What to do if you have a cough during pregnancy | What to do if you have a cough during pregnancy

　　pregnancy treatment cough Try not to use medication. If the cough is not severe, pregnant women should try to avoid medication. Instead, they can use dietary therapy to relieve symptoms.

　　“"It's a medicine that contains three parts of the poison." Once a pregnant woman feels that the disease is very serious, she should not take medicine without authorization. The correct way is to Hospital Diagnosis and treatment by a doctor. Because, during pregnancy, especially in the first three months of pregnancy, drugs are harmful to fetus The impact cannot be ignored, but not all drugs will cause teratogenesis, and specific situations should be analyzed in detail. In medicine, drugs are divided into 5 categories based on their toxic effects on the fetus:

　　A, B vitamins, B family, vitamin C, folic acid, vitamin E, no harm or toxic side effects.

　　Penicillins, cephalosporins, erythromycins, C remifen, rifampicin, gentamicin, etc., have certain teratogenic effects.

　　Rhythmide, aspirin, D tetracycline, streptomycin, kanamycin, etc. have clear teratogenic effects.

　　X: Anti-tumor drugs, sex hormone drugs or contraceptive pills have clear teratogenic effects.

　　Note: The adverse effects of drugs on the fetus mainly depend on the way the drug is administered, the toxicity and dosage of the drug, the length of drug use, and other factors.

　　Therefore, pregnant women should try to avoid using drugs for prevention or treatment throughout pregnancy unless they encounter special circumstances. disease。

　　For those who have a cough or cold Pregnant women, the first thing to do is not to be too nervous or anxious, because this is not a serious illness, and it can be cured with timely treatment. Here we introduce several commonly used methods for your reference:

　　1. When you find a mild cough, you can drink more cold water, which can relieve cough symptoms. Generally, doctors do not advocate the use of drugs to treat mild colds and coughs.

　　2. Boil water with pears, rock sugar, and red dates to drink: Preparation method: cut the pears into cubes, boil them with the red dates first, then add rock sugar and continue cooking. This method is simple and easy to do, and drinking a few cups a day will help treat coughs.

　　3. Drinking salt water has a good effect on relieving coughs caused by bronchitis, pharyngitis and respiratory infections, and can play a preventive role.