Belly itchy at 5 months pregnant

Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the belly begins to bulge slowly. At this time, you can clearly see the baby in the belly. However, there is one issue that needs to be paid attention to during pregnancy. During pregnancy, the body's resistance may become very low, causing symptoms of belly itching. In addition to wearing appropriate clothes, you should also pay attention to skin care.

Treatment

Drug relief

In addition, you can also try non-drug methods to prevent or reduce mild skin itching:

Avoid sweating and wipe off sweat as soon as possible.

Wear loose and comfortable clothes, and try to wear cotton clothes that absorb sweat.

Some people like to scald the affected area with hot water. This practice is not only unhelpful, but may also aggravate the condition and should be prohibited.

·Try to avoid using chemicals such as disinfectants or soaps that irritate or dry out the skin.

Avoid scratching vigorously with your fingernails to avoid scratching the skin and causing infection.

You can use the American tummy honey body moisturizer for pregnant women, which contains an anti-itching formula to treat itchy skin on the body.

For the itchy belly caused by cholestasis, counting the fetal movements can prevent cholestasis. Learning to count fetal movements correctly can help you detect abnormal fetal movements and seek medical attention immediately when the fetus suffers from intrauterine hypoxia. In the absence of any treatment, the itching symptoms caused by cholestasis of pregnancy usually continue until delivery, so if the itching persists for more than 3 days and still does not disappear, you must go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis.

Winter treatment

If pregnant women feel itchy skin in winter, they should pay attention to adjusting the humidity of the surrounding environment. For example, they can put a humidifier or green plants, fish tanks, etc. at home to adjust the humidity of the surrounding environment, or eat some Chinese medicine diet therapy with itching and moisturizing effect under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, which may have a certain effect.

In terms of food adjustment, you can increase the intake of some nuts and pig's trotters. Especially in the late pregnancy, due to the excessive expansion of the skin, stretch marks similar to earthworms appear. The rupture of the skin's elastic fibers will cause pregnant women to feel itchy. Once itching occurs, pregnant women will scratch it with their hands, and even a small number of papules may appear. In order to avoid any impact on the fetus, seek treatment from a Chinese medicine practitioner as soon as possible.

Pregnant women should not clean their skin too frequently in winter, and should not scrub their skin too often with bath towels or towels. Also, don't use too much cleanser, because most skin and hair cleansers are alkaline. However, human skin requires a slightly acidic environment. If alkaline cleansers are used, it will cause itching. Once itching occurs, do not use too high a temperature when bathing, because the itching will become more severe if the water temperature is too high.