Pregnancy is a wonderful period in a woman’s life. After all, every woman was born in order to know all the happiness of motherhood.
But no matter how beautiful this period is, very often women in an “interesting” situation face not very pleasant changes in the body. Such as toxicosis, edema, change in blood pressure, change in body weight, skin stretching on the stomach, chest and hips, as well as heartburn. Very often, women already in the late stages complain of the emergence of the most fierce heart. People say that the baby is hairy.
How to get rid of heartburn during pregnancy
Heartburn is an unpleasant sensation of burning behind the sternum, which can bring to painful sensations and appears due to irritation of the mucous membrane of the esophagus with gastric juice, which is thrown from the stomach into the esophagus.
In pregnant women, heartburn is caused mechanically. Basically, she begins to bother the future mother at the end of the second trimester and not disappear until the very birth.
Why is it called mechanical?
Because – that the growing uterus gradually begins to press nearby organs to the spine.That is, the increasing uterus oppresses the stomach and when the average portion of food gets in it, there is simply not enough space in it, and the already released gastric juice sometimes just rises from the esophagus due to the lack of a place in the stomach.
How to alleviate the state of the future mother
Folk methods:
Everyone’s beloved – fried seeds
Method of application: In the nearest store you buy a large wrapper of seeds, come home, sit down comfortably in front of the TV and begin to absorb them intensively. Bottom line: After 5-10 minutes, relief occurs. And by the way it helps for a long time.
How to get rid of heartburn during pregnancy
Soda food
Method of application: 1 teaspoon of soda dilute in a glass of water (preferably warm) and drink in one gulp. Bottom line: helps for about an hour and a half.
Mineral water (Essentuki, Borjomi)
Method of application: buy water, produce gases. It is very important for the water to be non -carbonated. Since, if the water with the gases get the same effect as from heartburn, that is, the gases emerging from you will take a little gastric juice with you. This is a very good way, only water helped many pregnant women.
Milk, real fresh cow’s milk, sometimes a glass of this magnificent liquid works wonders. Heartburn passes instantly.
How to get rid of heartburn during pregnancy
Methods recommending modern obstetrician – gynecologists:
Drug relief of heartburn, that is, the use of drugs. Today, most obstetrician – gynecologists recommend two heartburn drugs used during pregnancy. Such as Renny and Maaloks. Since in these drugs the main active substance is magnesium oxide. And in other drugs for heartburn, it is replaced by aluminum hydroxide, which, with prolonged use during pregnancy, can negatively affect the development of the child.
And finally, the most effective method, but which, unfortunately, not all pregnant women use, this is diet therapy! During pregnancy, many are very difficult to abandon everything tasty in the diet. And with heartburn, you just need to exclude it all. Namely, all sour, salty, sharp, fried and sweet. Therefore, often pregnant women themselves are guilty in their ailment, since they first eat all this, and then begin to complain. So if you are strong in spirit, it is better to start getting rid of heartburn from an ordinary diet.
And if you still cannot resist and not to break, something tasty, then try the methods described above.