[Blood glucose and serum insulin levels in newborn infants of diabetic mothers during feeding with an oligosaccharide mixture].

Macrosome newborns from mothers with an insulin-bound diabetes mellitus and also from mothers with a gestational diabetes show in the cord blood nearly always insulin levels additional to increased glucose values, which, compared with the normal controls are ten-fold higher in some cases. During the first three hours of life the blood glucose values decrease extremely. To prevent central injuries, caused by stronger hypoglycaemia, the early supply of oligosaccharides by continuous gastric infusion has proved as the most careful procedure. Stronger increases of blood glucose do not occur by this method and the insulin levels show a continuous tendency to normalisation.