Can pregnant women take a bath with mugwort?

Pregnant women tend to become irritable and have endocrine problems after becoming pregnant. The most obvious manifestation in appearance is problems with their skin. Many people know that taking a bath with mugwort has a good effect on some skin problems. Therefore, many pregnant women with skin problems want to take a bath with mugwort to treat their own skin problems, but they are afraid that taking a bath with mugwort will harm their babies. So, can pregnant women take a bath with mugwort?

Mugwort tastes bitter and spicy, and is warm in nature. It can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, and relieve cold pain. It is an important medicine for gynecology. Bathing with mugwort water can warm the meridians. If a pregnant woman has wet and itchy skin, she can use mugwort water for external washing, but it is not suitable for those with yin deficiency and blood heat.

After a woman becomes pregnant, many special physiological changes occur in her body, such as active secretion of sweat glands and sebaceous glands, which causes easy sweating and increased secretion of sweat and oil on the head. If she does not wash her hair or take a bath regularly, the dirt on the skin and head can affect the excretion function of the pores, which can easily lead to infection and itching or other skin diseases. Therefore, pregnant women should wash their hair and take a bath frequently, change clothes frequently, keep themselves clean and hygienic, prevent infection, and reduce skin diseases. Washing your hair frequently can also keep your hair soft, shiny, beautiful and comfortable, which is beneficial to the physical and mental health of pregnant women.

When it comes to bathing, expectant mothers should first take a standing shower instead of a tub bath or a sitting bath. Secondly, they should pay attention to appropriate methods and ways of cleaning sensitive parts of the body. Showering is the best choice. Nowadays, people usually take a shower, and this is especially true for expectant mothers. Generally, sitting baths are not recommended after pregnancy. If you sit bath, the dirty water after the bath may enter the vagina, and the vagina's disease resistance is weakened, which can easily cause cervicitis, vaginitis, salpingitis, etc., or cause urinary tract infection, causing the expectant mother to have symptoms such as chills, high fever, abdominal pain, and even intrauterine or vulvar infection causing premature birth. This will inevitably increase the chances of taking medication during pregnancy and create conditions for malformations and premature births. Therefore, expectant mothers should not take a sitz bath, let alone take a bath in a public bath.