What to do when a pregnant woman has a cold and cough

Cold and cough in pregnant women may be caused by respiratory infections, and general or symptomatic treatment should be given according to the severity. 1. General treatment. Pregnant women with a cold and cough if the symptoms are not serious can drink a lot of water, drink rock sugar stewed pear water, moderate eating pear, grapefruit and other juicy food to ease the symptoms, light diet. Generally about a week of cold and cough symptoms will improve on their own. 2. Symptomatic treatment. If the symptoms of cold and cough are more serious, you need to go to the hospital in time, under the guidance of the doctor to take the blue root granules, fresh bamboo lee oral solution, pudilan oral solution and other medication, can effectively relieve the symptoms, if the cough and phlegm caused by respiratory distress, chest tightness, breathlessness and other symptoms can also be used to nebulize inhalation therapy. Pregnant women with cold and cough symptoms, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner to identify the cause of the disease under the guidance of the doctor for targeted treatment.