Health: How to Treat Sore Throat during Pregnancy

Health: How to Treat Sore Throat during Pregnancy, One health problem that often occurs is a sore throat. Sore throat is a common illness, but very disturbing comfort. Sore throat is usually accompanied with cough and flu. The cause of sore throat is a bacteria and a virus that attacks the throat, especially when the condition of our immune system was weak.

Sore throat is very disturbing, especially if the sore throat occurs in pregnant women. Many pregnant women suffer due to a sore throat, especially if the sore throat is accompanied by a cough. In addition, the older the age of the pregnancy will create greater perceived effect. A pregnant woman stated that she had chest pain due to coughing when experiencing a sore throat. This will certainly give rise to concerns about the health of babies in the womb and potentially cause depression in pregnant women.

To treat a sore throat is actually very easy. But the problems is when a sore throat occurs in a pregnant woman. Administration of medicines to pregnant women is particularly at risk to infant growth and development in the womb. Therefore if you want to give the medication to pregnant women should by a doctor's advice. But for those of you who want to use the natural way, you can try to treat sore throat in pregnant women use the following way.

How to Treat Sore Throat during Pregnancy

1. Lemon Drink

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For pregnant women, taking the medicine would be alarming choice. Therefore, pregnant women can treat a sore throat by drinking lemon. The way is to prepare a tablespoon of lime juice and add a tablespoon of soy sauce. Stir until well blended and then drink it with a spoon like when you drink syrup. Do not worry, if felt good because my niece just likes it :).

But if you want a sweeter taste, you can add a tablespoon of honey as a substitute for soy sauce. You can consume directly or mixed with a glass of warm water.

2. Saline Solution
I got this way from a friend in college. Simply dissolve 1-2 tablespoons of salt in a glass of warm water. Then gargle with the saline solution until it feels in the throat. Salt is known potent to kill bacteria cause of sore throat. This is very useful as an alternative medicine to treat a sore throat in pregnant women.

3. Garlic 
Garlic can be an alternative for pregnant women to treat a sore throat. The way is chewing garlic directly. If you do not like the smell of garlic, you can roast it first 1-2 cloves of garlic. Mash garlic by pressed manner, chew and then eat. Garlic can stimulate the body's immune system to fight the virus so it is very useful to treat a sore throat that you experienced.

4. Break
The best way to treat the disease is to rest. Rest will make your immune system back to the maximum performance so it will be strong enough to fight the virus that cause sore throat. In addition, drink plenty of water can also speed up the healing process of sore throat.

That's the information on how to treat sore throat during pregnancy. Hopefully this information can be useful for you all. In addition, also read another article on how to treat stretch mark during pregnancy. Thank you for your visit.

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