Concerned about the sexual health of women with diabetes
Posted on October 4, 2009
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Of one adult for every indispensable part of life, but also an important part of healthy living. Married men and women regardless of diabetes sufferers will experience sexual problems, sex life process does not increase the diabetes. As long as patients have attention to the relevant issues, strict control of blood glucose, blood lipids, blood pressure, etc. can be a normal sex life is entirely possible and normal, like love, marriage, having children. However, when severe diabetic complications, then the health of the spouse to be understanding of the patient, not forced to act, or adverse effects may occur.
1, many women have sexual dysfunction diabetes sufferers.
Almost all married women are the mistake of “sex life disharmony”, the female patient’s problem does not seem more than non-diabetic women. However, if the blood glucose level is not well controlled, women sufferers often vaginal dryness, and anaerobic infection. Although many people believe that problems difficult to speak about, but in order to improve your quality of life, with problems or should talk to your doctor in order to get help. Female patient’s sexual dysfunction is mainly reflected in the vaginal dryness, painful intercourse, decreased libido and lack of orgasm and so on.
2, vaginal dryness is a common complication of diabetic women.
Are mostly due to vaginal dryness caused by low levels of sex hormones, and the resulting pain during intercourse. Once the symptoms of vaginal dryness, first, a doctor should be reported by doctors to determine hormone levels is low, consider whether to adopt hormone replacement therapy. Hormone replacement therapy can increase vaginal lubrication, its oral drug delivery methods can be used, injections in the form of injections or vaginal ointment. Need to be reminded that: use of hormone replacement therapy must seek a doctor’s consent, not given a free hand. If you have already spent menopause, or other reasons not to use hormone replacement therapy, you can use vaginal lubricants. Subject to remember: In the use of vaginal lubricants must consent before a doctor’s consent.
3, prevention of female sexual dysfunction, first blood glucose control compliance.
If the diabetic women, poor blood sugar control is easy to cause vaginal inflammation, and can lead to temporary, but often can be corrected to avoid sex, sexual intercourse or vaginal pain, spasm and so on. With vaginal inflammation of the sufferers should be rational use of drugs, a thorough treatment of vaginitis: the emergence of female patients have atrophic vaginitis may be appropriate to oral estrogen (for example, nylestriol tablet, etc.), can also be used vaginal lubricants. When the blood glucose control compliance, vaginitis, after cure, the symptoms will disappear.
4, note that sexual activity caused by low blood sugar.
Arousal, a prelude to sexual intercourse. Intercourse and orgasm are the need to consume energy activities. According to the duration of sexual activity, sexual response and orgasm of duplication, some need to consume 600 kcal of energy. If the start of sexual activity and normal or low blood sugar, and the stomach does not maintain a sufficient additional energy, then the tension of sexual activity may cause low blood sugar. Low blood sugar is not only harmful to our health and possibly life-threatening. If a woman after sexual activity did not check blood sugar and added sugar stocks immediately fell asleep, and that there may be life-threatening. Reduction of sexual activity lead to low blood sugar reaction is the best way to replenish their energy before going to bed to eat a little food, or after sexual activity decreased blood sugar to take the necessary measures. Sexual activity after eating some fruit and bread may be the best solution.
5, to get married, give birth a few tips.
(1) selecting a spouse married to: diabetes, although not one hundred percent of genetic diseases, but either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, there are some genetic factors exist. Therefore, the best choice for the other family of people without diabetes marriage in order to reduce the risk of the next generation of diabetes.
(2) have children: women with diabetes sufferers control blood sugar stable is to ensure that pregnancy and childbirth safe premise, if pregnant, have to go to the hospital the doctor to do a comprehensive and detailed pre-pregnancy and prenatal care to understand the severity of the current diabetes, in order to determine whether time to pregnancy and childbirth, and ways. In addition, the late Early Health better, because as the extension of course, complications will gradually increase, as well as increased risk of pregnancy and childbirth.
(3) gestational diabetes, if blood sugar is too high will cause the fetus to produce too much insulin, so glucose stored in the fetus caused by macrosomia in the future endless troubles.
(4) To ensure the safety of mother and child, pregnancy and lactation can not use oral hypoglycemic agents. After adjusting for diet and appropriate activities are beyond the control of high blood sugar, should be actively use insulin, blood glucose control to ensure compliance. At the same time, blood glucose monitoring should be strengthened in order to avoid low blood sugar, low blood sugar can cause stillbirth.
(5) during pregnancy and lactation to go to formal endocrine or maternity clinic in order to ensure the smooth progress during pregnancy. When the cessation of breast-feeding, based on the specific circumstances before deciding on treatment.
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