What mosquito repellent can pregnant women use

In summer, the weather temperature is relatively high and there are more mosquitoes, which is very distressing for pregnant women because they don’t know what to do to repel mosquitoes. They are afraid that some mosquito repellents contain toxic substances and will have adverse effects on the health of the fetus. At this time, try not to use some mosquito repellents. You can use some environmentally friendly, pollution-free, non-toxic and side-effect-free methods, which can also achieve the effect of repelling mosquitoes.

Can pregnant women use mosquito repellent?

Mosquito repellent contains trace amounts of anesthetics or poisons to numb or kill mosquitoes. Because the amount is small, people will not be harmed by it. However, it does cause a small amount of harm to both ordinary people and pregnant women. Therefore, it is best for pregnant women not to use mosquito coils, but to use window screens to prevent mosquitoes instead. During pregnancy, it is best not to use mosquito repellent products. You can choose to use mosquito lamps or mosquito nets. Mosquito coils have an impact on the fetus and may cause deformities.

It is understood that most mosquito repellent products labeled "slightly toxic" or "toxic" on the market contain toxic ingredients such as DEET and pyrethroids, but mosquito repellent products suitable for pregnant women and children do not contain such toxic ingredients, and most contain ingredients such as acrylates and phenoxyethanol. The chemical ingredients contained in mosquito repellent products, such as acrylates and phenoxyethanol, are all chemical synthetic ingredients. Phenoxyethanol is a preservative that has a disinfecting effect and is not recommended for long-term use.

Many businesses recommend mosquito repellent products suitable for pregnant women and children. They are still marked with the pesticide registration number, pesticide production approval document number, etc. In this regard, experts say that mosquito repellents on the market all belong to the category of pesticides, but that does not mean they necessarily contain pesticides. It still depends on their specific ingredients to determine whether they are toxic.

Daily mosquito repellent methods for pregnant women

1. Eating garlic can effectively repel mosquitoes, because mosquitoes do not like the smell of garlic secreted by the human body. You can also put a few garlic heads indoors to repel mosquitoes.

2. Oral vitamin B is excreted from the body through sweat after being metabolized by the human body, and it will produce an odor that mosquitoes dare not approach. The dosage is to take 1 to 2 tablets of vitamin B1 orally one hour before going to bed, but do not take it in large quantities for a long time.

3. Some people are often bitten by mosquitoes, but people around them don’t feel anything. It turns out that mosquito bites have a lot to do with the color of clothes people wear. If you wear dark blue or brown clothes, you are more likely to be bitten by mosquitoes. So you should wear light-colored clothes in summer.

4. Place two or three opened bottles of cooling oil, wind oil, etc. near you. Mosquitoes will be scared by the smell and dare not come to "invade". However, the effect is slightly worse, and the cooling oil and wind oil evaporate very quickly.

5. Use perfume with the scent of jasmine, Milan or rose, preferably tuberose. Mosquitoes cannot stand the scent of these flowers and flee away.

6. Take a few wide-mouth bottles, put a little concentrated sugar or beer in them, shake them gently so that the inner wall of the bottle is stained with sugar liquid or beer, and place them in places where there are many mosquitoes indoors. When the mosquitoes smell the sugar, they will fly into the bottles and get stuck or drowned.

7. Use mosquito repellent lotion, mosquito repellent cream, etc. Some of them can even provide effective protection for up to 8 hours. However, it should be noted that when used simultaneously with sunscreen products, the sunscreen effect will be offset to a small extent, so users should appropriately increase the frequency of applying sunscreen.