Why pregnant women should use antipyretic patches with caution

We all know that women are more sensitive during pregnancy, and they cannot take medicines at will during pregnancy, which will affect the health of the baby, and some serious ones will cause the baby to become deformed. The antipyretic patch says that pregnant women should use it with caution, so can pregnant women still use it?

The antipyretic patch says pregnant women should use it with caution, can I still use it?

For ordinary people like us, fever and colds need to be treated with antipyretics and medication. However, pregnant women are a relatively special group of people and cannot take medication casually to reduce fever. So how should pregnant women reduce fever? Many people ask why pregnant women should use antipyretic patches with caution. In fact, antipyretic patches are the best physical fever-reducing tools, so pregnant women can also use them appropriately.

In fact, pregnant women do not need to use antipyretic patches. Generally speaking, if the body temperature of a pregnant woman is not higher than 38.5 degrees Celsius and she has no obvious discomfort symptoms, she can consider using physical methods to help reduce fever, such as ice pillow, warm water washing, etc. Since the fever-reducing patch is an external plaster and a physical fever-reducing device, it is mainly absorbed through the skin and does not enter the blood circulation system, so it will not affect the fetus. Therefore, pregnant women can also use the fever-reducing patch for physical fever reduction, which will not affect the fetus. However, the fever-reducing effect of the fever-reducing patch on adults is not as good as that on infants.

What are the misconceptions about pregnant women taking medicine when they have a fever?

Some pregnant women are reluctant to go to the hospital when they have a fever or a cold, and prefer to take medicine at home to reduce fever. Have you ever made this common mistake?

1. Take a lot of antipyretics

In order to reduce fever quickly, many pregnant women often do not follow the doctor's advice and take too much antipyretic drugs. In fact, doing so is harmful to the fetus. As long as the body temperature is controlled below high fever, heat shock can be avoided. When taking antipyretics, you must pay attention to the replenishment of water and electrolyte solutions. Oral antipyretics need to be used alternately with physical antipyretic measures, especially for pregnant women, who are more effective in using physical antipyretic measures.

2. High fever = serious illness, low fever = mild illness

Some pregnant women believe that the higher the fever, the more serious the condition. This view is one-sided. If the body enters a state of severe decline and its reaction ability is low, it often does not have a fever when it should, or has a low fever when it should have a high fever, or even the body temperature is significantly lower than normal. Fever is just a symptom. It is the body's response to bacterial and viral pyrogens. The severity of the disease cannot be measured by the level of fever. Of course, if the fever is too high, it will damage the balance of the body's extracellular fluid and cause complications.

3. Reduce fever as soon as it occurs

Fever is an active defense reaction of the body, and it is the process of the struggle between the body's immune cells and foreign pathogens. Fever caused by many major diseases also has its own unique "fever type". The identification of the "fever type" can help doctors make a correct diagnosis.

If a pregnant woman has a fever, she must be extra careful and not take any medicine casually, because some medicines may have a great impact on the fetus. However, pregnant women can use antipyretic patches appropriately, because antipyretic patches are physical fever reducers and are not medicines. We have also introduced in detail the misconceptions about taking medicine for fever in pregnant women, and hope that everyone can pay attention to it.