Can I take cold medicine during menstruation?

Women should not eat random foods or take random medicines during menstruation, as some medicines will have a certain impact on the menstrual period. For example, drugs for treating wind-heat colds can cause obstruction of qi and blood. Many drugs are not suitable for taking during menstruation, so even cold medicines cannot be taken casually. You must choose medicines carefully during menstruation. Learn more about whether you can take cold medicines during menstruation.

There is a wide range of medicines for common colds, but women must be cautious when using medicines for colds during menstruation. Improper use will cause blood disorder and blood stasis, and induce dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and consumptive diseases.

Can you take cold medicine during menstruation? Here are mainly divided into several situations.

1. Wind-heat cold: If you are affected by wind-heat and have symptoms such as fever, headache, sore throat, dry mouth, etc., you can use heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, but you should add some pungent and warm drugs when taking the drugs, or take them with ginger soup to limit the side effects of heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, so as to prevent them from being too much, blocking qi and blood, and leaving behind troubles.

2. Wind-cold cold: For those who are affected by wind-cold and have severe chills, mild fever, nasal congestion and clear runny nose as the main symptoms, it is advisable to use anti-cold medicines that are pungent and warm in nature.

3. Heat entering the blood chamber: caused by encountering wind and rain or wading through water during menstruation, with fever as severe as malaria, which is lighter during the day and heavier at night. Those with particularly serious conditions should be hospitalized promptly for treatment.

Generally speaking, just be careful not to take blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs during menstruation, and just read the instructions before taking the medicine.

It is easiest to get sick before and after menstruation because of low resistance, so it is best to take precautions. First, get more rest; second, try to avoid going to public places; third, improve nutrition; fourth, do not eat raw or cold food; fifth, drink more water and eat more fruit.