In pregnancy, women’s resistance often
reduces, so they easily catch disease.
In pregnancy, the change of hormones will
make pregnant women’s resistance reduce. Therefore, besides dealing with the
unpleasant feelings such as morning sickness, backache, agita, cramp,
edema,...pregnant women can regularly catch diseases caused by weather such as
flu, coughing…
In
pregnancy, the change of hormones will make pregnant women’s resistance reduce.
Therefore, recognizing diseases that
pregnant women can catch in pregnancy will help them become more initiative to
keep health, check and cure timely to protect pregnancy healthy and safe. 5
following diseases that women can catch during pregnancy.
1. Stuffy nose (pregnancy rhinitis)
It isn’t caused by flu or normal allergy.
Stuffy nose and runny nose often take place to over 20-30% of pregnant women
and doctors call it pregnancy rhinitis. This phenomenon can begin early from
the second month of pregnancy and it will stop when baby is born. To some
women, pregnancy rhinitis can last even to some weeks after giving birth
because the high amount of estrogen in pregnancy will make mucous membrane of
nose inflame. It will affect nose and make slime run more. In addition, the
amount of blood in pregnant women’s body will increase, blood vessels will
widen and make nose membrane inflamed, as a result, it will cause pregnancy
rhinitis.
In
pregnancy, stuffy nose will cause a lot of difficulties and inconvenience for
pregnant women.
In pregnancy, this disease will cause a lot
of difficulties and inconvenience for pregnant women. They must take tissue
with them anytime and anyplace. Therefore, to reduce pregnancy rhinitis,
pregnant women should drink a lot of water, put pillow highly when sleeping,
take a bath with warm water or make towel become warm with hot water and then
put it on face and breathe steam smoothly. Moreover, you can use the kinds of
bittern or nasal wash to clear nose, avoid smoke and dust outside, smoke of
cigarette and stimulants. You should intensify the menu that has a lot of
garlic – it is considered the food that is good for blood and it is also an
effective nasal nose because it has anti-inflammatory feature.
2. Flu
In pregnancy, women’s immune system is
often weak, so viruses that infect diseases, especially flu virus have more
ability to attack. This disease about infection of respiratory system often
causes for pregnant women and fetus many risks about health, especially in the
first months of pregnancy. Pregnant women will have the longer time of catching
flu than normal people. When pregnant women catch disease, it will make them
increase the risk of miscarriage, fetus dies in the womb and inborn defect of
fetus such as cleft palate, or premature birth in the last months of pregnancy.
Therefore, preventing flu in pregnancy is very important to pregnant women.
Pregnant
women don’t absolutely use medicine when they have expressions of flu.
To prevent flu, pregnant women should avoid
contacting with patients or with the environment that has the risk of infecting
flu and they should obey the sufficient and suitable diet. When they go to the
area that has a lot of people, they should wear medical comforter and often
wash their hands with pasteurized soap. Pregnant women don’t absolutely use
medicine when they have expressions of flu such as coughing and fever without
going to the hospital to be cured correctly and timely. To women that have plan
to give birth, they should vaccinate before becoming pregnant from 3 months to
1 years.
