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.

From a medical point of view, most cases of postpartum sweating are normal physiological regulation phenomenon, it is actually caused by maternal metabolism. We know that the circulating blood volume of pregnant women increases after pregnancy, which is mainly to meet the needs of fetal growth and development; At the same time, with the increase of hormone level and the acceleration of material and energy metabolism, a large amount of water and sodium stay to meet the maternal needs after pregnancy.

matters needing attention

Don't worry about getting cold, too thick bedding will also increase sweating; In addition, try not to wear too much and still feel comfortable. Generally, when you go out, you can add some windproof clothes. This includes cleaning of clothes and drying of bedding. Close fitting clothes must be changed frequently and kept clean to avoid bacteria invading the body and producing symptoms. The bedding to keep dry, but also to avoid the role of bacteria in the body, so that the body produces disease.