Guangzhou Daily (Reporter Ren Shanshan, Correspondent Bai Tianhuang Xianjun) During the Spring Festival, sugar mommies with gestational diabetes should remember to \”shut up and open their legs\” during the holidays and insist on controlling sugar. Li Yingtao, chief physician of the Obstetrics Department of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, pointed out that sugar control is not just a matter for sugar mothers. There are nine things a husband should do.
1. Greetings and concerns. Sugar mommies have to prick their fingers to measure trace blood sugar every day. At this time, husbands can send a simple greeting to sugar mummies when they test their blood sugar before and after meals, which is the best \”good medicine\” for sugar mummies.
2. Help supervise and “drill” when necessary. Husbands can learn the health knowledge of self-testing blood sugar, or prick their fingers to experience the pain of measuring blood sugar, and remind themselves to help sugar mommies do homework to test blood sugar when they are free. In addition, before measuring blood sugar, you can also prepare the following five items for sugar mothers: blood glucose meter, disposable blood collection needle, disposable blood sugar test paper, 75% medical alcohol, and medical sterilized cotton swabs.
3. Cut the sugar mummy’s nails. The husband can trim the sugar mommy’s nails once a week to remind the sugar mommy to pay attention to hand hygiene before testing her blood sugar. Before testing your blood sugar, you need to wash your hands with soap or liquid soap and running water to remove dirt, debris, and some pathogenic bacteria from your skin. It is best to wash your hands for no less than 20 seconds, which is about the same as singing happy birthday twice. Don’t forget to disinfect the finger collection site with 75% medical alcohol.
4. Cook for your wife. Husbands can also learn some nutrition knowledge, understand the importance of weight management during pregnancy, assess the BMI and standard weight of themselves and the sugar mother, calculate the daily calorie intake of the sugar mother and themselves, and cook a meal with the sugar mother that is nutritionally sound standards, understand what a scientific diet is. Pay attention to collecting \”food ingredients\”, \”glycemic index\”, gestational diabetes recipes and other relevant information together with the sugar mother to facilitate daily diet control.
5. Work out with my wife. Walking, swimming, yoga, aerobics, stair climbing, upper body exercises, etc. are all commonly recommended forms of exercise during pregnancy, among which walking is one of the most popular forms of exercise. Choose a place with lush flowers and plants and few people and cars. The best time for winter sports is from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Remind sugar mommies to check their blood sugar before exercising. If the blood sugar before exercise is lower than 3.9mmol/L, eat something before exercise to avoid hypoglycemia; if the blood sugar before exercise is higher than 11.1mmol/L, exercise should be postponed to avoid stress-induced increases in blood sugar. First do 5-10 minutes of warm-up exercise; 20-30 minutes of formal exercise; then 10-20 minutes of recovery and relaxation exercise; check blood sugar after exercise. If your blood sugar is lower than 4.5mmol/L after exercise, you should eat sugary foods immediately to prevent hypoglycemia.
6. Create a pregnancy “checklist.” Together with the sugar mommy, record the sugar mommy\’s blood sugar, uterine height, and abdominal circumference, and pay special attention to the fetal movement count record after 28 weeks, so as to experience the trinity communication between the expectant father, the expectant mother, and the baby early, and also build a mutual relationship for the sugar mommies.A helpful bridge of reminders and communication.
7. Make a “Sugar Mommy Diary” with your sugar mommy. Record the food type and weight of each meal, each blood sugar test result, changes in condition, medication status, etc. In addition, paste the hospital test sheets in chronological order on the book and show it to the doctor every time. It can be used as a reference for doctors to adjust treatment plans.
8. Get the elders together. A sugar mummy’s natal and in-law families play an important role in the sugar mummy’s sugar control process, but the older generation often has insufficient understanding of gestational diabetes. At this time, the husband can take time to read a passage with the elderly at home to help the elderly increase their knowledge.
9. During the Spring Festival reunion, dining out takes too long and has too many varieties. Husbands should remind sugar mommies to control their sugar levels. Strictly speaking, blood sugar should be calculated from the first bite taken 2 hours after a meal. However, the situation of socializing outside is quite special: the order of meals is often dishes first and then the staple food, and the meal time is relatively prolonged, making it difficult to control the blood glucose monitoring time 2 hours after the meal. In this case, sugar mommies can use random blood sugar to replace the 2-hour post-meal blood sugar. Random blood glucose refers to non-fasting blood glucose measured at any time of the day, regardless of meal times. If random blood sugar is