Avoid staying in the sun for a long time
Some pregnant women, due to outdoor working conditions, must be in the sun for a long time, so they need to pay close attention to avoid sunburn and heatstroke. If possible, avoid jobs in such hot weather.
When going out, pregnant women need to wear a hat or cover an umbrella, wear sunscreen… do not let the sun shine directly on you for a long time.
Pregnant women should also limit going to the beach and sunbathing. Sunbathing makes pregnant women prone to dehydration, dizziness, lightheadedness (even fainting).
Every day, you need to regularly drink some cooling and refreshing drinks such as black bean water, ceiling water, and hot tea.
Avoid being greedy and lying in an unsafe place
When the weather is hot, many pregnant women often avoid the heat by looking for a windy place to cool off, or using a strong fan or air conditioner directed at them for a long time. Medicine believes that, after pregnancy, most of the qi and blood are weakened, easily infected with toxic wind, thereby giving birth to diseases.
Therefore, pregnant mothers should pay attention when enjoying the cool air: do not be too cool, should not turn on the fan or air conditioner directly at the body, do not lie outside for too long. When you sleep at night, you should still have a thin blanket ready to cover if you feel cold.
Avoid erratic eating, maintain hygiene in eating and drinking
When the weather is hot, the body is tired, pregnant mothers often lose their appetite, eat poorly... In addition, due to the effects of morning sickness, many pregnant women become more and more anorexia, skip meals, or eat inadequate intake and in terms of quantity and quality.
Meanwhile, eating and nutrition during pregnancy is a very important issue. Pregnant women need to pay attention to reasonable eating, enough 4 food groups, should not eat too simple because it can make the baby undernourished. Pregnant women should eat cool foods that have the ability to cool down, eat lots of fruit, drink lots of water and drink oresol to compensate for electrolytes when needed.
Pregnant women should also be careful about food safety in the hot season, should stay away from salads, unprocessed foods or street food stalls, should bring hygienic bottled water instead of drinking. water in the cafeteria or restaurant.
Choose when to go out
The more you stay in a cool place, the better. The intense sunlight in the afternoon and afternoon is not good for the body, it is easy to make pregnant women dizzy and dehydrated.
Avoid sunburn: Sunstroke can also bring serious consequences. Pregnant women will feel headache, dizziness, lightheadedness, severe stroke, fainting, etc., adversely affecting the fetus. Therefore, pregnant women should not go, stand in the sun for too long, especially at noon when the temperature rises. Avoid going out from 10am to 4pm, when UV rays peak and are harmful to pregnant women's health.
When going out, pregnant women should wear long, sweat-absorbent clothes and a wide-brimmed hat. When traveling long distances, you should bring enough drinking water. When there are abnormal signs, it is necessary to seek shade to rest immediately. Note: Do not enter the air-conditioned room immediately after returning from the hot sun to avoid a sudden temperature change that is easy to get a sunburn or worse, a stroke.
When pregnant women notice unusual signs such as: body is too tired, uterine contractions or abdominal pain, nausea, bleeding ... should quickly go to the hospital for timely examination by doctors. .
Pay attention to drink water
Filtered water is very important for pregnant women, especially when it is hot, the body sweats a lot, the more water needs to be added. Especially during pregnancy, the body temperature of pregnant women will be higher than normal, so the amount of water supplied to the body also needs more.
This condition, if prolonged, will make pregnant women extremely tired, exhausted, low blood pressure, dizzy, dizzy... When the body cannot replenish enough water, Braxton Hick contractions (false labor) will appear. show more. Lack of water also makes it easy for pregnant women to have swollen feet and ankles. Many pregnant women misunderstand that drinking more water will cause more swelling. However, it was a big mistake. The more water you drink, the more smoothly your body will function. Pregnant women can add water through fresh fruit juices, which provide water, vitamins and many other minerals.
The recommended level of water to drink is about 8-10 cups per day (in other seasons 6-8 cups). When drinking water, you have to drink small sips continuously to absorb water, if pregnant women drink 1 cup of water straight away, the body can't absorb it, then the body will excrete a lot through the urine. When urinating a lot causes the body to lose more minerals, making the body more tired.
Avoid irregular eating and sleeping
Similar to eating, during rest, hot weather can make pregnant women uncomfortable, lose sleep, and harm both mother and fetus. During this period, pregnant women need to practice "sleeping at night, getting up early in the morning, active during the day". In the afternoon, it is necessary to have an appropriate rest time, but you should not sleep too long to avoid mental sluggishness and fatigue.
In order to adapt to the hot climate, pregnant women should participate in some physical activities to increase physical strength such as walking in the cool weather, exercising indoors, etc.
Avoid stress, sadness, impatience or anger
Heat plus some physiological changes after pregnancy make negative emotions appear more in pregnant women. This expression is not beneficial to health. Medicine from ancient times to the present attaches great importance to the influence of the spirit on the health and illness of the mother and the baby.
Maintain good personal hygiene
Due to the hot weather, pregnant mothers will like to soak in water, like to swim in swimming pools, especially pregnant mothers living in rivers and rural areas often have a habit of bathing in ponds and lakes... Unclean is very easy to transmit diseases, especially diseases transmitted through the vagina, thus affecting the health of mother and fetus.
Therefore, pregnant women should not bathe, but should use a bucket of water to flush, or shower with a shower.
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