Taking a shower and washing my hair didn't have any effect on my body, so I asked the doctor who delivered me, and she said that she could also wash during confinement. Bathing and shampooing can prevent postpartum bacterial infections.
There will be an outflow after childbirth, which is equivalent to eliminating the waste of the body, there must be a lot of bacteria, if you do not take good care of the private parts, it is easy to cause various inflammations
The old confinement habit in China is to give birth to children without cleaning up personal hygiene, so a lot of puerperal fever occurs. The main causes of puerperal fever are prenatal or intrapartum non-disinfection, unhygienic and postpartum cleaning, caused by bacteria entering the uterus and causing infection. For the various high fevers or emergencies that occur, the traditional concept is that the new mother is "affected by the wind". Therefore, there is a saying that you can't bathe and wash your hair during the puerperium, for fear of being affected by the wind and the cold, leaving the root of the disease, in fact, this understanding is not scientific.
After childbirth, especially in the first few days, the sweat glands are very active, easy to sweat a lot, breast swelling and overflowing milk, there are lochia on the lower body, the whole body is sticky, several odors are mixed together, the health of the body is very poor, and it is very easy to cause disease. This requires new mothers to pay more attention to hygiene than usual.
Share my approach to postpartum care
First, take a bath and wash your hair frequently
I gave birth in the summer, it was very hot, so I had to take a shower and wash my hair, and I couldn't do it for a month without washing my hair, and it felt like a beggar
So when I gave birth, I asked the doctor when I could take a shower
The doctor said that the body can recover its strength to take a bath, I am on anesthesia, so it is difficult to walk for three days after giving birth, and after being discharged from the hospital, it takes two days to take a bath
Bathing precautions
1. Hot bath
Be sure to wash with boiled open cool water, the principle of high temperature disinfection
, avoid bacterial infections
2. Windproof
Must not blow the wind to get cold, the body has not recovered after childbirth, and the cold blowing wind will cause cold to enter the body and cannot be discharged
2. Lochia care
1, according to the sublimation soup on the confinement meal recipe to the pharmacy to match, to help the uterus to re-aging, lochia discharge
2, change sanitary napkins frequently, postpartum lochia just began to be particularly large, to be replaced frequently to prevent infection
Third, iodine disinfection
Use by mothers with lateral cuts or tears
Daily care of a cotton swab with a special private area, wiped with iodine, and rinsed with warm boiled water until the wound heals
Usually the wound heals in about half a month
When I sit in confinement, I wash it once every two days, because the summer is particularly hot, there is a lot of sweat after childbirth, the baby eats milk and leaks milk, the clothes are smelly, and it is uncomfortable to not bathe and wash your hair and sleep.
Therefore, expectant mothers who have not yet given birth do not have to worry about the problem of not being able to wash their hair and bathe during the month.
It is okay to take a bath and wash your hair, but pay attention to wind and warmth, bacterial infections, etc., and careful care will not be a problem