Cough during pregnancy

It is known that the state of health of the future mother is reflected in the development of the baby. Women understand that during gestation, various ailments can harm a baby. But fully to protect themselves from disease for 9 months is not all. Also, future mothers know that they can not take all the medications they used before conception. Cough during pregnancy is a common problem. How to cope with such a violation of health, it is useful to know every future mother.

Causes of cough

Usually this symptom occurs with a viral infection that affects the airways. When rhinitis mucus irritates the back wall of the pharynx, draining over it, which causes coughing. The same reaction can be due to mucous lesions in case of inflammation in the pharynx.

If the doctor diagnosed bronchitis, the woman begins to cough due to the accumulation of large amounts of mucus in the airways. Also make themselves felt pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, tumors.

Another cause of severe cough during pregnancy are diseases of an allergic nature. Only the doctor can make an accurate diagnosis, assess the state of health.

What is dangerous cough during pregnancy?

Do not delay with treatment, even if the state of health is not particularly disturbed. A problem like cough during pregnancy carries a risk in all 3 trimesters:

• future mothers may rapidly develop the disease. So, the acute respiratory virus can, in a very short time, go into more dangerous bronchitis, pneumonia;
• if a cough during pregnancy in the first trimester is a symptom of even an easy infection, then it can turn into problems with the development of crumbs, because at this time any ailment can cause pathologies in the fetus;
• such a problem can provoke the tone of the uterus, the threat of miscarriage, can cause placental abruption.

A particular danger is the problem for women who are pregnant with twins. Also, an additional risk exists for those diagnosed with low placenta, previa.

What can you do when you cough during pregnancy?

Any medicine should be prescribed by a doctor, but it is useful for future mothers to know what the doctor can offer them. Appointments will differ depending on the gestation period, concomitant diseases, the nature of the cough.

In the first weeks should try to avoid treatment with medications. Actively, you should use rinses, inhalations, compresses. Cough during pregnancy from the 2nd trimester can already be treated with some medications, for example, Propan, Gedelix. If necessary, such funds can be prescribed for cough during pregnancy, as Sinekod, Bromheksin, Fljuditik. But these drugs are contraindicated in later terms.