Of course, one can not be treated independently, using medicines without any control. No matter how expensive and famous medicines and pills for coughing you did not occur to drink, nevertheless, during pregnancy it is better to seek advice from a doctor. If you suddenly feel unwell, you have fever, you started to cough or sneeze, immediately contact a doctor, otherwise you will put your pregnancy at risk.
During the first trimester of pregnancy, whatever medicines and their administration are highly undesirable. That is why the early pregnancy requires cough treatment only safe for the future mother and her baby means and methods. The safest method is the treatment of cough folk remedies during pregnancy.
You ask: how to get rid of a cough, using only recipes of traditional medicine? And everything is simple. Do not be lazy. It is necessary to purposely and regularly clean up your own throat, and with the folk remedies known to us from the very childhood. This is rinsing and inhalation.
Perfectly can help with the treatment of cough during pregnancy and various types of phyto-tea. They are safe and useful as well as various natural grasses. Below we will discuss in more detail the methods of cough treatment in such a difficult period as pregnancy, and give the simplest and safest recipes for eliminating the unpleasant symptoms of a cold.
First you need to tell about the cough and its nature. When pregnancy coughing, and even with the separation of sputum - unpleasant signals, notifying that the body is infected. As already mentioned, pregnant women who have a cough should consult a doctor who will determine the cause of this condition and will monitor the course of the disease and recovery. He will establish: a dry cough or wet, whether it is spastic, when and how it occurs, etc.
If during the cough sputum is being evacuated, it is called productive or wet, and if there is no phlegm, then it is unproductive or dry. Unproductive cough accompanies, as a rule, infections of the upper respiratory system. But it can have an allergic nature. When a dry cough turns into a wet cough, then soon it is worth waiting for a recovery, because this is a clear sign of improvement in the condition of a pregnant woman.
Cough during pregnancy: what's the danger?
He is dangerous because he during pregnancy can go to a chronic stage, which will later require the use of strong medicines, which will jeopardize your health and the health of your unborn baby. That is why the treatment procedures must be timely appointed by the doctor and conducted in full compliance with the recommendations. If you have a severe cough, then it is very dangerous with a low level of placentation (placenta previa), because as the coughing muscles tend to strain and bleeding may suddenly occur.
And now a few words about the methods used by folk medicine for cough treatment at home during pregnancy.
1. Rinse using decoctions, soda mixture.
For rinsing you can use decoctions of chamomile, sage, mother-and-stepmother, St. John's wort. These herbs can be used both separately and combined with each other. A soda mixture for rinsing is prepared as follows: a teaspoon of drinking soda is diluted with water (warm) and a couple of droplets of iodine are dripped. If you are experiencing an individual intolerance of any components, or you may have an allergy, then this cough treatment is contraindicated for you.
2. Inhalations.
Unproductive (dry) cough during pregnancy will help to facilitate inhalation with vapors from decoctions of sage, plantain, linden color, triple leaf watch, chamomile. After a couple of days, when the dry cough goes into the wet cough and sputum is released, other herbs can be used. Wet cough during pregnancy can be treated with inhalations of decoctions of herb tea, yarrow, cowberry, eucalyptus leaf and string. But inhalation for a couple can be done only if your temperature is normal and not increased.
3. Syrups and herbal teas.
A wonderful expectorant and antitussive remedy - tea from blackcurrant leaves, mother-and-stepmother and plantain. When pregnant, you can drink onion syrup, as well as syrups, which doctors recommend for children. Pharmacy drugs, such as Doctor MOM and Gedelix, can be safely attributed to the means allowed to eliminate cough from future mothers.