What should pregnant women do if they catch a cold or fever?

Only when the pregnant woman is healthy and not attacked by viruses can the baby grow up more healthily. However, pregnancy takes more than nine months, and it is inevitable to have symptoms such as colds and fevers during this period. At this time, you must pay attention to timely treatment to prevent the cold virus from harming your baby. However, pregnant women cannot take medicine casually, because the medicine may harm the fetus. So, what should pregnant women do if they have a fever, cold or flu?

1. Exercise to improve your physical fitness. Also, pay attention to adding or removing clothes according to weather changes to prevent yourself from getting cold or hot.

2. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, avoid excessive fatigue, and enhance the body's ability to resist disease.

3. Appropriately increase the intake of nutritious foods, such as lean meat, fish, milk, eggs, animal liver, soy products, fresh vegetables and fruits, etc., to replenish the body's energy consumption.

4. Do not sleep outdoors at night, do not use fans excessively, and do not sleep in cool places with drafts, such as under the eaves or near the wall, to avoid catching a cold.

5. When you are sweating in hot weather, you should not rinse your head with cold water. Be careful to avoid rain on rainy days. If your clothes get wet, change into dry clothes immediately after returning home.

When a heat cold first occurs, you can use three to four raw green onions, boil them into a soup and drink it frequently, or take some Huoxiang Zhengqi water. If you have symptoms such as red and sore throat, irritability, thirst, short and red urine, you should use Chinese patent medicines such as Banlangen Granules and Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets. You can also boil 10 grams each of mulberry leaves, chrysanthemums, mint, forsythia, and bamboo leaves in water and take it in 2 doses, or take a packet of cold granules 3 times a day. If the fever is mild, you can also take Sangju Pills, one packet each time, 3-4 times a day.

If a pregnant woman has a cold or fever and does not want to take medicine, she can take water boiled with scallions to relieve the symptoms. If she wants to take medicine, she must take it under the guidance of a doctor to avoid harming the fetus by taking medicine casually. Be careful not to drink ginger water or other warming or sweating foods after catching a cold, as this will only make the condition worse.