Getting Sick During Pregnancy and Finding Safe Relief
Pregnancy Podcast
Vanessa Merten
4.5 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Getting sick can feel especially tough when you're pregnant. Unfortunately, during pregnancy, you're more vulnerable to illnesses like colds, the flu, and COVID-19. This episode helps you understand what kind of illness you might have, how to treat your symptoms safely, and when to reach out to your doctor or midwife. Learn how these viruses spread, what symptoms to watch for, and how to distinguish between common cold, pregnancy rhinitis, or strep throat. Find out about evidence-based, non-medical strategies to ease symptoms. Hear about research on homeopathic remedies like Umcka and herbal teas for cold relief. Plus, a review of what we know about the safety of over-the-counter medicines and ingredients like acetaminophen, antihistamines, decongestants, and cough suppressants.
This podcast is not intended as medical advice. You should always discuss any symptoms and medications, including over-the-counter medicines, with your doctor or midwife.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Martin. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking about |
| 0:18.1 | getting sick during pregnancy and finding safe relief. Getting sick is especially |
| 0:24.5 | tough when you're pregnant. And unfortunately, during pregnancy, you are more vulnerable to illnesses |
| 0:30.6 | like colds, the flu, and COVID-19. This episode will help you understand what kind of illness you may have, how to safely treat |
| 0:40.9 | your symptoms, and when to reach out to your doctor midwife. You will learn how these viruses |
| 0:47.0 | spread, what symptoms to watch out for, and how to distinguish between the common cold, |
| 0:53.1 | pregnancy rhinitis, strep throat, the flu, and COVID-19. |
| 0:58.1 | Find out about the evidence-based non-medical strategies to ease symptoms, |
| 1:03.3 | plus you will hear about the research on homeopathic remedies like UMCA and herbal teas, |
| 1:09.8 | plus a review of the safety of over-the-counter medicines |
| 1:14.5 | and cold medicine ingredients like acetaminophen, antihistamines, decongestants, and cop suppressants. |
| 1:22.7 | You can find the full article and all of the links and resources for this episode at |
| 1:30.5 | Pregnancypodcast.com slash sick. |
| 1:35.9 | One of my favorite things about doing this podcast is that I get to do all the heavy lifting |
| 1:42.7 | and all the research so that you don't have to. |
| 1:46.8 | Become a pregnancy podcast premium member to access every single episode of the podcast. |
| 1:53.8 | You will get an ad-free experience so you'll never hear ads. |
| 1:58.8 | Plus, when you sign up, you get a free copy of the Your Birth Plan book. |
| 2:03.7 | Let me save you the time and hassle of digging through the research and sifting through conflicting information. |
| 2:10.5 | No matter what you're looking for more information on, there is a pregnancy podcast episode with all of the answers you're looking for. |
| 2:20.0 | Check out pregnancy podcast premium at pregnancypodcast.com slash premium. |
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