Catching a cold during confinement? This care heals quickly!

After experiencing ten months of pregnancy and the difficult process of childbirth, women’s bodies are at their weakest and their resistance decreases. Therefore, it is very common to catch a cold during the confinement period. However, since babies need breastfeeding, mothers with colds should not take medicine easily, because some medicines may cause certain harm to the baby’s future growth. Therefore, family care and diet therapy become particularly important, especially glutinous rice and scallion porridge, pear, date and egg soup, cabbage and radish soup, ginger and brown sugar tea, snow pear stew, and ginger sugar drink. They have significant effects in treating maternal colds and will not harm the body, so maternal women can consume them with confidence.

1. What should I do if I catch a cold during the confinement period?

1. Home Care

After a mother catches a cold, she needs to replenish sufficient water, drink more boiled water, rock sugar pear water, and juice; the diet should be light and easy to digest, and must not be too greasy or spicy; if necessary, you can take Chinese patent medicine under the guidance of a doctor; if you have a fever, you must lie in bed to rest and use physical cooling methods in time; if you continue to have a high fever, and have symptoms such as a more severe cough and difficulty breathing, you must go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.

2. Diet therapy

(1) Glutinous rice and scallion porridge: Prepare 100 grams of glutinous rice, wash it, pour it into a pot, add water and cook it together; when the porridge is almost cooked, add a few scallions and cook until done.

(2) Pear, Date and Egg Soup: First prepare a pear, wash it and cut it into small pieces. Put appropriate amount of red dates, ginger, rock sugar and pear into a pot, add water and boil. After boiling, beat an egg into the pot. Eat once in the morning and evening, and then go to rest after eating.

(3) Cabbage and Radish Soup: Prepare 250 grams of cabbage heart and 60 grams of white radish and clean them. Put all ingredients into a pot and add appropriate amount of water to boil. After boiling, add brown sugar (about 15 grams), then eat the vegetables and drink the soup while it is hot.

(4) Ginger and brown sugar tea: Prepare 10 grams of ginger and orange peel, then wash and cut into thin strips; put the ingredients together in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and boil until half a bowl of water is left. You can also add appropriate amount of brown sugar when eating and drink it while it is hot. Covering yourself with a blanket and sleeping after eating can help reduce fever and relieve headaches.

(5) Snow pear stew: Wash the snow pear and cut it into small pieces with the skin on. Put the ingredients and rock sugar into a casserole or steam it in a clay pot over water. Can treat fever and cough.

(6) Ginger and Sugar Drink: Prepare 15 grams of sliced ​​ginger and three 3-centimeter-long pieces of green onion. Add 50 grams of water and bring to a boil in a pot, then add brown sugar.

3. New mothers should pay attention to treating colds

The most basic way to treat a cold is to induce sweating, but after giving birth, the body is deficient in qi and blood, so sweating should be prevented, and defecation and urination are prohibited.

Second, the following points should be noted when treating colds after childbirth:

(1) If you have a fever after catching a cold and cannot sweat, you can use medicines such as Schizonepeta and Saposhnikovia divaricata. Do not use medicines with warm properties such as Ephedra and Cinnamomum cassia.

(2) After catching a cold and having a fever, you should only let your body feel cool. Do not use bitter and cold medicines, such as Gardenia, Scutellaria, etc., as these may harm your spleen and stomach and also affect your breast milk.

(3) If the Qi and blood are insufficient, and the patient is dizzy, has a sallow complexion, a pale tongue, and a weak pulse, then blood-enriching drugs such as angelica can be added to the medication (follow the doctor's advice).

Note: If you need to breastfeed your child, you must avoid videos that may contain toxic substances, otherwise it will affect the child's growth and development.