Treatment of the throat during pregnancy

All women expecting the birth of their long-awaited child, try to protect themselves and monitor their health. Nevertheless, sometimes a cold catches up, and a great discomfort to a future mother causes a sore throat.

The problem is that a pregnant woman should not take many medications, a throat treatment during pregnancy should be safe. It is necessary to pay attention to sparing folk remedies, which can help no less than medications.

First, we should remind you of the prevention of colds and viral diseases. First of all, women in the situation should avoid crowded places, travel in public transport, especially in the period of cold weather or epidemics.

But summer heat is not less dangerous. In the warm season, do not abuse cold drinks and ice cream, and also long to swim in the river or in the sea.

If a woman still falls ill, treatment of the throat during pregnancy should begin with folk recipes. However, this process can be delayed. Treatment of the throat during pregnancy with natural remedies can not give such a rapid effect, as, for example, antibiotics, but their use in this period is strictly prohibited.

Treatment of the throat during pregnancy with folk remedies

Below are the most effective ways to fight with a throat infection that can safely be used by future mothers:

• Perhaps the most famous antibacterial herbal remedy is chamomile. Now you can buy this product in filter bags, which you need to brew 100 ml of boiling water, insist a couple of hours, then dilute with water to two hundred ml and conduct the rinsing procedure every hour;

• Before going to bed, you can take a sage with milk. Treatment of the throat during pregnancy with this remedy is very effective. A tablespoon of this herb should be filled with 200 ml of milk, boil, put on a slow fire and hold for a few more minutes. Then you need to cool to a pleasant temperature, strain and drink in small sips;

• dogrose helps not only to get rid of the pain in the throat, but also saturates the body with vitamin C, which is important for its overall strengthening, and especially in the period of waiting for the baby. In the broth of dogrose add a spoonful of honey and 50 grams of lemon juice. Drink hot instead of tea;

• often treatment of the throat during pregnancy is carried out with the help of special candies. A good alternative to them will be a cut leaf of aloe, which you need to hold in your mouth;

• this rinse bag is also very effective: you need to take St. John's wort, leaves and flowers of raspberries, horsetail field, lime blossom, dog rose in equal proportions. For one serving, half a glass of the mixture is poured into one glass of boiling water. Insist for several hours and rinse the throat;

• Treatment of the throat in pregnant women can be carried out using the following recipe: birch leaves, sage, eucalyptus should be taken in the proportion 1: 3: 2. A tablespoon of this mixture should be poured with boiling water (1 st). Insist 20 minutes, then strain and rinse the sore throat;

• every two hours you can gargle with beet and onion juice. They need to be mixed in equal proportions and to dilute 100 grams of the mixture with the same amount of boiled warm water.

Pregnant with a sore throat should rest more, and ideally, to comply with bed rest. In no case can not bear the disease "on its feet" - so the body can much faster cope with the disease.

You should drink plenty of fluids, especially if the temperature rises.

A woman needs to consume more vitamin C and do not give up eating. Food should not be heavy, but necessarily nutritious.

If folk methods do not help, do not pull, you should contact your doctor who will prescribe the treatment taking into account the position of the woman.