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Can you use an insulin pump if you are pregnant?
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Can you use an insulin pump if you are pregnant?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the use of insulin pump therapy for people planning pregnancy.

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you have an insulin pump if you're pregnant? It's actually a mandatory requirement for all people in England that if they are looking, planning pregnancy, to have access to an insulin pump if they have type 1 diabetes, right? So we have loads of patients who come to us in the pre-pregnancy clinic who come purely because for optimization of control and they can ask for an insulin pump and it's a recommendation to NHS England as part of pre-pregnancy optimization and during the pregnancy and we do constantly put females who are trying to have a planned pregnancy in the next 12 months and switch them across to an insulin pump for better control and for obviously better control of their symptoms.

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