What to do if you’re pregnant and have a bad cough

Pregnant coughing cough may be cold, pneumonia, heart failure and other diseases, need to take cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-heart failure drugs under the guidance of the doctor. 1. Colds are serious if severe cough, headache, body aches, fatigue, etc., due to severe coughing during pregnancy can make the abdominal pressure rises, conduction to the pelvis will cause fetal asphyxia or even miscarriage, so the need for symptomatic treatment, cold and flu remedies, such as Banlangen, aminophenol huangnamin granules, etc., but also stew some rock candy pear soup to moisten the lungs and stop coughing. 2. If the upper respiratory tract infection, such as, for example, pneumonia, there will also be a violent cough, accompanied by fever, pus sputum, yellow sputum symptoms, white blood cells abnormally high, according to the results of sputum culture to choose the antibacterial drugs with little side effects, such as penicillin, cephalosporins. 3. Heart failure is mainly caused by increased blood volume, if it is a paroxysmal dyspnea at night, it will be accompanied by coughing, mostly occurring at night after 1 to 2 hours of sleep, pregnant women will be forced to sit because of the dyspnea, severe episodes can be sustained, severe coughing, and even pink foamy sputum, the need for anti-failure treatment, you can use some diuretics such as furosemide, andropanolone, etc.. In addition, the specific use of the above drugs needs to be under the supervision of a doctor.