Pregnant woman accidentally applied Fengyoujing

Cooling oil has become a common household medicine today. With the approach of summer, mosquitoes begin to swarm. Due to the peculiarity of the pregnancy system, women are more susceptible to mosquito bites. In addition, pregnant women may experience nausea and dizziness. So some friends want to know, can pregnant women apply cooling oil? This matter will be explained below.

The main ingredients of cooling oil include mothballs, menthol, eucalyptus oil, camphor and clove oil. All medicines containing camphor are harmful to pregnant women. Because the human body contains a substance called glucose sulfate dehydrogenase, after camphor balls enter the body, they can only combine with this substance to become non-toxic substances and then be excreted from the body, avoiding harm to health. However, because pregnant women are in a special physiological state at this time, the content of glucose sulfate dehydrogenase in the body is very small, so it is not possible to fully metabolize and excrete camphor balls out of the body. After camphor balls are absorbed into the pregnant woman's body through the skin, they will also pass through the placental barrier, enter the amniotic cavity and act on the fetus, directly harming the health of the fetus. In severe cases, they may also cause serious harm such as fetal malformation, fetal death or miscarriage. In addition, other ingredients in the cooling oil, such as camphor, may also irritate pregnant women and cause premature birth.

Similarly, breastfeeding women and babies are not suitable for using medicated oils such as cooling oil. Since the menthol in the medicinal oil can reduce the milk secretion of pregnant women and make their milk have a certain irritation, it is not suitable for babies to consume. In addition, mothballs can penetrate into the blood through the baby's skin, causing damage to blood cells, easily causing jaundice, convulsions and other symptoms in babies, and causing damage to the baby's brain function.

The effect of cooling oil is obvious, but because of its special ingredients, it is not suitable for pregnant women. In order for the normal growth and development of the fetus, pregnant mothers should take into account all aspects of life. It is a well-known truth that medicine is three-part poison. Some things with medicinal ingredients should be avoided as much as possible, whether orally or externally.