How should pregnant woman have a fever? Physical cooling

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How does pregnant woman have a fever to do?? After all, the physiological characteristics of pregnant women and fetuses are different from those of ordinary people. Therefore, we should treat them differently in the face of fever. How to take care of pregnant women when they have a fever can ensure the health of their mothers and fetuses.

How should pregnant woman have a fever? Physical cooling

First: physical cooling in addition to find out the cause of fever, for pregnant women, moderate fever is necessary, fever often increases the metabolic rate of the mother, and will be combined with many uncomfortable symptoms, such as: headache, loss of appetite, general fatigue, palpitations, and even dehydration, and increase the burden of cardiopulmonary function of pregnant women. So to choose moderate fever, in general, if the temperature of pregnant women is not higher than 38.5 degrees Celsius, and no obvious symptoms, you can consider physical methods to help fever, such as: ice pillow, heat dissipation patch, warm water wipe, such as repeatedly wiping with warm towel, placing ice bags in armpit, forehead and groin, etc. The use of antipyretic drugs should not be used as much as possible. As for when to consider the use of drugs, it varies from person to person. However, if the body temperature is higher than 38.5 ℃ and accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms, it can be considered to use drugs under the guidance of doctors, otherwise it will harm the fetus.

Second, to find out the cause of fever, we must especially reiterate that the harm of the pathogen causing fever to the mother and fetus is more important than fever. Therefore, when pregnant women have a fever, it is important to find out the cause of fever and find out the right medicine, which is more important than simply reducing the fever.

Third: if only a transient mild fever, generally speaking, will not cause harm to the mother or fetus. However, some studies have found that during the period of 5-6 weeks of pregnancy (3-4 weeks of pregnancy), that is, during the period of neural tube development, if the temperature of pregnant women is higher than 38.9 ℃ and lasts for more than 24 hours, it will increase the chance of fetal neural tube defects (such as anencephaly). However, it must be emphasized that few pregnant women will let their body temperature rise so high and last for such a long time without doing anything Li. Therefore, the harm of fever to the fetus or mother is not greater than that caused by the cause itself. If fever is caused by rubella infection, the harm of virus to the fetus (such as deformity) will far exceed that caused by fever itself.

matters needing attention

After the first trimester of pregnancy, the fever caused by influenza will not cause direct harm to your baby. However, pregnant women will get very sick because of influenza. Therefore, pregnant women should be vaccinated against influenza. But if pregnant women are healthy, the common cold and fever during pregnancy will not cause too much impact on pregnant women or fetuses. Matters needing attention: 1. When pregnant women have a fever, they need to take medicine under the guidance of doctors. Generally, the choice of drugs is also related to their pregnancy stage. 2. Pregnant women had better not use indomethacin, which is forbidden for pregnant women. 3. If the fever of pregnant women is not caused by bacterial infection, it is better not to use related antibiotics, which will be harmful to the health of the fetus and pregnant women.