What to do if you have heartburn in early pregnancy

Generally speaking, most women tend to eat a lot of nutritious foods after they find out they are pregnant. Some women basically eat whatever is nutritious. Pregnant women themselves have very little activity, so it is easy to cause indigestion. Heartburn in early pregnancy is a common symptom. So what should you do if you have heartburn in early pregnancy?

What to do if pregnant women have heartburn

1. Avoid overeating, because the more stomach contents there are, the easier it is for them to reflux into the esophagus.

2. Do not eat two hours before going to bed and avoid lying in bed within 1 hour after a meal to prevent stomach contents from refluxing into the esophagus as the body position changes.

3. Expectant mothers should not smoke, because smoking will accelerate the secretion of gastric acid and will also have adverse effects on the baby's development.

4. Do not exercise within two hours after a meal, because exercising shortly after a meal may aggravate heartburn.

5. Get close to "stomach-nourishing" diet: Milk can protect the gastric mucosa and is an ideal drink for expectant mothers, but be careful not to drink milk on an empty stomach to prevent gastrointestinal bloating. Eat some starchy foods first, such as biscuits, steamed buns, etc.; pasta has a better stomach-nourishing effect, so you can change rice into pasta; jujube, tofu, cabbage, carrots, yam, lotus seeds, etc. are all spleen and stomach-nourishing foods, so you can eat more of them appropriately; drink a small glass of water after a meal to dilute and flush away the stomach acid that refluxes to the esophagus and relieve heartburn.

6. Stay away from "stomach-damaging" foods: The caffeine in tea and coffee can relax the esophageal sphincter and aggravate the reflux of gastric acid, so they should be avoided; high-fat foods are difficult to digest and tend to stay in the stomach for a long time, increasing the possibility of reflux of gastric contents, so they should be eaten less; alcohol has a greater irritation to the gastric mucosa and can aggravate the damage to the gastric mucosa, and alcohol can affect the normal development of the baby, so expectant mothers should never drink alcohol; chili, pepper, and mustard are all highly irritating foods, so expectant mothers are advised to say goodbye to them temporarily; carbonated drinks can cause abdominal distension and promote gastric acid reflux, so expectant mothers should drink less.

What to eat when pregnant women have heartburn

1. Ginger water, you can also use tangerine peel to rinse water

2. Carrots are alkaline foods that have a neutralizing effect

3. Cooked peanuts, which are high in protein and fat

4. Drink some baking soda water

5. Take some antacids

6. Pregnancy reaction may cause excessive stomach acid. If this affects your appetite, you can eat some cornmeal porridge. This type of coarse grain alkaline food can not only relieve stomach acid, but also strengthen the body and supplement a variety of vitamins and minerals. However, due to different individual constitutions, a small number of people may secrete more gastric acid after eating cornmeal porridge. Please eat it first and then continue according to your own reaction.

7. As the first choice of alkaline food, yam is also a good choice for pregnant women with excessive stomach acid. Eating yam not only supplements nutrition for pregnant women and fetuses, but also has therapeutic effects such as strengthening the spleen and lungs. The most common way to eat yam is to cook it into yam porridge: wash and slice the yam, wash and clean the rice, and cook them together into porridge until they are soft. Because sugar can cause gastric acid secretion, so don't put sugar in porridge.