What is safe to take during pregnancy for a sore throat and cough?

Answer 1

my OB said plain old robitussin DM (alchohol free) was fine.
suck on hard candy for the sore throat.
You can take plain old tylenol too.

for everything else you can take sudafed, the one without most of the crap in it.

and benadryl is good too.

these are words straight from my OB's mouth.

Answer 2

I would check out your local Health Food store and ask around for mild herbal teas and stuff that is soothing but not drug based. Homeopathic remedies are the only all natural medicines I know of to be safe. (I'm pregnant too and have been using homeopathics all my life and throughout the pregnancy) A homeopathic doctor or naturalpath doctor could help you out with what exactly to take for a cold or flue. These doctors are great and really know their stuff. The Health food store may have doctors they can refer you to. My midwife uses them too and suggests many of the remedies for pregnancy complaints that there are seems to be no conventional methods of treatment for. (-Like moodiness and trauma as well as the actual labor and birth.)
You are wise not to suppress your cold or take over the counter drugs as these really do effect your baby WAY more than the common cold does.
Hope you get feeling better!!! Drink tons of water!
-Emily (34 weeks pregnant with twins!)

Here are some really cool sites about homeopathy if you are interested.

A source to buy and learn from
http://abchomeopathy.com/

This source to buy from also has specific homeopathic mixed remedies as well as remedy kits for birth and pregnancy. They have remedies for infant problems like colic and teething and stuff too;
http://www.1-800homeopathy.com/

Problems during labor and birth and the best remedies - A midwifes site
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/homeopathic.asp

Turning the baby
http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/turnbaby.asp

A really great book that has it all on this subject!
http://www.homeopathic.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HES&Product_Code=per-hom

Answer 3

Here's some natural treatments that are recommended by the birthing center I work at:
*Cup of warm liquid (tea w/ lemon and honey or a clear broth) every 1-2 hours
*vaporizer
*zinc lozenges

Answer 4

get cough drops without menthol, or gargle warm salt water it does help. regular tylonol if you have fever other wise nothin huh sorry.

Answer 5

My OB told me I could take regular Sudafed as long as you don't have high blood pressure

Answer 6

Gargle with salty water and suck on some vitamin C drops.

Answer 7

This stinks
but nothing.
some hot tea and lemon
but do not take OTC or prescribed medications.
know it is hard to deal with this but baby first