Can pregnant women use cooling patches?

Pregnant women are prone to symptoms of cold and fever in daily life. Once a pregnant woman has a cold and fever, it is indeed troublesome because many medicines are useless. At this time, many pregnant women want to use cooling patches. Cooling patches can indeed achieve the effect of physical cooling, and because it is not taking medicine, its side effects are relatively small. Pregnant women should understand some precautions when using cooling patches and cannot use them repeatedly.

Can pregnant women use cooling patches?

Pregnant women can use cooling patches. Cooling patches are external patches and are physical cooling products. They are mainly absorbed through the skin and do not enter the blood circulation, so they will not affect the fetus. Moreover, the cooling patch is mainly made of gypsum, borneol, isatis indigotica, forsythia, bupleurum, honeysuckle, scutellaria, isatis root, licorice, schizonepeta, and mint as the main raw materials. It is processed into a natural medicine without any side effects, with a mild smell and not easy to cause allergies. Therefore, pregnant women can use the cooling patch.

If the pregnant woman's body temperature is not higher than 38.5 degrees Celsius and she has no obvious symptoms of discomfort, the first choice should be physical cooling, such as: ice pillow, warm water wiping, fever patch, etc. However, if the pregnant woman's body temperature exceeds 38.5 degrees and is accompanied by other discomfort symptoms such as cough, headache, and nasal congestion, it is recommended to seek medical attention in time to avoid delaying the condition. Using only a fever patch will have little effect.

Precautions for pregnant women to use antipyretic patches

1. Pay attention to usage time

Generally speaking, the effect of a cooling patch can last for 4 to 8 hours, and you can remove it when the fever subsides. But don't remove it too early, so as not to reduce the cooling effect. If your body continues to have a fever, you can replace it with a new cooling patch. Generally, the cooling patch can be used for up to about 10 hours.

2. Cannot be used repeatedly

In order to maintain hygiene and freezing effect, please use each cooling patch once and do not use it repeatedly, which will greatly reduce the cooling effect. Generally, a cooling patch will become thinner after 8 hours of use. At this time, it can be discarded. Do not put it in the refrigerator for reuse. You should replace it with a new cooling patch.

3. Pay attention to the area of ​​use

Cooling patches can be applied to the patient's forehead, neck, temples or other parts that require cooling or cold compresses; they can be cut into appropriate sizes as needed; if you want to speed up the cooling process, you can use several patches and apply them to large blood vessels such as the left and right axillary arteries and left and right femoral arteries at the same time to help reduce fever. However, do not apply the fever-reducing patch on the navel, chest, back of the ears, soles of the feet, or vulva to avoid causing discomfort. Do not use around eyes or mouth.