Carbohydrate counting when you have gestational diabetes
Introduction
Carbohydrate counting is the best way to help control your blood sugar when you have gestational diabetes.
Key points
- Carbohydrate counting helps you determine the amount of sugar and starch (carbohydrate) in the foods you eat. This is important because carbohydrate affects your blood sugar more than fats or proteins do.
- Carbohydrate counting involves learning how to spread out the amount of carbohydrate you eat throughout the day to help prevent high blood sugar after eating.
- You should test your blood sugar after meals to see what effect different carbohydrate foods have on your blood sugar level.
What is carbohydrate counting?
Why do I need to count carbohydrate?
How to count carbohydrate
Where to go from here
More information about the different types of diabetes can be found in these topics:
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes: Recently Diagnosed
- Type 2 Diabetes: Living With the Disease
- Type 2 Diabetes: Living With Complications
- Gestational Diabetes
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| Author: | Alison Allen Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS | Last Updated: February 12, 2008 |
| Medical Review: | Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine Lois Jovanovic, MD - Endocrinology Andrew Swan, MD, CCFP, FCFP - Family Medicine | |
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