Flu and Cough during Pregnancy

I am down with very bad flu and cough during my first trimester. Think I am sick for almost a month. Take mild medication prescribed by the doctor at Hougang Plaza since it's a Sunday and my nearby clinics are not opened. I am still not well after finishing the whole medication. Colleague recommends me to go Toa Payoh TCM. I am filled with hope then but it comes tumbling down when I am rejected for treatment by the doctor due to me still in my first trimester. The doctor there advises me to see a gynae instead. In the end, decide to let my body heals on its own, 自生自灭 kind. And it works!! Manage to get well after a couple of weeks...

Another outbreak occurs in my second trimester. Again it's cough and flu. Initially go for medical visit to the GP clinic near my house. If I didn't remember wrongly, it's few days before CNY. *Sian* Can't take any CNY goodies and my situation is so jialat, I can't even taste the food that we eat at my mum's for reunion dinner during CNY eve!!! 100% no taste and no smell at all!! Can't eat my fav pineapple tarts. Will be a waste to eat it as I've no taste. Go to the free TCM clinic near my house to try out after that. Decided that if it does not work the second time I go, I'll head down to Toa Payoh instead. So I really go to the clinic twice and after the second time, manage to get better and no need to head down to other clinics or Toa Payoh. :)