Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Therapy on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20191922
- VernacularTitle: 妊娠糖尿病中西医临床治疗的思考
- Author:
Li-qiang WANG
1
;
Jing-xin ZHOU
1
;
Gui-zhen MIAO
1
;
Li-li WU
2
;
Xiao-nan WANG
1
;
Qiao-qiao LIU
1
;
Can CAO
1
;
Zhao-li CUI
1
;
Qi-ming DU
1
;
Tong JIN
1
;
Shan LU
1
Author Information
1. Affiliated Dongzhimen Hospital of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 101121, China
2. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
- Publication Type:Research Article
- Keywords:
gestational diabetes mellitus;
traditional Chinese medicine;
western medicine;
clinical treatment
- From:
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae
2019;25(23):229-234
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In recent years, as the level of economic life has improved, the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus has increased year by year. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been a serious threat to maternal and newborn health. The pathogenesis of gestational diabetes is not very clear, and may be closely associated with insulin resistance, genetic susceptibility, inflammatory response, metabolic disorders. According to the gestational diabetes diagnostic standard,24-28 weeks pregnant women keep an empty stomach over 8 h, taken 75 g oral glucose directly, and then receive the oral glucose tolerance test. GDM is diagnosed as fasting blood-glucose> 5.1 mmol · L-1,1-hour postprandial blood glucose>10.0 mmol · L-1,and 2-hour postprandial blood glucose>8.5 mmol · L-1. Western medicine treatment is mainly based on diet, exercise, drugs, education, monitoring and insulin therapy according to blood glucose. Meanwhile, GDM is a type of diabetes in traditional Chinese medicine. GDM is prevented and treated with diets and traditional method sports and Chinese herbs. Therefore, integrated Chinese and western medicine therapy can maximize the curative effect, reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus, and effectively improve the adverse outcome and prognosis of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus from mother to child.
