Contents:
- Medical Video: Female fertility animation
- How can diabetes affect women's fertility?
- So, how to deal with this condition if you want to get pregnant?
Medical Video: Female fertility animation
There are many factors that can cause someone to experience infertility. One condition that can cause infertility for both men and women is diabetes. In fact, for women, this condition will be closely related to how they can become pregnant. So, why can diabetes affect women's fertility? And how do you handle it? Find out all the answers to these questions in this article.
How can diabetes affect women's fertility?
In women, diabetes can affect fertility if blood sugar is not handled properly. Generally women with diabetes experience first menstruation or late menarche compared to other women who do not have diabetes.
Not only that, women with diabetes are prone to premature menopause. The disorder is not only experienced by people with diabetes, but even since the prediabetes stage. At this stage there has been insulin resistance, which is not the operation of the insulin hormone as it should because the receptor is experiencing interference.
The hormone insulin is not only for sugar metabolism, but also affects the hormonal cycle in the gonad glands to produce hormones needed by the reproductive system. One of them is the hormone estrogen, which is also known as the female sex hormone nickname. That is why, interference with the workings of insulin will also have an impact on the hormonal system that makes the reproductive system disrupted.
In conditions of prediabetes and diabetes, the maturation process of the egg can be affected by the disruption of the hormonal ratio so that it becomes infertile.
So, how to deal with this condition if you want to get pregnant?
If you have diabetes and plan to get pregnant, the most important thing to do is that you should consult in depth with your doctor who handles diabetes and the obstetrician. By planning and preparing carefully the opportunity to get a baby is even higher, even if you have diabetes.
Diabetes cannot be cured, but that does not mean that this condition cannot be controlled. Your doctor may not allow you to get pregnant if your blood sugar levels are not controlled. That is why, you have to make sure if your sugar levels are well controlled. This is done to reduce risk and increase the chance to get pregnant safely and produce healthy babies. The way is of course by making lifestyle changes to be healthier.
Lifestyle changes are basically applied in everyday life, not only when you want to control blood sugar levels. So, if you previously had an unhealthy lifestyle, from now on change your lifestyle.
Some simple activities that you can do as an effort to apply a healthy lifestyle to control blood sugar levels, including:
- Routinely check blood sugar
- Maintain weight
- Regular exercise
- Pay attention to food intake that is rich in nutrients and nutrition
- Control meal portions
- Do not smoke
- Avoid stress
Basically, by making diabetes 'good friend', it will also motivate and make it easier for someone to control his condition. So, anything can be done by people with diabetes, as long as it is organized and measurable.
