What should pregnant women do if they have a severe sore throat due to a cold?

Pregnant women have weaker immunity, so they are the group most likely to catch a cold. Pregnant women cannot take any medicine randomly, so their colds heal very slowly. The symptoms of each cold are different, some have fever, some have cough, and some have runny nose. As each person's physical condition is different, the severity of a cold is also different. Let’s take a look at what a pregnant woman should do if she has a severe sore throat due to a cold?

1. What should pregnant women do if they have a sore throat and runny nose due to a cold? First find out what type of cold it is

If a pregnant woman has a sore throat and runny nose due to a cold, she must first find out what type of cold it is so that she can treat it symptomatically.

Pregnant women with cold, sore throat and runny nose:

Most likely a cold.

Wind-cold colds are caused by the invasion of wind-cold evil and the failure of lung qi to flow freely.

Symptoms may include: severe aversion to cold, mild fever, no sweating, headache and body aches, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, cough and spitting of thin white sputum, no thirst or thirst with preference for hot drinks, and thin white tongue coating.

The treatment method should be mainly based on relieving exterior symptoms with pungent and warming properties.

Pregnant women with cold, sore throat and runny nose:

The most likely cause is a wind-heat cold.

Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat evil invading the surface and disharmony of lung qi.

Symptoms include: severe fever, slight aversion to wind, headache, sweating, red and swollen sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, nasal congestion and yellow nasal discharge, thirst and desire to drink, red tip and edges of the tongue, and a thin white and slightly yellowish coating.

The treatment of wind-heat cold mainly focuses on clearing away heat and detoxifying.

2. What should pregnant women do if they have a sore throat and runny nose?

1. Diet therapy

(1) Bean curd stick porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of rice, 10 grams of bean curd sticks.

practice:

Put rice and bean curd into the pot at the same time, add appropriate amount of water, cook into porridge, and eat while hot.

(2) Winter melon and barley porridge

Ingredients: 500 grams of winter melon, 20 grams of raw coix seeds, and 50 grams of rice.

practice:

Cut winter melon into small pieces.

Put winter melon, coix seed and rice into the pot at the same time, add appropriate amount of water and cook porridge. If you think the taste is too bland, you can add a little salt to season it at the end.

(3) Carrot and Water Chestnut Porridge

Ingredients: 150g carrot, 250g water chestnut, 50g rice.

practice:

Slice the carrots and crack the water chestnuts.

Put carrots and water chestnuts into the pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook into porridge. You can season with a little salt or sugar.

2. Treatment remedies

(1) Mung bean tea

Prescription: 50 grams of mung beans, 5 grams of green tea, and 15 grams of rock sugar.

Preparation method: Wash and mash the mung beans, put them into a bowl with tea and rock sugar, and brew them with boiling water for about 20 minutes. Drink as tea.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies.

(2) Boil lily in water

Boil water with fresh lilies until they are soft. Eat the lilies and drink the lily water instead of your daily drinking water to remove internal heat and prevent colds caused by internal heat. Lily water is also very effective for sore throats.

Lily has a naturally sweet taste, and lily water tastes similar to boiled water, nothing special about it.

(3) Boil cabbage roots in water

Use the root of the cabbage, which is the part that we don’t use and is often cut off when eating cabbage. Wash it, add green onion and boil it in water. Drink it while it is hot. It has the effect of reducing fever and inducing sweating.

(4) Yinqiao mixture

Prescription: 30g each of Isatis Root, Lonicera Japonica, and Forsythia suspensa, and 10g of Schizonepeta tenuifolia (added later).

Preparation method: decoct into 50% pus, take 30-60 ml each time, 3 times a day, drink plenty of water after taking the medicine.

Add or subtract: For cough, add 10 grams each of raw licorice, platycodon, and almond. For sore throat, add 10 grams each of Chinese lantern and Sophora flavescens.

Efficacy: Mainly used to treat wind-heat cold, red throat and sore throat, red eyes and fever, or cough with yellow sputum, etc.

3. Drug treatment

(1) Isatis Root Granules

The main ingredient of Isatis root granules is Isatis root. The auxiliary materials are sucrose and dextrin.

Functions and indications: Clears away heat and detoxifies, cools blood and relieves sore throat. It is used for sore throat and dry oropharynx caused by excessive heat in the lungs and stomach; and for acute tonsillitis with the above symptoms.

(2) Yinqiao Jiedu Pills

Yinqiao Jiedu Pills are pungent and cool in nature, and can relieve exterior symptoms, clear away heat and detoxify. It is composed of ingredients such as honeysuckle, forsythia, platycodon, mint, burdock, and licorice.

Used for wind-heat cold, fever, headache, cough, dry mouth and sore throat.

(3) Yinhuang oral liquid

Yinhuang oral liquid is mainly used to clear away heat, detoxify and reduce inflammation. Used for upper respiratory tract infection, acute tonsillitis, and pharyngitis.

The honeysuckle extract and scutellaria baicalensis extract solutions are combined to form a reddish-brown clear liquid; the taste is sweet with a slight bitterness.