How long does confinement last?

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Many people believe that postpartum sweating is due to weakness after birth, therefore, to give maternal eat a lot of nourishing soup. In fact, due to a large number of liquid discharge during childbirth, parturient should supplement some high calorie and digestible liquid or semi liquid food, and parturient drinking more soup during puerperium is also conducive to the secretion of milk. Let's share my experience with you.

How long does confinement last?

But it should be noted that tonic best according to their own constitution, step by step, especially in the early puerperium (1 week after delivery), in a balanced diet, but also pay attention to light diet, so as to better promote the contraction of the uterus and lochia discharge, reduce postpartum complications. Otherwise, the new mother's digestive system is still relatively weak after birth, so it can easily cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, or breast overfilling, resulting in distending pain and even mastitis. What's more, if a new mother needs to feed her baby, if the food she eats is too greasy, she may also make her baby have gastrointestinal discomfort after eating the milk.

If the postpartum after a week, sweating symptoms still did not gradually reduce, still continued, it is "postpartum sweating". Or sweating occurs in the night sleep, sweating wet shirt, wake up to stop, it is "night sweat". Postpartum "spontaneous sweating" or "night sweating" is mostly due to the production of gas consumption, blood loss and Yin injury, so we need to go to the hospital for conditioning treatment.

The way of human excretion of water can be discharged from the urethra through the urinary system, or from the skin surface in the form of sweating. Therefore, the puerperal period, not only increased urine volume, but also the secretion of sweat gland skin is more vigorous, sweating more, especially sleep and wake up more obvious. But after a period of time, after the body's excess water is excreted, the phenomenon of sweating will gradually reduce, generally about 1 week after delivery will slowly improve.

matters needing attention

New mothers should pay attention to postpartum, to let themselves in the appropriate ambient temperature. Generally speaking, it is best to keep the room temperature between 26 and 28 degrees. If the mother is not in sleep, room temperature at 25 degrees is OK. If it is bath time, when the baby and mother bath, you can slightly raise the temperature.