What to do if you have a cough and phlegm in late pregnancy

Coughing with phlegm is a very common symptom, especially when suffering from respiratory diseases such as colds. If it were an ordinary person, taking some medicine would quickly relieve the symptoms. However, if a pregnant woman in late pregnancy has similar symptoms, she must not use drugs indiscriminately. This is a very sensitive time and it may affect the development of the fetus. So, what should you do if you have cough and phlegm in late pregnancy? Let’s take a look below.

1. When you find a mild cough, you can drink more cold boiled water to relieve the cough symptoms. Generally speaking, drinking more warm boiled water will make pregnant women sweat slightly, and can also replenish moisture in the throat of pregnant women, thereby alleviating cough symptoms. Under normal circumstances, doctors do not recommend the use of medication to treat mild colds and coughs.

2. Drinking salt water is effective in relieving coughs caused by bronchitis, pharyngitis and respiratory tract infections, and can play a preventive role.

3. To make ginger soup, put two slices of fresh ginger into 500 ml of cold water, boil it, then add a spoonful of brown sugar and give it to pregnant women. This is mainly because ginger has the effect of warming the middle and dispersing cold, while brown sugar has the effect of warming the middle and harmonizing the stomach. This method is suitable for cough caused by colds.

4. Boil water with pears, rock sugar and red dates to drink: Preparation method: cut the pear into cubes, boil it with red dates first, then add rock sugar and continue boiling. This is a simple and easy method and drinking a few cups a day will help treat your cough.

Precautions for pregnant women with cough and phlegm

1. Rest can alleviate the symptoms, so patients with cough should pay attention to rest.

2. Keep your body warm to prevent yourself from catching a cold.

3. Drink more water to replenish excess water consumed by the body.

4. Eat more nutritious foods and try to avoid irritating foods such as tobacco, alcohol, spicy foods, cold drinks, etc.

5. Treat colds or coughs as soon as possible, don't delay.

What should pregnant women eat to cure cold and cough quickly?

1. Radish and green onion

Preparation method: 1 radish, 6 scallions, 15 grams of ginger. Use three bowls of water to boil the radish first, then add the scallions and ginger. Cook into a bowl of soup and drink it all at once, including the residue.

Applicable: Clearing away lung qi and relieving exterior symptoms, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Treats wind-cold cough, foamy sputum, chills, fatigue and body aches, etc.

2. White radish honey

Preparation method: 1 large white radish, 30 grams of honey, 5 white peppercorns, and 2 grams of ephedra. Wash the radish, cut it into cubes, put it in a bowl, pour in honey, white pepper, ephedra, etc., steam it for half an hour, and drink it while it is hot. You will recover when you sweat in bed.

Applicable: Inducing sweat and dispelling cold, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, treating cough caused by wind and cold.

3. Fresh pear and Fritillaria

Preparation method: 500 grams of fresh pears, 6 grams of Fritillaria powder, and 30 grams of white sugar. Peel the pear, split it in half, remove the core, fill it with ground Fritillaria and sugar, put it in a bowl and steam it until cooked. Eat in the morning and evening.

Applicable: Clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, dispersing stagnation and relieving exterior symptoms. It is used to treat cough or lung abscess, with symptoms including chest pain, chills, cough, fever, dry mouth, dry throat, yellow and smelly sputum or sputum with blood and pus.

4. Rock sugar bird's nest porridge

Preparation method: 10 grams of bird's nest, 100 grams of rice, 50 grams of rock sugar. Wash the rice and put it into the pot. Add three bowls of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. Put the soaked and purified bird's nest into a pot and boil it with rice for about 1 hour. Add rock sugar and let it melt.

Applicable: Nourishes yin and moistens the lungs, relieves cough and resolves phlegm, treats chronic cough due to lung deficiency and cough and asthma that damages yin.

5. Bird's Nest Pear

Preparation method: 5 grams of bird's nest (soaked in water), 2 white pears, 10 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa, and 5 grams of rock sugar. Dig out the core of the white pear, put the other three ingredients into the pear, cover it tightly, put it in a bowl, stew it in water and eat it.

Applicable: Nourishing yin and moistening dryness, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Treats long-term cough with phlegm, shortness of breath and fatigue.

6. Soy milk drink

Method: Soak soybeans, grind the juice, boil it and add rock sugar to drink. Drink 1 bowl on an empty stomach every morning.

Applicable: Strengthens the spleen and relieves fullness, moistens dryness and reduces water retention; clears the lungs and relieves cough, and resolves phlegm. It is used to treat malnutrition, emaciation, lung heat and cough, etc.