Can pregnant women take a bath with honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle is a relatively good Chinese medicinal material, which has therapeutic and health-care effects on the body. Pregnant women can use honeysuckle to take a bath. For example, pregnant women are prone to physical deterioration during pregnancy, and eczema may occur at this time. Taking a bath with honeysuckle can achieve the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. It also has the effect of relieving itching, and can repel mosquitoes and reduce fire. Let's take a look at this aspect.

Can pregnant women take a bath with honeysuckle?

Pregnant women can take a bath with honeysuckle if they have eczema. Since many expectant mothers are unwilling to take oral medication or hormone therapy during pregnancy for fear that the medication will have a certain impact on the fetus, they usually turn to traditional Chinese medicine for help. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eczema in pregnant women is mostly caused by wind-heat or rheumatism invading the human body, soaking the blood vessels, and failing to relieve it internally or penetrate the outside, resulting in accumulation in the body. Honeysuckle can indeed alleviate the disease.

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, tonifying deficiency and treating wind. It is mainly used to treat bloating and lower body diseases, fever due to febrile diseases, heat and toxic carbuncles, and tumors. It has certain therapeutic effects on dizziness, dry mouth, sweating, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles, erysipelas, mumps, and purulent tonsillitis.

Boiled water with honeysuckle vines has a certain therapeutic effect on children's eczema and other skin itching, and has an inhibitory effect on many pathogenic bacteria and viruses of livestock and poultry. If a certain dose of honeysuckle vine leaves (honeysuckle vine) powder or boiled water can be added during the animal breeding process, it will have a very good effect on the prevention and treatment of animal febrile fever, wind-heat cold, pharyngitis, pneumonia, dysentery, swelling and ulcers, erysipelas, cellulitis and other diseases.

Precautions for pregnant women to take a bath

1. Pregnant women should take a bath frequently. Many special physiological changes occur in a woman's body after pregnancy, such as vigorous secretion of sweat glands and sebaceous glands, which manifests as easy sweating and increased secretion of sweat and oil on the head. Taking a bath and washing hair frequently and keeping oneself clean and hygienic can prevent infection and reduce skin diseases. Washing your hair frequently can also keep your hair soft, shiny, beautiful and comfortable, which is beneficial to the physical and mental health of pregnant women.

2. Pregnant women should avoid sitting in a bath. Pregnant women are suitable for taking a shower, but not a sitting bath, because during pregnancy, the placenta villus produces a lot of estrogen and progesterone, and the amount of progesterone is greater than estrogen. Therefore, at this stage, the shedding of vaginal epithelial cells is greater than the proliferation, which will reduce the amount of lactic acid in the vagina, thereby reducing its killing power against foreign pathogens. If you take a sitz bath, the dirty water after the bath may enter the vagina, and the vagina's disease resistance will be weakened, which can easily cause cervicitis, adnexitis, or even intrauterine or vulvar infection, leading to premature birth.

3. The water temperature for pregnant women to bathe should not be too high. In the early stages of pregnancy, that is, the first three months, the room temperature should not be too high when pregnant women take a bath. The temperature should be such that the skin does not feel cold, generally 27℃ ~ 37℃. Because if the water temperature or room temperature is too high, it is likely that the fetus will develop poorly due to lack of oxygen. In the later stages of pregnancy, you should avoid taking very hot baths, and the bathing time should not be too long. Otherwise, it is easy to suffer from hypoxia and suffocation, and it may also cause fetal intrauterine hypoxia, and in severe cases, even fetal stillbirth.