The most obvious symptoms of high blood sugar in pregnant women

Many pregnant mothers should know that there are some common symptoms of high blood sugar in pregnant women. Even a little high blood sugar in pregnant women is harmful, so it is even more important to understand the symptoms of high blood sugar in advance and seek treatment in time if discovered. Worried about high blood sugar? Don’t worry, let’s take a look at the symptoms of high blood sugar in pregnant women!

1. Polyuria: This refers not only to an increase in the frequency of urination, but also a continuous increase in urination, which may occur more than 20 times in 24 hours, with urination reaching 2-3 liters or even as much as 10 liters. The urine is foamy, white and sticky. Frequent urination is caused by an increase in blood sugar levels, which exceeds the renal glucose threshold (8.9-10mmol/l). The amount of sugar excreted into the urine increases, thus increasing the frequency and amount of urination.

2. Polydipsia: Polyuria reduces the body's water content, causing the dry mouth nerve center in the brain to become excited and cause the person to want to drink. It should be emphasized that the diagnostic criteria for diabetes are significantly lower than the renal glucose threshold, so diabetes may be diagnosed before polyuria occurs. On the other hand, the elderly have renal artery sclerosis, which leads to an increase in the renal glucose threshold, so the blood sugar level is very high, but the urine has low sugar and is not prone to frequent urination. Secondly, the sensitivity of the elderly's nerve center is weakened. Although the body loses a lot of water, the nerve center has no feeling of dry mouth and they don't want to drink. This is the reason why diabetic non-ketotic hyperosmolar coma is common and has a high mortality rate among the elderly.

3. Overeating: Because blood sugar cannot enter the body cells and cannot be used by the body cells, it stimulates the hunger center in the brain to become excited and cause overeating, and there is no feeling of hunger after eating, resulting in a significant increase in meal frequency and meal volume. It should be noted that in the early stages of type 2 diabetes, due to insulin resistance, blood sugar levels increase rapidly, resulting in a significant feeling of hunger before meals and even hypoglycemia, which is often the first symptom of type 2 diabetes.

4. Weight loss: Reduced glucose utilization in the body, increased fat burning, insufficient protein production, accelerated decomposition, etc., all lead to weight loss. If there are symptoms of polyuria, the loss of body water will aggravate the symptoms of weight loss. Similarly, the longer the history of the disease, the higher the blood sugar level; the more serious the condition, the more obvious the weight loss will be.

5. Physical fatigue: Blood sugar cannot enter the body cells, causing the cells to lack energy. It is reported that 2/3 of diabetic patients have symptoms of fatigue, which even exceeds the number of obese people.

6. Susceptible to infection: Diabetes affects the immune function, resulting in reduced resistance, making it easy to develop skin scabies, various inflammations of the respiratory and urinary tract systems, and difficult to treat.