Starlix and Pregnancy
Having a healthy pregnancy with diabetes is known to be difficult, but women with preexisting diabetes are as likely as women without the disorder to give birth to a healthy child. The determining factor of a healthy pregnancy for a woman with diabetes is keeping blood glucose within the target range, ideally both before getting pregnant and during the pregnancy. To do this a diabetic woman needs a very carefully thought-out and flexible diabetes treatment plan reasonably combining meals, exercises and any physical activity and the intake of anti-diabetic medicines.
Usually women with diabetes type 1 call for special attention when they become pregnant because this is the type of diabetes that affects younger people. Diabetes type 2 was earlier typical of aged people, therefore no correlation between pregnancy with diabetes type 2 and anti-diabetic agents was either studied or established. Nowadays, however, more and more pregnant women with diabetes type 2 are being seen. The problem is that unless their blood sugar levels remain normal throughout the whole pregnancy, which is next to impossible because during a pregnancy a woman's body undergoes changes which often manifest themselves in accompanying quick changes of glucose levels, pregnant women with preexisting diabetes type 2 run a high risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, having a baby with serious birth defects and having a very large baby.
Though there are no consistent studies proving the negative effect of Starlix on the course of the pregnancy development, normally diabetes specialists unanimously say that Starlix should not be used during pregnancy. As it has been said, Starlix belongs to the group of hypoglycemic medications and can trigger a hypoglycemic condition. And hypoglycemia suggests a high risk for congenital malformations associated with spikes of blood sugar which are a natural consequence of hypoglycemia - after your glucose level falls down it springs up affecting you severely, as well as a higher risk for human teratogenicity. One more serious complication which can be caused by the use of Stralix during pregnancy is that under the influence of extremely low blood sugar a baby grows in its proportions and it can make labor very dangerous for a pregnant woman. Thus, a good and effective medicine Starlix may prove to be for you in your everyday life, pregnancy is a special condition when any potential complication may develop at a speed of light affecting both the mother and the baby. That is why it is of vital importance to monitor the levels of blood sugar and find optimal ways to keep them within the target range.
You should not take Stralix during lactation either. Some studies in animals have shown negative impacts produced by the medicine. Though they are not approved, doctors usually change the therapy for the period of both pregnancy and lactation. Very often they suggest insulin therapy instead in order to guard both the mother and the baby from serious complications.