Pregnant woman coughs badly at night and has an itchy throat

Pregnant women who have severe coughs and itchy throats at night are generally caused by colds. Colds are common diseases and can be treated with diet therapy to relieve coughs and fevers. Friends with throat inflammation or physical weakness may also experience severe itchy throats and coughs. Patients need to choose appropriate treatment methods based on their condition. However, patients who cough severely at night should pay attention to oral hygiene and diet.

There are many reasons for itchy throat and cough. We need to take different treatment methods according to the cause and not treat it blindly.

1. Cough caused by cold: If the cold symptoms are relatively mild, you can use diet therapy and try not to use drug treatment. When you first start coughing, you can drink more cold boiled water, or you can boil water with pears, rock sugar, and red dates. Dice the pear and cook it with the red dates first, then add rock sugar and continue cooking. This is a simple and easy method, and drinking a few cups a day will help treat your cough.

2. Cough caused by physical weakness: Another important reason for cough in pregnant women is that their constitution is relatively yin-deficient, so they will cough after pregnancy, and the coughing symptoms will disappear automatically after the baby is born. In such a situation, you should pay more attention to your daily diet and rely on diet therapy to relieve the symptoms of cough. The diet therapy at this time is different from the diet therapy for a cold, and must focus on relieving cough, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. You can choose some small folk remedies that have been popular among the people for a long time and are very effective. Such as pears stewed with rock sugar, pears stewed with Sichuan Fritillary Bulbs, kumquats stewed with sugar, etc.

3. Cough caused by inflammation: For coughs caused by bronchitis, pharyngitis and respiratory tract infections, drinking a moderate amount of light salt water can be very helpful and can also play a preventive role. Of course, if the condition is serious, you should seek medical attention promptly and follow the doctor's advice.

There are some specific reasons why pregnant women have itchy throat and cough, and it also explains what to do about itchy throat and cough caused by these reasons. As a pregnant woman, you must pay attention to your own health after pregnancy, because illness in pregnant women may have adverse effects on the fetus.

What to do if a pregnant woman has a cold and fever

1. Physical cooling: For pregnant women, if they have a cold and fever, they need to take measures to reduce the fever moderately. This is because fever will increase the body's metabolic rate and will be accompanied by many uncomfortable symptoms such as headache, loss of appetite, general fatigue, palpitations, and even dehydration, which will also increase the burden on the cardiopulmonary function of pregnant women. As for methods of reducing fever, generally speaking, if the pregnant woman's body temperature is not higher than 38.5 degrees Celsius and she has no obvious symptoms of discomfort, physical methods can be considered to help reduce the fever.

2. Use of antipyretics: It is recommended that pregnant women who only have a low fever should try not to use antipyretics. However, if the body temperature is above 38.5 degrees Celsius and is accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms such as headache and nausea, medication needs to be used under the guidance of a doctor. Otherwise, if the disease is delayed, it will cause harm to both the pregnant woman and the fetus.

3. Find out the cause of the fever: It is more important to find out the harm of the pathogen that causes the fever to the mother and fetus than to blindly treat the fever. Therefore, when a pregnant woman has a fever, it is important to find out the cause of the fever and prescribe the right medicine.