Can I take cold medicine when I have my period?

Many women do not pay too much attention to taking medicine during menstruation, but women's experts remind that taking medicine during menstruation requires caution to avoid side effects. Women should take medicine during menstruation under the specific guidance of a doctor. If necessary, the prescription should be changed or the dosage of the medicine should be adjusted as appropriate to achieve the best treatment effect.

Women must be cautious when taking medicine during menstruation and consider the safety factor of the medicine: on the one hand, some medicines can cause menstrual irregularities; on the other hand, menstrual bleeding can also affect the efficacy of the medicine.

1. Wind-heat cold: It is caused by wind-cold and wind-heat. The symptoms are mainly fever, headache, sore throat, thirst, etc. You can use heat-clearing and fire-removing drugs, but try to add some pungent and warm drugs when taking the medicine, or swallow it with ginger and sugar water to restrain the side effects of heat-clearing and fire-removing drugs, avoid excessive, block blood qi, and leave sequelae.

2. Wind-cold cold: For patients who experience cold symptoms, with severe chills, mild fever, nasal congestion and clear runny nose as clinical symptoms, it is advisable to use anti-cold granules with pungent and warm properties to relieve the symptoms.

3. Heat entering the blood chamber: caused by exposure to wind and rain or going out during menstruation, with fever as severe as malaria, which is mild during the day and severe at night. If the condition is very serious, you should be hospitalized immediately for treatment.

4. Under normal circumstances, you don’t need to take blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs during menstruation. Just read the instructions before taking the medicine. If the fever and cold are not very serious, it is recommended to use diet therapy. However, if it is a serious cold, you can consult a doctor and then take medicine. Do not take medicine indiscriminately.

5. General fever and cold medicines have a wide coverage, but women must be cautious when taking cold medicines during their menstrual period. Improper use will cause qi and blood disorders, blood circulation obstruction, and cause menstrual pain, amenorrhea, deficiency and other diseases.

Frequently asked questions

During menstruation, immunity decreases and it is very easy to catch a fever or a cold. Experts point out that female friends are often prone to catching colds during their menstrual period due to decreased immunity. They can also take cold medicine at this time, but they just need to be careful not to take blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicines. But if the fever and cold are not very serious, you don't need to take cold medicine, just drink more water.

1. Hemostatic drugs. For example, Anluoxue and vitamin B12 can reduce the permeability of capillaries and promote the contraction of capillaries, which will cause menstrual disorders after use.

2. Laxatives. For example, magnesium sulfate and sodium sulfate have a strong laxative effect and can cause reflex pelvic congestion, so their use should be prohibited during menstruation; other gastrointestinal motility drugs should also be used with caution or not at all.

3. Anticoagulants. It can cause menorrhagia and even internal bleeding and should be avoided during menstruation, such as coumarin, heparin, thrombolytics, etc.

4. Sex hormones. Women's estrogen production and metabolic balance are closely related to the menstrual cycle. Therefore, sex hormones should not be used during the menstrual period to avoid menstrual disorders.