What should I do if I have chronic pharyngitis during pregnancy?

Spring is the season when pharyngitis is prone to occur. Generally, a slight cold will cause throat discomfort, which will lead to the onset of chronic pharyngitis. Pharyngitis is very uncomfortable for pregnant women. They want to cough but dare not cough, for fear that using too much force will affect the baby in the belly. If pregnant women want to use medication to treat pharyngitis, it is best to take the medicine under the guidance of a doctor and not take medicine indiscriminately. So what should I do if I have chronic pharyngitis during pregnancy?

What to do if pregnant women have chronic pharyngitis

1. Pregnant women should maintain a happy mood whether they are sick or healthy. This not only enhances immunity, but is also good for the baby's health. Pregnant women should be happy every day, maintain a happy mood, and smile more.

2. When you are very angry, very upset, nervous, or sad, your body will secrete a hormone that will reduce your resistance. According to surveys, when you quarrel, are very angry, nervous or sad, your body produces a large amount of this hormone, which causes 80% of your immune cells to automatically rupture and disappear, thereby reducing your immune capacity by 80%.

3. The immune system grows rapidly. When you restore your happy and cheerful mood, your immunity will recover after three hours. If you like to get angry, the longer you are angry, the longer your immune system will be reduced. When a person is angry, it is easy to catch a cold, and it is not easy to recover. If a pregnant woman is often in a depressed mood, it will have a great impact on the baby in her belly.

4. Nutritional regulation and enhancing immunity are key for pregnant women after suffering from chronic pharyngitis. 1. Normal eating habits. Normal eating habits are a combination of meat and vegetables. You should eat more vegetables. You cannot eat only meat without vegetables. This way, the immune system of pregnant women can be greatly improved. 2. Nutrition means there must be many types. The more types, the better it is for your immune system, because nutrition must be rich in antioxidants, phytonutrients, and polysaccharides. Therefore, pregnant women must have at least 5 types of vegetables and fruits. The more types and colors, the better it is for the immune system. 3. Pregnant women should get more rest and do proper exercise to enhance their immunity. Because pregnant women should not exercise too aggressively, it is recommended that they get more rest and do appropriate exercise. That is to say, pregnant women must get enough sleep when they go to bed at night, and go for a walk outdoors more often when the weather is fine, especially in parks with green flowers and plants, to breathe fresh air. This will not only benefit the blood circulation of pregnant women but also improve immunity, allowing the baby to grow up healthily. In addition, if the condition of chronic pharyngitis in pregnant women continues to worsen, they should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time. So, how to treat chronic pharyngitis? Experts from Wuhan Ren'an Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital pointed out that in the treatment of chronic pharyngitis, the type should be distinguished first and then symptomatic treatment should be given. Chronic pharyngitis can be divided into chronic simple pharyngitis, chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis, lymphoid follicular type, etc. Cases like the one above basically belong to lymphofollicular pharyngitis, which is mostly related to long-term exposure to dust and lymphofollicular hyperplasia.

How to treat pharyngitis during pregnancy

1. Drinking salt water is very effective in relieving pharyngitis. You can drink some light salt water to clear your throat when you get up early.

2. Drink more water. In addition to boiled water, you can also drink some medicinal teas such as Sterculia lychnophora, Honeysuckle, Ophiopogon japonicus, and Monk Fruit. It can effectively relieve throat discomfort. It is also good to drink the water boiled with white radish. Honeysuckle is also a good choice.

3. Eat more vegetables and fruits. In addition, you can also drink some fresh juices often, such as raw radish and fresh lotus root, which you can squeeze into juice and drink often.

4. If swallowing is really uncomfortable and you have no appetite, you can drink some porridge often, such as vegetable leaf porridge, barley porridge, century egg and lean meat porridge, which have the effect of moistening the lungs and reducing fire.

5. You can take roxithromycin, fresh bamboo sap oral liquid for treatment, and make monk fruit tea. 1 monk fruit. Chop the monk fruit into pieces, brew it with boiling water for 10 minutes, and drink it at any time. Take 1 to 2 times a day, 1 piece each time. Maintain appropriate indoor temperature and humidity, fresh air, adjust your diet, eat light and easy-to-digest food, and supplement with some refreshing, heat-removing, tender and juicy foods. Such as oranges, tangerines, pineapples, sugar cane, olives, pears, apples, etc., or drink more water and cool drinks, but the drinks should not be too strong.

6. Boil rock sugar and red dates in water and drink it; preparation method: cut the pear into cubes, boil it with red dates first, then add rock sugar and continue to cook. Pears can clear the lungs, while red dates can promote the growth of hemoglobin.

7. When a pregnant woman is found to have a mild cough, she can drink honey with cold boiled water, which can moisturize the throat and relieve cough symptoms.