What dietary remedies should pregnant women take for colds in summer?

Most pregnant women will not take medicine when they have a cold. Some will use folk remedies, while others will just take care of it. A cold may get better on its own for healthy people, but if it is not treated when the body is weak, the disease will become more serious. However, since many medicines cannot be taken after catching a cold, doctors also recommend that pregnant women use folk remedies or diet therapy to treat it. So what dietary remedies should pregnant women take for catching a cold in summer? There are many dietary remedies that pregnant women can take, as follows:

1. Apple honey water:

Prepare five apples, peel them and cut them into small pieces, add 1 liter of water, boil for 5 minutes, when it cools naturally to about 40℃, add appropriate amount of honey and stir well, drink it several times a day.

2. Shredded Ginger and Radish Soup:

Prepare 50 grams of radish and 25 grams of ginger, cut into shreds, add 500 ml of water, boil for 15 minutes, then add brown sugar, and drink while hot.

3. Onion and garlic porridge:

Prepare 10 clean scallions, which need to be chopped, 3 cloves of garlic, and 50 grams of rice, add them into porridge and drink it while it is hot.

4. Cabbage and Scallion Soup:

Chop three cabbage hearts and six green onion roots into small pieces, boil them into a bowl of soup, add brown sugar and you can drink it.

5. Chicken soup:

Prepare a hen, clean it, boil it in water, add pepper, ginger, chopped green onion, or noodles to the chicken soup, which can relieve nasal congestion and runny nose caused by colds, and increase the body's resistance energy.

Note:

If a pregnant woman has influenza, she should follow her doctor's advice to see if she needs to terminate the pregnancy to prevent the virus from harming the fetus.

If you catch a cold or fever during pregnancy, you can follow your doctor's advice and choose some Chinese herbal medicines with fewer toxic and side effects. Isatis root, isatis indigotica leaf, forsythia suspensa, notopterygium wilfordii, honeysuckle, etc., which have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying and resisting viruses, have good therapeutic effects. Chinese patent medicines and their preparations such as Yinqiao Jiedu Pills, tablets, granules, Compound Isatis Indigo Leaf Injection, Yinhuang Oral Liquid, etc. can be taken.

What dietary remedies can pregnant women take for colds in the summer? There are many dietary remedies for pregnant women after catching a cold in the summer. Whether these remedies are effective depends on the severity of the cold. When the cold does not improve after using them, it is best to go to the hospital for examination and treatment. At this time, you must follow the doctor's arrangements for treatment and not take medicine indiscriminately to avoid harming the fetus. Be prepared to prevent colds in the future to avoid catching a cold again.