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How to Manage your Gestational Diabetes with CareSens N

Unless at high risk of diabetes, most pregnant women go through a routine glucose screening test between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. Since gestational diabetes usually show no noticeable signs or symptoms, you would not know what gestational diabetes is or why it happens.

You can control your diabetes! (T2D)

Unlike type 1 diabetes, you can manage type 2 diabetes through changes in your lifestyle in medication, weight loss, healthy diet, physical activity. Although you cannot cure diabetes, you can better manage your blood glucose levels with medication, a healthier diet, and physical activity.

CAUSES and SYMPTOMS of type 2 diabetes

While type 2 diabetes is greatly affected by obesity, it is not the sole underlying cause of diabetes. Causes and risk factors for type 2 diabetes include genetics, obesity, metabolic syndrome, excess glucose from your liver, prediabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, and gestational diabetes.

Are you checking your blood glucose levels?

The most effective way to manage your blood glucose levels would be to use a blood glucose monitoring meter. Using a blood glucose meter can be useful in comparing your blood glucose levels before and after food intake/physical activity.

Do you KNOW your diabetes?

According to CDC, more than 34 million Americans have diabetes (about 1 in 10), and approximately 90-95% of them have type 2 diabetes. Despite its prevalence, type 2 diabetes can go unnoticed for a long time until its symptoms develop over the years (CDC, 2019).