What causes stomach pain in early pregnancy?

Pregnancy is a great joyous event for a family. Therefore, once a woman finds out that she is pregnant, she immediately becomes the center of the family. Family members must consider the pregnant woman's best interests when doing anything and must not do anything that would hurt her in any way. For new mothers, they may experience some uncomfortable symptoms after becoming pregnant. You should know that these are normal phenomena and you don’t need to worry too much. They will be fine as long as you get through the first three months. Of course, if the reaction is very serious, you must seek medical attention. Everything should be based on the child.

The symptoms of stomach pain during pregnancy are aggravated, which is a normal physiological phenomenon, mainly due to endocrine changes during pregnancy. The increase in the secretion of multiple hormones significantly prolongs the gastric emptying time and intestinal transit time during pregnancy, so there is often a feeling of fullness after eating. In addition, the tension of the lower esophageal sphincter during pregnancy is also reduced, and the pressure in the esophagus of pregnant women is low while the pressure in the stomach is high, so acidic secretions reflux to the lower esophagus, causing stomach pain during pregnancy to worsen. This is especially true for those with a history of chronic gastritis or chronic gastric ulcers, especially when the body position changes.

In terms of diet, be careful not to eat spicy food. Eat small meals frequently and eat less high-starch food to reduce gastric acid secretion. If the stomach disease worsens, you need to go to the gastroenterology department for treatment and use some gastric mucosal protective agents or antacids to relieve the burning pain in the stomach. Applying a hot water bottle to the affected area is good for relieving pain and generally has no effect on the fetus. It is recommended that you go to the hospital in time if the pain is unbearable.

First of all, there is no need to be nervous. Pregnant women should appropriately reduce their diet, especially foods with high sugar content. In today's social conditions, malnourished pregnant women are rare. On the contrary, there are many pregnant women with overnutrition. Many people consciously or unconsciously increase their food intake after pregnancy, which is not good for the spleen, stomach and fetal development. You can give pregnant women more cornmeal porridge. If the digestion is good, you can add some millet porridge and yam porridge (rice and yam in half, cut the yam into smaller pieces, and the cooking time must be longer, at least 15 minutes longer than the usual boiling time). Try not to eat pure rice porridge. Do not add any additional ingredients to the porridge at will, but you can add some dates appropriately. The diet should be light, and after the stomach pain symptoms are alleviated, high-calorie and high-nutrition foods can be gradually added. If the stomach pain symptoms are relatively severe, you can use 20 grams of white peony root and 10 grams of roasted licorice to make a decoction and take it, one dose per day, decocting each dose three times and taking it in three times. Heat it appropriately before each dose. (You must buy medicinal materials from Tong Ren Tang or other pharmacies with better quality, because the current situation of the Chinese medicine retail market is indeed not optimistic. This is also the reason why Chinese medicine sometimes seems to have ineffective effects.) In addition, please do not try the types of food mentioned above lightly. Generally speaking, stomach pain is mostly caused by excessive secretion of gastric acid. The above-mentioned foods are without exception high in sugar content, which can easily lead to excessive secretion of gastric acid and aggravate pain symptoms.

This shows the greatness of a mother. After enduring many hardships, she will welcome her own angel. Therefore, mothers are the greatest, and we should love our mothers more.