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.