Getting Sick During Pregnancy (Colds, Flu, and COVID-19)

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Pregnancy affects every system in your body, including your immune system. It is so important to take care of your health when you are expecting. Even when you take precautions to avoid getting sick, you can get a cold, flu, or COVID-19 at some point over the nine months of your pregnancy. Being sick is never fun and can be especially challenging when pregnant. Learn how to treat symptoms safely to return to feeling healthy faster. This episode examines the evidence of non-pharmacological treatments for cold or flu symptoms and the safety of over-the-counter medications during pregnancy.

This podcast is not intended as medical advice. You should discuss any symptoms with your doctor or midwife and talk to them about taking any medications, including over-the-counter medicines. 

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:10.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking
0:17.5	about being sick when you're pregnant. Pregnancy affects every system in your body, including your immune system.
0:25.0	And while it's so important to take care of your health when you're expecting,
0:28.0	even when you're taking precautions to stay healthy,
0:32.0	you may still end up with a cold the flu or
0:35.2	COVID-19 at some point in the nine months that you're pregnant and while being
0:39.9	sick is never fun it can be especially challenging during pregnancy. So in today's
0:45.3	episode we're going to talk about safely treating symptoms so that you can get
0:50.0	back to feeling healthy faster. And we're going to examine the evidence on
0:54.2	non-pharmacological treatments for cold and flu. We're also going to talk about the
0:59.4	safety of over-the-counter medications.
1:02.8	As a reminder, this podcast is not intended as medical advice, and you should discuss any symptoms
1:09.0	with your doctor midwife and talk to them before taking any medications, including anything that's available
1:16.4	over the counter.
1:18.4	You can find the full article and all of the resources that accompany this episode at pregnancy podcast.com slash sick.
1:28.6	You are currently listening to the public feed of the podcast.
1:32.1	This means that you have access to the last year of
1:34.8	episodes and you will hear advertisements from the sponsors that support this show.
1:39.4	You can become a pregnancy podcast premium member and get access to the entire back catalog.
1:47.2	You're going to get exclusive access to posts on the website, a copy of the Your
1:51.8	Birth Plan book, and you will never hear advertisements.
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