The immune defenses are lowered, especially if you go through a period like the change of season that goes from the warm to the cold, and you can find flu symptoms like colds accompanied by some fever line. Do not be alarmed more than necessary, this can also happen during pregnancy.
Rhinovirus, the basic cause of colds, creeps into the respiratory tract and causes sore throats, excessive mucus secretions, headaches and breathing difficulties .
How can you cure a cold in a natural way in such a delicate period as pregnancy?
Here are some tips before getting to paracetamol.
Rest as a cure for colds
First of all, the rest, as soon as you feel some symptoms of tiredness, fatigue, irritability it is good not to ignore, but to listen to your body and the signals it sends us.
If you are still leading a stressful life, with fast paces and pretend you don't have a big belly, stop .
Take a deep breath: it's really time to slow down. Don't let the immune defenses totally reset because then it will be even more difficult to recover.
Against colds, water
The second all-natural tip is within a glass, bowl, cup, gargle and nasal washes.
Never be lacking in water, at least a liter and a half a day to drink ; wash your hands often; use boiling water to make fumigations, fill the radiator trays with water in the winter season, adding balsamic drops, such as thyme, eucalyptus or mint essential oil.
Drink lots of herbal teas made with lime and rooibos tea, rich in vitamin C and without theine.
Sodium bicarbonate against cold in pregnancy
This fantastic white powder, together with boiling water and a few drops of thyme or eucalyptus essential oil, helps purify the respiratory tract thanks to fumigations, warm limbs and vapors .
Get yourself a towel and treat yourself to five minutes to stay with your face below you to breathe the beneficial effluvia with baking soda. It will also give you even purer skin!
Onions for colds in pregnancy
Grandmother's first remedy, not only to eat, in Spain still in use, when you have a cold or the air is flawed, cut an onion into four and leave it in the corner of the room, changing it to a new one the next day.
The onion purifies, eliminates and engulfs bacteria, both from inside and out. If breathed it helps nasal congestion.
Honey and lemon, a winning combination against colds in pregnancy
Honey, combined with lemon juice, is ideal for disinfecting and softening irritated mucous membranes . Put a teaspoon in a glass of warm water in the morning, with a few drops of lemon, and sip on an empty stomach.
Ginger against colds in pregnancy: yes or no?
The ginger question in pregnancy is much debated. Yes or no? Among experts who advise against the root and herbalists who say otherwise, we remain faithful to the experience and the middle ground: a couple of grams in the herbal tea once a day do not present contraindications in a pregnancy with normal values.
The decoction with ginger against the cold is excellent : a small piece of fresh root, some cumin seeds, a few fennel seeds, the organic lemon peel and a clove. Boil everything for about five minutes, strain with a sieve directly into a cup, into which you will add a teaspoon of honey and two drops of lemon.
Essential oils against colds in pregnancy
As seen, essential oils, as long as they are beneficial in other moments of life, should be avoided directly during pregnancy . Massages with essential oils or oral intake are therefore to be avoided.
Very useful is instead their use to fight the cold through suffimigi or steam baths, in natural deodorants for the home, as well as in radiator trays, or in modern or less modern diffusers for the environment.
Ideal for the purpose are:
- essential oil of eucalyptus,
- mint essential oil,
- pine essential oil,
- thyme essential oil,
- bitter orange essential oil,
- bergamot essential oil,
- essential oil of malaleuca or tea tree oil .
Vinegar and salt for colds in pregnancy
If you wake up with a red throat and in flames and tears in the eyes at the thought of having to face the day like this, do not worry, a natural remedy, a bit rude perhaps, but very effective there is: water, white vinegar and salt, nth remedy of the grandmother.
Come on, these ingredients should not be drunk, they are used only for gargling! half a glass of water, a couple of tablespoons of vinegar, a teaspoon of fine salt, mix. Maybe the sour-salt mix doesn't sound good to you, but trust me, the less water you put in, the more it works.
The throat will burn you as never before at the first gargle, just for a few seconds, after which you will feel an incredible relief: continue for five or six times. If you really can't make it, opt for gargling with an infusion based on fresh sage leaves.
Pregnancy-compatible oral sprays for colds
There are manufacturers that are attentive to the issue, so you will find on the market in the parapharmacies, pharmacies or herbalist shops more supplied even products for the throat that are harmless in pregnancy.
For example, to spray up to three or four times a day, there is a natural spray based on grapefruit, echinacea and aloe seeds .
