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Option 1 : Hyperglycemia
- Infants of Diabetic mothers is more likely to have low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) usually after birth, and during first few days of life. This is because the baby gets more sugar than needed from the mother. They have a high level of insulin than needed after birth. Hence for the above question the correct answer is Option 1.
- Infants of diabetic mothers are usually hypocalcemic and also have decreased parathyroid hormone levels. Generally Neonatal hypocalcemia usually occurs within the first 2 days of life and is caused by prematurity, being small for gestational age, maternal diabetes or hyperparathyroidism, and perinatal asphyxia.
- Polycythaemia is also a biggest problem which is seen in some infants born to diabetic mothers and causes can be
- fetal hyperinsulinaemia
- elevated Erythropoitine levels
- due to intrauterine chronic hypoxia
- Macrosomia also occurs in the babies of diabetic mother because a higher amount of blood glucose passes through the placenta to the fetal circulation. As a result, extra glucose in the fetus is stored as body fat causing macrosomia, which is also known as 'large for gestational age
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