What to do if you catch a cold or fever while preparing for pregnancy

Colds are a disease that we often get, and there are many reasons for the disease. After catching a cold, we must pay attention to timely treatment or conditioning, especially for women who are preparing for pregnancy. We must pay more attention and care. After a cold occurs, it is most appropriate for women who are preparing for pregnancy to adjust their lifestyle and diet, especially if it is not too serious. What should I do if I catch a cold and have a fever while preparing for pregnancy?

A cold is a viral infection. Catching a cold during pregnancy preparation is a sign of low immunity due to poor preparation for pregnancy. This will have a certain impact on the pregnancy preparation period, but not significantly. If you have a runny nose due to a cold during pregnancy preparation, you should drink more hot boiled water and rest more to help the cold symptoms subside. You can also use ginger and brown sugar to make some hot soup, and then pay attention to a lighter diet. It is also important to keep warm.

It is recommended not to use medication to treat colds during the pregnancy preparation period. Medication treatment still has certain side effects, especially Western medicine has a great impact on the body. If the cold is really serious, with cough, sputum, fever, etc., it is recommended that you go to the hospital for a blood HCG test ten days after sexual intercourse, which can preliminarily determine whether you are pregnant. If you are not pregnant, the main treatment is for the cold. Then, under the guidance of a doctor, choose some Chinese patent medicines with small side effects to prolong the time of conception.

During the pregnancy preparation period, in order to prevent colds, you should pay attention to improving your resistance, diversify your diet, exercise more, eat more foods that can improve your resistance, such as carrots, white fungus, yam, pumpkin, etc., drink more boiled water, and pay attention to sleep.

Pregnancy cold diet remedies:

1. A disease caused by external pathogens, with fever, chills, headache and body pain, nasal congestion, runny nose, itchy throat and cough as the main symptoms. 500 grams of cabbage heart, cut into small pieces, 120 grams of white radish, cut into thin slices, add 800 ml of water, boil until 400 ml, then add appropriate amount of brown sugar. 200 ml each time, 2 times a day

2. Mash the raw mung beans and put them in a bowl for later use. Boil a bowl of water with ginger slices and brown sugar. After a few minutes, pour the water into the bowl of crushed mung beans. Drink two bowls of this soup every day, it is effective for common colds. The above is an introduction on what to do if you catch a cold and fever while preparing for pregnancy. Generally, you should drink more water after catching a cold. In addition, if the fever is severe, you must reduce the temperature in time, mainly through physical cooling methods. At the same time, you should also pay attention to rest. During the period of cold and fever, you should eat more light food, and avoid spicy and irritating food.