Can women take a bath every day during early pregnancy?

Being pregnant for ten months is a particularly difficult thing for many women, because during this process, many women will encounter different difficulties, and the early pregnancy is one of the difficulties. So can I take a bath every day during early pregnancy? In fact, the answer to this question is different, because everyone's physical condition is different. So some women in early pregnancy can take a bath every day, while some women in early pregnancy cannot. Next, let us find out together whether it is possible to take a bath every day in early pregnancy? What are the reasons?

After a woman becomes pregnant, with the changes in her endocrine system, her metabolism increases, and her sweat glands and sebaceous glands secrete more vigorously, she needs to take a bath more often than ordinary people to keep her skin clean and prevent skin infections and urinary tract infections. However, if you do not pay attention to the method when bathing, it may affect the health of you and your baby.

When pregnant women take a bath, they should first pay attention to the water temperature, which should not be too high. Modern medical research has found that excessively high temperature can cause a certain degree of damage to the fetus's central nervous system. It has been measured that when the body temperature of a pregnant woman is 1.5 degrees higher than normal, the brain cells of the fetus may stop developing; if it rises by 3 degrees, the brain cells may be killed, and the brain cell damage caused by this is mostly irreversible and permanent damage, resulting in intellectual disabilities in the fetus. In severe cases, small eyeballs, cleft lip, external ear deformities, etc. may occur, and it may also cause epileptic seizures. What is more noteworthy is that the higher the water temperature and the longer the duration, the more serious the damage will be. Therefore, the temperature of the bath water for pregnant women should be adjusted to below 39 degrees. They should avoid going to the bathhouse to take a warm water pool or tub bath as much as possible to prevent the abdomen from being immersed in water.

Secondly, pregnant women should also pay attention to the way they bathe. It is recommended to shower while standing and avoid taking a bath while sitting in a basin. This is because women's endocrine system undergoes many changes after pregnancy, which reduces the acidic secretions in the vagina that can kill bacteria and reduces the natural defense ability. If you take a sitting bath, the bacteria and viruses in the dirty water may enter the vagina and uterus, causing vaginitis, salpingitis, or urinary tract infection, causing pregnant women to have chills, high fever, abdominal pain, etc., and increases the chance of taking medicine, which is more likely to cause malformations and premature births.

Thirdly, the bathing time should not be too long, especially in winter. In the bathroom or bathtub, the air is reduced, the temperature and humidity are high, and the oxygen supply is insufficient. In addition, taking a hot bath will cause the blood vessels on the surface of the whole body to dilate, which will lead to insufficient blood supply to the head of pregnant women, dizziness, blurred vision, fatigue, etc. At the same time, it will cause fetal hypoxia and fetal heart rate acceleration, which may also affect the development of the fetal nervous system. Therefore, it is advisable for pregnant women to take a hot water bath for no more than 20 minutes.

The above answers the question of whether you can take a bath every day in the early stages of pregnancy. This is because many women who have just given birth are in good health and have not fully recovered their physical fitness and are very weak. Therefore, they should be protected from all aspects and should not be taken lightly. At the same time, for women who have just given birth, if they do not take a bath for a long time, they will feel uncomfortable all over their body. Therefore, if you want to take a bath every day, you must take the correct method to solve it and not do it blindly, which will bring bad consequences.