Dampness is a traditional Chinese medicine saying, refers to the body appears to have heavy, sticky, tends to down and other characteristics of the evil, clinical manifestations of dizziness, fatigue, eating less nausea (no appetite, less food), diarrhea and other symptoms. Mostly due to climate humidity, bad habits and other factors. Pregnant women with heavy moisture in the body should ensure adequate sleep, dietary regimen, medication, etc., if necessary, timely access to medical care.
1. Ensure adequate sleep: staying up all night not only damages the body’s yin fluid, but also damages the body’s yang qi, so that the body’s water metabolism is not normal, and dampness accumulates in the body. Therefore, pregnant women with heavy dampness must ensure adequate sleep in order to ensure that the person’s qi function normally, the normal operation of water metabolism, heavy dampness can be effectively relieved.
2. Dietary regulation: pregnant women if the body heavy dampness, the first thing to try to avoid eating spicy and greasy products, so as not to aggravate the burden on the spleen and stomach. It is recommended to eat a light diet, such as red beans, lotus seeds, silver fungus and other foods.
3. Medication: patients with heavy dampness due to deficiency of spleen and stomach qi can take Ginseng and Atractylodes Macrocephalae, and those with heavy dampness due to dampness-heat can take Gentian Liver Disease Soup. The adverse reactions and contraindications of Ginseng and Atractylodes Macrocephalae are not clear, and Gentian and Liver Dispelling Soup should be used with caution in the cases of deficiency of spleen and stomach and deficiency of yin and hyperactivity of yang.
Because pregnant women are special people, medication and dietary taboos are different from normal people, if the dampness is serious, you should consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor to standardize the treatment, do not take care of yourself, so as not to cause harm to the body.