Gestational Diabetes : Treatments

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The goals of treatment are to keep blood glucose levels within normal limits during the pregnancy, and to make sure that the fetus is healthy. Your health care provider should closely check both you and your fetus throughout the pregnancy. You als...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 17, 2007
Gestational Diabetes:: Many babies born to women with gestational diabetes are large enough to cause more difficult deliveries, and they may require the use of forceps, suction, or cesarean section. Once the baby is born, it is important to...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Insulin won't work if it's swallowed, so it must be given by injection. Your healthcare team will show you how to give yourself insulin injections.
Source:StayWell
Date:August 14, 2003
Blood glucose monitoring is a measurement of glucose (sugar) in the blood. The test can be done at any time on a portable machine. It can be a self-test for a person with diabetes.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 24, 2007
The only way to be sure your blood sugar stays within a normal range is to check it. You may be asked to check your blood sugar at home one or more times a day.
Source:StayWell
Date:November 21, 2005
Exercise is physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body. Exercise is utilized to improve health, maintain fitness and is important as a means of physical rehabilitation .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Therapeutic exercise is a physical therapy intervention encompassing a broad range of activities designed to restore or improve musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary and/or neurologic function. Purpose Some form of therapeutic exercise is indicated in almost every physical therapy case.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Exercise is physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning the body. Exercise consists of cardiovascular conditioning, strength and resistance training, and flexibility.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Exercise is physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body or to improve performance in a specific task. Exercise is utilized to improve health, maintain fitness, and is important as a means of physical rehabilitation.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Exercise is physical activity that is undertaken in order to improve one ' s health. Physicians, physical therapists, and researchers have found that exercise plays an important role in the maintenance of brain, nerve, and muscle function in the human body.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Exercise is any activity requiring physical exertion done for the sake of health. Activities range from walking and yoga to lifting weights and martial arts .
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The Surgeon General of the United States defines exercise as physical activity that involves planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movements in order to improve or maintain physical fitness. As an element of health, exercise involves both strength training of the muscles and cardiovascular fitness, with stretching activities for flexibility.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Nutrition counseling is an ongoing process in which a health professional, usually a registered dietitian, works with an individual to assess his or her usual dietary intake and identify areas where change is needed. The nutrition counselor provides information, educational materials, support, and follow-up to help the individual make and maintain the needed dietary changes.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The purpose of a nutrition program in a health department is to promote the nutritional health of the residents living under the health department ' s jurisdiction. A public health nutritionist with a master ' s or doctoral degree in nutrition or a related field is trained to direct the program.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Nutrition education is a critical component of most major health promotion and disease prevention programs. Research indicates that behavioral change is directly related to the amount of nutrition education received.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
In the United States, as in most developed countries, a number of services and programs exist to help those who are in need due to age, illness, poverty or adverse circumstances. This is often not the case in less-developed countries, where individuals and communities experience hardships due to a lack of social, health, and welfare services.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
Every year, thousands of individuals are displaced from their homes and homelands because of wars, political conflicts, and natural disasters. The Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS) was established in 1993 to collect data and report on the nutrition, health, and survival status of the most nutritionally vulnerable people in the world, including refugees, internally displaced populations, and those who are forced to migrate.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
The Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) is an organization of nutrition professionals whose aim is to be involved in nutrition education and health promotion. The organization represents professional interests in nutrition education within the United States and worldwide.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
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