregnancy, other kidney health issues, and research have a reason to believe that the risk for cancer also increases.

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Academic Level	Masters
Subject Area	Nursing
Paper Type	Discussion Response
Number of Pages	1 Page(s)/275 words
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Format	APA
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