What should pregnant women do if they have a severe nasal congestion due to a cold?

Pregnancy is actually the most beautiful time in a woman’s life. However, if a pregnant woman catches a cold at this time, it will actually be a troublesome thing. These people often have symptoms of headache and fever. And there are often symptoms of decreased appetite to varying degrees. Nasal congestion is also very common. Aggressive care is required. How should pregnant women with severe cold and nasal congestion be treated with diet?

Diet therapy for colds in pregnant women

1. Apple honey water: Peel 5 apples, cut into small pieces, add 1 liter of water, boil for 5 minutes, cool naturally to about 40℃, add appropriate amount of honey and stir evenly, drink in small amounts several times a day.

2. Shredded ginger and radish soup: 25 grams of shredded ginger, 50 grams of sliced ​​radish, add 500 ml of water, cook for 15 minutes, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and drink while hot.

3. Onion and garlic porridge: Take 10 clean scallions, chop them, 3 cloves of garlic, 50 grams of rice, add water and cook into porridge, drink it while hot.

4. Cabbage and scallion root soup: Wash and chop 3 cabbage hearts, 6 scallion roots, boil 1 bowl of soup, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and drink it while hot.

5. Chicken soup: Wash and clean a tender chicken, add water and boil it. Add seasonings (pepper, ginger, chopped green onion) to the chicken soup when eating, or use it to make noodles. It can relieve nasal congestion and runny nose symptoms during colds and enhance the body's resistance.

6. Radish soup: Wash and slice 150 grams of white radish, add 900 ml of water, boil until 600 ml, add 5 grams of white sugar, drink one cup while it is hot, and then drink another cup after half an hour.

7. Rice vinegar radish dish: 250 grams of radish, appropriate amount of rice vinegar. Wash and slice the radish, soak it in vinegar for one hour, and serve it with rice.

8. Tangerine peel and ginger tea: 10 grams each of tangerine peel and ginger, boil in water, add 10-20 grams of brown sugar when drinking.

9. Ginger and garlic tea: 15 grams each of garlic and ginger, cut into slices, add a bowl of water, boil until half a bowl remains, add 10-20 grams of brown sugar when drinking.

10. Ginger and sugar drink: 15 grams of ginger slices, 3 pieces of 3 cm long green onion, add 50 grams of water, boil and add brown sugar.

11. Scallion and fermented black bean soup: 30 grams of scallion with roots, 10 grams of fermented black beans, 3 slices of ginger, add 500 grams of water and boil, then add 30 grams of rice wine, drink it hot, cover with a blanket to sweat.

12. Orange peel water: Add 30 grams of fresh orange peel (15 grams of dried orange peel) to 3 cups of water, boil it into 2 cups, add sugar, and drink it while hot.

13. Coriander and soybean soup: 30 grams of coriander, 50 grams of soybeans, add 1000 ml of water, fry until 600 ml, and season with salt.

14. Snow pear stew: Wash the snow pear, chop it with the skin, add rock sugar, and steam it in a clay pot or a clay pot. Suitable for wind-heat cough.

Warm reminder: Once a pregnant woman has severe nasal congestion due to a cold, she actually needs to take further serious dietary therapy. It would be best if you could drink some chrysanthemum sugar tea. At this time, you need 30 grams of chrysanthemum, then add an appropriate amount of sugar and drink it instead of tea. Pregnant women should not take medicine casually, otherwise they may easily suffer miscarriage.