What should pregnant women do if they catch a cold and have a fever?

Pregnancy is a happy thing for women, even if it takes ten months to carry a baby.

1. Generally, pregnant women with a cold and a fever below 38 degrees do not need to take medicine to reduce the fever. At this time, pregnant women need to drink more boiled water. Fever will consume calories, the water in the body will evaporate, and the salt will be lost. Therefore, it is best for pregnant women to drink more water. This can not only replenish water in time but also facilitate the excretion of metabolites and toxins in the body. If a mother sweats too much, she can add an appropriate amount of sugar and iodized salt to the water to maintain the balance of sugar and water in the body.

2. At the same time, use warm water for bathing. Warm water bathing is beneficial to the expansion of blood vessels in the skin and heat dissipation. When wiping the whole body with warm water, pay attention to keeping warm. If you feel cold or your pulse changes, stop immediately. Don't wipe with cold water for the sake of coolness. Cold water will cause the blood vessels in the skin to contract, which is not conducive to heat dissipation.

3. Family members can use ginger and brown sugar to boil ginger soup for pregnant women. Pregnant women should try to drink more ginger soup when it is hot to warm their bodies. Then, cover themselves with more quilts, cover their whole body in the quilts, and leave their mouth and nose exposed to ensure smooth breathing. After about an hour, when sweat started to appear all over the body, the fever had mostly subsided. Of course, pregnant women should not rush to take off the quilt after sweating. They should slowly reduce the fever and pay attention to keeping warm and drinking hot ginger soup after sweating.

4. If a pregnant woman has a fever with a temperature above 38.5 degrees Celsius and is accompanied by discomfort, she should go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible, otherwise a severe fever may harm the fetus. Pregnant women must take medication under the guidance of a doctor and must not take medication on their own. Because it is not only related to the medicine itself, but also to the pregnancy process.

The above is a relatively detailed introduction on what to do if a pregnant woman catches a cold and has a fever. I believe that family members who encounter this situation for the first time will definitely be very anxious. In fact, for this problem, the first thing to do is to lower the temperature. Physical cooling is a relatively safe method. Of course, if the fever is high, you must not hesitate and send her to the hospital for treatment.