What to do if your insulin level is high during pregnancy

If pregnant women find that their insulin levels are high during check-ups, they should not be too anxious. At this time, they can adopt some ways to enhance their daily exercise to improve their insulin index, but they must do it within their ability and should not do strenuous exercise in their daily lives. They can only use jogging and some low-intensity exercises to improve the situation, so as not to harm the fetus in the womb.

Strengthen physical exercise

Physical activity can increase tissue sensitivity to insulin, reduce body weight, improve metabolism, reduce insulin resistance, relieve hyperinsulinemia, and reduce cardiovascular complications.

Improve your diet

Whether in my country or in the West, people's dietary structure is mainly high in calories and fat. If calorie intake exceeds consumption, it will cause fat accumulation in the body and lead to obesity. Therefore, the diet should be diversified to maintain nutritional balance and avoid overnutrition.

If the disease needs to be treated with medication, it must be under the guidance of a doctor. Take medication and monitor at the same time to adjust hormone levels to within the healthy index range.

Insensitivity of peripheral tissues to insulin weakens the effect of insulin in muscle and inhibits lipolysis in adipose tissue. Insulin resistance in adipose tissue leads to increased blood free fatty acid and triglyceride concentrations. High triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Low-density lipoprotein can penetrate into the lining of coronary arteries and other arteries, forming atherosclerotic plaques that block blood vessels.

When diabetic patients have dyslipidemia, they will develop heart and cerebrovascular diseases earlier, especially women. Women's estrogen can protect the heart and blood vessels, but diabetes eliminates the protective effect of estrogen. Hyperinsulinemia also damages vascular endothelial cells, causes platelet aggregation, and makes the blood easy to coagulate. Insulin can also activate the sympathetic nervous system of patients with insulin resistance, causing vasospasm and increased resistance, leading to the occurrence of essential hypertension. At the same time, the heart will also be affected, causing abnormal ventricular structure, decreased heart function or even failure.

Patients with insulinoma must be differentiated from other diseases that can cause fasting hypoglycemia. This disease is often misdiagnosed as epilepsy, cerebrovascular accident, hysteria, schizophrenia, orthostatic hypotension, meningitis, encephalitis, brain tumor, diabetic acidosis, hyperosmolar coma, hepatic encephalopathy, hypopituitarism, Addison's disease, hypothyroidism, autoimmune hypoglycemia, drug-induced hypoglycemia, non-insulinoma hypoglycemia, etc.

The glucose tolerance curves of patients with various diseases may be significantly different, and corresponding glucose tolerance tests are required to observe the shape of the curve and provide a reference for the differential diagnosis of hypoglycemia caused by various reasons.