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How and how to treat influenza in pregnant women?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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How and how to treat the flu if a pregnant woman gets it? After pregnancy, you can not drink all the pills, and not all injections can be done so as not to harm the future child. In addition, with the flu in pregnant women there is a greater threat of miscarriage. How, then, to fight the flu?
[Treatment of influenza in pregnant women
If the form of the flu is not very severe, the doctor prescribes home treatment. It is less stress for a pregnant woman, in the usual domestic conditions, she can lie down and drink the necessary medications, and rinse her throat and read her favorite book.
It is important that the room in which the pregnant woman lies is every day ventilated and in it washed the floor with disinfectants, as well as door handles and furniture. The dishes of the pregnant, sick with the flu, you need to rinse with boiling water after every meal.
How to eat pregnant during influenza?
During the flu, the body of a pregnant woman loses a lot of strength and requires twice as many vitamins to restore them. Therefore, the food should be saturated with a maximum of vegetables and fruits. It is advisable that the diet of pregnant women is dominated by milk and carbohydrate food, but the salt was less. Sour cream, cottage cheese, cheese, milk is a very good food during influenza, supporting the body. But what about those who do not like milk? There are vegetables and fruits - they have all the necessary substances that will support and strengthen the immune system.
During the flu you need more warm drink, but not only teas and decoctions of medicinal plants (sage, linden, rosehip, rich in vitamins). It is also important to drink freshly squeezed juices, compotes, fruit drinks, mineral water without gas. These drinks will help to remove toxins from the body, which is oversaturated by them due to the activity of influenza viruses.
How to treat a pregnant woman at high temperature?
If the future mother has a temperature above 38 degrees, which is accompanied by headaches and muscle pains, you need to give her a drink of paracetamol or medicines with him in the composition. But, as well as any antipyretic, it is not necessary to abuse it.
Paracetamol, like any other means that reduce fever, is taken no more often 2 times a day with a break from 4 to 6 hours. The maximum possible to take antipyretic up to 4 times a day, that is admissible 2 tablets in the afternoon and two - at night.
At a temperature below 38.5 antipyretic should not be taken - high temperature contributes to the rapid death of viruses.
Homemade gargles for pregnant women
To reduce heat and get rid of viruses as quickly as possible, you often need to gargle - with acute inflammatory process at least 1 time per hour. To do this, use a solution of furacillin. He is bought in the pharmacy ready or prepared by himself, diluting 0.5 cup of this solution and the same amount of water. There is another option: 800 ml of warm water and 4 tablets of furacillin, which need to be diluted in it. To tablets are well dissolved, they can first pour a small amount of boiling water, and then add the rest of the water.
It is very good to gargle with soda and salt (you can take iodized salt or sea salt). Dilute them in a ratio of 1 teaspoon of salt or soda to 1 glass of water. That the rinse effect was more significant, the nose is instilled with drops, narrowing the vessels. If a cough is added to the sore throat, the doctor will prescribe a potion for a cough. It can be a remedy with the root of an althaea, which very well helps with this kind of diseases. He is drunk 1 tablespoon four times a day for a week.
Options for rinsing from flu in pregnancy
Chamomile infusion - 1 tablespoon chamomile, filled with a glass of boiled water, boiled over low heat for 10 minutes and cooled. This infusion should be filtered and gargled every hour for 5 days
The infusion of marigold can be prepared in the same way as chamomile, and gargle with the same periodicity
Sage infusion is also very good for the destruction of various pathogens, the method of preparation is the same, only to insist it needs longer - up to half an hour.
Infusions of elderberry are very good for flu. Dried flowers can be purchased at the pharmacy. 4 tablespoons of elderberry flowers should be poured a glass of boiling water and boiled over low heat for another 10 minutes, then cooled, filtered and used as a rinse.
Can I take antibiotics for pregnant women with flu?
Influenza is a disease of a viral nature. If the causative agents of the disease were viruses, antibiotics would be useless - they only affect bacteria. Viruses live in the nucleus of cells, so antibiotics are simply unable to penetrate there.
Even if a doctor prescribes an antibiotic, his effect will be directed not at a viral infection, but on the treatment of bacterial diseases associated with influenza. It can be bronchitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, encephalitis, otitis media. Here, with these diseases, taking antibiotics pregnant makes sense. But only according to the doctor's prescription!
In order for the disease to be tolerated more easily by both mother and baby, it is necessary to work on the body with immunomodulators. These drugs will support immunity and significantly reduce the duration of the disease. But the question of taking immunomodulators should always be discussed with a doctor, since it is very controversial: what exactly should a pregnant woman take, how much and how.
When pregnant are treated for influenza in the hospital?
- A pregnant woman is taken to the hospital if she is ill, if the form of her illness is severe or hyper-heavy.
- If in a pregnant woman, the flu is complicated by other diseases associated with disorders of the nervous system, respiratory organs or other body systems
- If the pregnant woman does not have the opportunity to get a normal treatment at home
How to treat the flu in a pregnant woman - should be determined only by the attending physician. In order for the treatment to proceed correctly, you can not prescribe drugs to yourself, because you are responsible not only for your life, but also for the life of the future baby.