Most pregnant women can’t escape the “fate” of cold and cough because of the rainy spring and the high and low temperature changes. However, when a pregnant woman has a severe cold and cough, she must be treated with medication, so she can’t be capricious. The key to cough classification is to identify and prescribe the right medicine. There are three types of cold and cough: hot cough, cold cough and phlegm-damp cough. A simple way to identify the type of cough is to ask whether it is a daytime or a nighttime cough, as most daytime coughs are hot coughs, while most nighttime coughs are cold coughs; secondly, ask about the color of the sputum, as yellow sputum is mostly hot coughs, while white sputum is mostly cold coughs; thirdly, ask about the nature of the sputum, as thick sputum that is difficult to cough up is dry coughs, while thin sputum is mostly phlegm-damp coughs. Causes of coughing 1. First of all, consider that it is related to the surrounding air pollution Now every city is doing new planning, which consequently causes many cities to have more serious environmental pollution. Since pregnant women are more sensitive to their surroundings, plus their own resistance is weaker during pregnancy, if they stay in a space with serious environmental pollution for a long time, it is easy to cause respiratory infections, bronchitis, etc., resulting in coughing. 2, cold is also an important cause of cough Treatment of cough as far as possible without drugs If the cold and cough of pregnant women is not too serious, try to avoid taking drugs, because the baby is not good. After pregnancy, pregnant women have certain changes in their body enzymes, which have certain effects on the metabolic process of certain drugs. Drugs are not easy to detoxify and excrete, there can be accumulative poisoning, and in early pregnancy when the fetal organs are formed, drugs have a certain effect on the fetus, so it is best not to take medicine for colds. Most of the anti-cold drugs are compound preparations, containing a variety of ingredients In life, we go to the pharmacy or in the hospital, we will see a lot of often seen cold medicine such as cold capsule, cold pass, Contec, white plus black, Compeed, gram feeling Kang, fast gram and so on, most of these drugs contain histamines, pregnancy is not recommended to take, especially before the fourth week of pregnancy, cold medicine is mainly allopathic drugs, treating the symptoms but not the root cause, and not safe for pregnant women. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant women should not use anti-cold medication. What should pregnant women do if they have a cold and cough? 1.When the throat is itchy and sore at the beginning of a cold, immediately gargle with thick salt water once every 10 minutes for about 10 times. 2.Drinking chicken soup can reduce the symptoms of nasal congestion and runny nose when you have a cold, and it has a better effect on clearing the respiratory virus. Add some pepper, ginger and other seasonings in chicken soup, or eat under the noodles, can cure the cold. 3, in the insulation tea cup poured into about 42 ℃ hot water, suffering from a cold will be placed in the mouth, nose into the mouth of the tea cup, constantly inhaling hot steam, three times a day. 4, pregnant women cough, you can beat an egg, add a small amount of sugar and ginger juice, with half a cup of boiling water, 2-3 times to stop the cough. 5.For those who have a high fever, in addition to general treatment, the temperature should be controlled as soon as possible, using physical cooling methods, such as forehead and neck ice, or choose to use drugs to lower the temperature. 6.If it is a common cold, the safest and easiest way for the mother-to-be is to recuperate at home, drink more water, ensure nutritional supplements, adjust the body to improve immunity, until the cold is cured. If the cold and fever are more serious, you should still send to the doctor in time to deal with it, and never use your own medicine at home. Cough diet 1, ice sugar pear stew: fresh pear peel, cut open and remove the core, add the right amount of ice sugar, put in a pot with water to steam soft. 2, baked orange: use chopsticks to punch a hole in the center of the bottom of the orange, stuff some salt, wrap it with aluminum platinum paper and bake it in the oven for 15-20 minutes, then peel off the orange peel and eat it while it is hot. Or the orange peel dried into the peel, add water decoction tea, gulp down, quite a strange effect. 3, Chuanbei stewed pear: with peeled and cored fresh pear with Chuanbei powder 2 money, put in a pot with water to steam soft, eat while hot. 4, white radish syrup: white radish cut into 1 cm large dice, put into a dry, clean container, filled with honey, cover tightly, maceration for about 3 days will ooze water mixed with honey, put in the refrigerator; each scoop out a little with warm water to drink, cough effect is very good. If you want to drink it temporarily and don’t have time to macerate it, grate the white radish, add 1/3 amount of honey and mix it well, then add warm water to drink. 5, sugar boiled kumquat: wash the kumquat, poke two or three holes with a toothpick, add water to submerge and boil, add rock sugar, simmer over low heat, and serve while hot. Did not drink the cooled, stored in the refrigerator for safekeeping, each time scoop some warm consumption. 6, do not eat candy cookies and other sweets: those cold, dry, and easy to fire food, such as peanuts, melon seeds, fried things should also be prohibited. 7, drink more warm water: warm water in the mouth also has a very good cough effect. The above cough food therapy several times a day, for pregnant women, the general population (including adults, children) are effective, may wish to try.