◆ The puerperal period is generally six weeks, and the most basic physiological changes in the puerperium period are "deficiency" and "stasis", so it is particularly important to strengthen postpartum maintenance.
◆ Dr. Yurong Wang
Every Mother's Day, it is natural to make everyone feel that it is great for mothers to give birth. The period required for the delivery of all organs of the mother's body, except for the breast, from the delivery of the placenta to the return to a normal state of infertility, is called the puerperium period, which is generally six weeks. Chinese medicine believes that the most basic physiological changes in the puerperium period are "deficiency" and "stasis", "deficiency", due to birth injuries and bleeding, as well as labor during childbirth, gas and blood consumption, there is a lack of qi and blood, the so-called postpartum "hundred knots of emptiness" is exactly this meaning. Due to the weakness of the postpartum period, the lack of righteousness, susceptibility to external evils, a little attention to care will be invaded by diseases and evils and various diseases will occur, once the onset of the disease is not only more serious, but also more difficult to treat. "Stasis", for the blood of menstruation and the peeling of the unfinished placental placenta placenta membrane, stasis is blocked inside, the old blood does not go, the lochia is inexhaustible, the new blood is not born, affecting the recovery of the body and normal breastfeeding, so it is particularly important to strengthen postpartum maintenance.
◆ Text: Dr. Wang Yurong, Hong Kong Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Photo: Data picture, online picture
Due to the sudden deficiency of qi and blood in the postpartum period, the emptiness of hundred pulses, the looseness of the heart, and the lack of solid health qi, external evil is extremely easy to invade and cause disease. Therefore, the temperature and humidity of the living room should be suitable, and the air should be fresh and the sun is sufficient. Pregnant women should pay attention to the thickness and thin clothing, not too greedy, bare-armed, sitting when the wind, so as not to invade the outside evil and catch a cold, causing postpartum body pain and diseases. If the puerperal period is in the middle of summer, it is necessary not to cover the room with thick clothing to prevent postpartum heat stroke.
Room temperature is best controlled at 22 ° C to 26 ° C, such as too high (above 28 ° C) will make people mentally weak, general discomfort; too low (below 20 ° C) will affect people's normal work and life, and easy to catch a cold. When cooling down with a fan in summer, it is not advisable to blow directly on the fan; when using air conditioning, you should pay attention to the circulation of indoor air. The indoor humidity is preferably about 50%, if the humidity is too high, it is easy to make people chest tightness and dizziness, appetite reduction, limb joint pain, puffiness, etc., you can use the dehumidifier to dehumidify, remove the indoor damp items, open the doors and windows for ventilation.
Precautions to be taken during the puerperium
Adjust the diet to avoid raw and cold
During childbirth, the woman is physically exhausted and bleeding, and is in a weak state after childbirth, and needs enough nutrition to compensate for the loss during pregnancy and childbirth, to meet the needs of her daily activities and milk production. Therefore, it is necessary to provide rich food to the mother, and the digestion function of the mother's spleen and stomach is still weak in the postpartum few days, and the diet should be gradually increased. Generally speaking, on the first day after childbirth, it is advisable to give liquid food, drink more soup, milk, porridge, brown sugar water, etc.; the next day can give softer light foods, such as noodles, blunt wontons, sesame paste, porridge, etc.; on the third day, eat a normal diet, eat less and more meals, and eat 4 to 5 meals a day.
Principles to be observed in the postpartum diet:
First, the variety of food is very diverse: meat and vegetarian collocation is very important, the richer the variety of food, the more balanced and comprehensive the nutrition.
Second, the diet should be more watery: most women sweat more, the water on the surface of the body volatilizes more, and the secretion of milk needs to increase the supply of water. In order to promote milk secretion, you can drink more fresh fish soup, lean broth, rib soup, chicken soup, mutton soup, pig's trotter soup, tofu soup, egg soup and so on.
Third, food should be cooked softly: maternal rice should be cooked softly, and eat less fried, hard and shelled food. In addition, the amount of postpartum diet should not be too much, and excessive diet after childbirth will make women further obese on the basis of weight gain during pregnancy, which is not beneficial for postpartum recovery.
In short, postpartum nutrition should be reasonable, eat a variety of foods, dietary meat and vegetarian collocation, dry and thin collocation, coarse and fine grain collocation, to meet the body's needs for various nutrients. At the same time, postpartum should also pay attention to dietary contraindications.
First of all, avoid cold after childbirth: most women are cold after childbirth, and foods that are too raw and cold should not be eaten more to facilitate the recovery of qi and blood. If you eat raw cold or cold food after childbirth, it is easy to cause digestive and absorption dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, and it is not conducive to the discharge of lochia and the removal of blood stasis, and it is easy to appear lochia and postpartum abdominal pain and other diseases. Fruits and vegetables taken out of the refrigerator are best heated before eating. Some cold fruits, such as watermelon, pears, etc., should not be eaten more; ice cold foods such as ice cream, ice cream, frozen drinks, etc., try not to eat or eat less. Secondly, avoid spicy and warm food after childbirth: spicy and dry food can lead to maternal heat, there will be mouth and tongue sores, constipation or hemorrhoids and lochia and other symptoms, may also affect the baby through milk. Therefore, do not overeat spicy and irritating foods such as peppers, peppers, fennel, garlic, leeks, etc.
Live with caution and work hard
After childbirth, under the premise of adequate rest and recuperation, an appropriate amount of activities should be carried out, and the rest of the mother should preferably be synchronized with that of the baby, and the time to rest when the child sleeps. Such as a healthy postpartum mother (that is, there will be no wounds), should get up as soon as possible to move or do an appropriate amount of exercise, 6 to 8 hours after childbirth can sit up, 24 hours can get out of bed activities, so that the body's function, physical strength can be restored quickly, but also conducive to lochia discharge and uterine recovery, and can reduce the occurrence of urinary retention and constipation; such as caesarean section or physical weakness and other special conditions, you can move in bed, but pay attention to the ability to do, should not be overworked, because of fatigue is hurt, qi deficiency, it is easy to suffer from postpartum blood collapse, Uterine prolapse and other diseases.
Talk about hygiene and forbidden intercourse
Puerperal lochia discharge, the uterus has not yet recovered, the blood chamber is open, susceptible to evil poison and disease, at this time in addition to paying attention to keeping the vulva clean, but also strictly prohibit intercourse, otherwise it is easy to seriously injure Chong Ren, the uterus, but also easy to make the evil poison take advantage of the void, resulting in postpartum fever, postpartum abdominal pain, postpartum blood collapse and bring down the disease. First, keep the vulva clean and dry, change the underwear and sanitary pads frequently, scrub the vulva with warm boiled water, and do not take a bath to prevent infection. Second, sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited during the puerperal period, first of all, because women in the puerperal period are weak, their resistance is low, and they urgently need to rest and recuperate, sexual life should be prohibited. Secondly, if there is a vaginal laceration or a perineal incision, puerperal sex will hinder the healing of the wound and easily cause infection. If sexual life is carried out during the puerperal period, the uterus has not fully recovered, and the germs will also take advantage of the weakness, causing serious diseases such as intrauterine infection and postpartum fever.
Flirt with Zhi Ning's heart
After childbirth, there are many deficiencies and stasis, such as emotional failure, gas machine blockage, more likely to lead to blood stasis. Worry, sadness, and excessive thinking can easily cause gas knots, which not only affect the smooth flow of lochia, but also lead to milk secretion disorders. Excessive mental tension, anger, and panic are easy to disturb qi and blood, resulting in diseases such as incomplete lochia, postpartum blood collapse and postpartum blood dizziness. Therefore, pregnant women should keep their spirits happy and in a good mood, so that the qi and blood are peaceful and avoid other diseases.
If the mother is bored, tired, loss of appetite, and even insomnia, anxiety, depression and emotional control, etc., especially attention should be paid to the treatment, you can ask experienced elders to take care of the baby on behalf of the family; the care of the family, the thoughtfulness of the husband, the enlightenment of friends, the maternal mood is of great help. At the same time, the environment should be relatively quiet, the room temperature should not be too high, and the light should be bright. Chinese medicine believes that postpartum boredom is mostly blood deficiency and dryness, you can take sweet wheat jujube soup, that is, use 10 grams of hot licorice, 30 grams of Huai wheat, 15 grams of jujube, decoction, 1 dose per day. Insomniacs can also add sour jujube kernels and cypress kernels in the square to calm the mind.