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  • Hi, I am Jyothi Chabria. I would like to talk about gestational diabetes here which is a

  • very common occurrence that we see in most patients now a days. Gestational diabetes

  • is nothing but a condition wherein a patient is diabetic during pregnancy, but once the

  • patient delivers she is not considered a diabetic anymore. But the precautions that one needs

  • to take in a gestational diabetic case that they follow almost the similar diet as a diabetic

  • patient, but that lasts only till she delivers because once she delivers all the sugar parameters

  • come back to normal. The care that the patient needs to take is almost follow a diet that

  • a diabetic patient should follow as in, we would recommend them to have low fat skimmed

  • milk, because we do not recommend them not to have milk because of the calcium. But they

  • can go in for options like low fat milk or we would also recommend them to have you know,

  • in terms of vegetables they need to avoid all the tubers as in potato, colocasia and

  • beetroot, radish things like that. But we would highlight in fact for them things like

  • drumsticks, beans, all your green leafy vegetables like amaranth, spinach, fenugreek things like

  • that. And we would recommend them to also avoid fruits like banana, mango, sapota, grapes

  • and custard apple. Patient is also advised to not to have fruit juice, reason being because

  • to make a juice you need to have at least 3-4 fruits per se. But in a diabetic patient

  • or a gestational diabetic patient only one fruit is allowed per day. That also depends

  • on the amount of sugar levels that they have.

Hi, I am Jyothi Chabria. I would like to talk about gestational diabetes here which is a

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