Gestational diabetes affects 12 percent of pregnant women in Mexico, and even reaches 30 percent in some locations, specialists warned.
The Jalisco Health Secretariat (SSJ) through the General Hospital of the West (HGO), invited the female population on Tuesday to prevent complications for this disease, which is manifested through the presence of high glucose during pregnancy.
According to the head of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Division of the General Hospital of the West 'Zoquipan' (HGO), Alberto Bañuelos Franco, has increased in recent years, mainly due to the effects of obesity on the population.
"Women have an increasing trend in their body mass and that makes this disease favor, although Latinos are already alone, they have that propensity of having gestational diabetes," he said.
Bañuelos Franco explained that in Jalisco hospitals have trained medical personnel for the surveillance, monitoring and care of the disease, in order to ensure that patients are terminated with their pregnancies in a satisfactory way.
"All diabetics that are insulin -dependent or patients with gestational diabetes that cannot be improved through lifestyles changes, mainly of nutritional aspects and have a body mass index above 30, should be in third level units"
"In Jalisco, there are civil hospitals and the General Hospital of the West, within the population that has no formal right of ISSSTE or IMSS," he said.
Gestational diabetes has a different behavior than the 'three p' that are polyuria, excess urine;Polyphia, excess appetite;And polydipsia, excess thirst, that is, it does not always meet these symptoms, sometimes it is asymptomatic.
"They do not go to the health center to perform the screening test and when they go, they arrive with the dead product. The baby dies due to the increase or low of glucose, lack of circulation in the placenta or alterations of blood pressure, detachment ofThe placenta or because there is amniotic fluid, "Franco Bañuelos warned.
While gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy, the patient can develop it permanently or in the following pregnancies.
For his part, the doctor assigned to the HGO fetal medicine service, César Rodolfo Tawney Serrano, indicated that patients who have a high risk are subject to a diagnostic test that is known as glucose tolerance curve, to diagnose them withEarly way and start with treatment, mainly an adequate diet.
"80 percent of patients are going to be controlled with an adequate diet for gestational age and for their body mass index. 20 percent that do not respond to diet due to genetic or metabolic factors, are subjected to pharmacological treatment throughInsulina, "said Tawney Serrano.
