And if not, and you still got ARVI? Start fighting the disease!
Perhaps, before pregnancy you are accustomed to carry the disease on your feet, but now this is simply unacceptable in your situation! Think about it: your body already has a double load, and then there's a cold. There is from which to appear incredible fatigue and weakness, low blood pressure. In addition, bearing the disease on your feet, and not in bed, as expected, you run the risk of complications of pregnancy. So do not play with fire!
If you work - urgently take a sick leave, if not - postpone for the period of the disease all domestic and other cases. Now it is most important for you to lie down. Just do not ask the doctor to prescribe medicines to you as much as possible to get better soon. Do not forget that the stronger the medicine, the more side effects it can cause. In addition, they have not yet invented such drugs that would allow them to be cured at one time. In ARVI, in any case, several days must pass before the temperature drops, a cough, a runny nose, weakness and other unpleasant symptoms have gone away.
Now the most undesirable for you is the use of antibiotics. Yes, they are not needed in ARVI, since the viruses do not work. They resort to them only in the case of severe complications.
In general, as for the reception of any kind of medication - before using them, carefully read the annotation, whether it is possible to apply this medication to future mothers. Especially attentive and cautious you should be if the gestation period is up to 12 weeks. It is during this period that the baby is laid all the systems and organs, and the influence of any preparations is highly undesirable.
There are several recommendations from the category of "first aid" with the first signs of a cold.
1. As soon as you feel that you are starting to get sick, you have pershit in the throat, a runny nose starts, overcomes weakness, etc., - start frequent use of warm drinks. Best of all, if it's an infusion of twigs and raspberry leaves, tea with raspberries or lemon, milk with honey.
2. Switch to light, low-calorie food. The organism now needs to direct all forces not on digestion of food, and on struggle against an illness.
3. If the Pershit is in the throat, it becomes a little easier to suck on pieces of lemon without (!) Sugar.
4. Limit the use of salt to the maximum. It is very conducive to the appearance of edema, and they, in turn, increase the stuffiness of the nose.
5. Cut the finely garlic and onions, spread them on plates and arrange them throughout the apartment. This is not only a remedy for the common cold, it also helps to reduce the likelihood of other people in the family.
6. With pain in the throat, there is nothing better than rinsing. Best for this purpose are decoctions of eucalyptus, sage, chamomile, calendula, oak bark. Excellent solution of 1 tsp also helps. soda, 1 teaspoon salt and 1-2 drops of iodine.
7. Coughing will help inhalation with essential oils of dog rose, eucalyptus, chamomile, thyme. You can use a special inhaler, or you can just drop a couple of drops of essential oil in a pot of boiling water, bend over it, covered with a handkerchief. And inhale the healing steam.
8. To reduce the temperature, try using wet wraps. Wet the sheet of natural cloth with water at room temperature, squeeze out well. Then strip naked, wrap in this sheet and go to bed, hiding from above with a warm blanket.