What is the reason for sweating during confinement?

The confinement period is probably the time period that our female friends dislike the most, because during this period we need to pay special attention to keeping warm, diet and other matters. Many women keep sweating during the confinement period. What is the reason for this phenomenon? Is it normal to sweat all the time? Let’s take a look at it below.

Excessive sweating after childbirth is mainly due to the strong excretion function of the skin, which allows most of the water accumulated in the body during pregnancy to be excreted through the skin. This is a physiological phenomenon of the body recovering and regulating itself after childbirth, and it is not pathological. In addition, drinking more brown sugar water, hot soup, and hot porridge is also one of the reasons for excessive sweating. Puerperal sweat is usually more obvious 1 to 3 days after delivery and improves on its own about 1 week after delivery.

Postpartum sweating is a phenomenon caused by the sudden change in the mother's body environment after she has gone through ten months of pregnancy. She will generally experience night sweats due to physical weakness. No matter it is a hot summer or a very cold winter, postpartum mothers always sweat a lot more than normal people. Some mothers after giving birth will sweat profusely in the hot summer. If they do a little activity or eat, they will sweat even more. A lot of sweat will appear all over their body, which will feel sticky and uncomfortable.

Sweat is excreted from the human body in the form of body fluids. During pregnancy, a lot of water will accumulate in the body of the mother, and the amount of blood alone will increase by about 30% compared to before pregnancy. In a normal person, the blood volume is about one-tenth of a person's body weight, which is about 4,000 to 5,000 milliliters, while a pregnant mother's blood volume will increase by nearly 1,000 milliliters. After giving birth, these fluids in the mother's body will become redundant. If they are not discharged, they may even increase the burden on the heart. The natural regulation system of the mother's body after childbirth will produce three main methods of excreting water from the body. The first is to excrete water through the mother's kidneys in the urine. The second method is to excrete some excess fluid through breathing through the lungs. The third method is to evaporate through the pores on the surface of the skin through the sweat glands and excrete it from the body, thus forming the phenomenon of postpartum sweating.

It turns out that this is a phenomenon that occurs to most women during confinement, and it is a normal phenomenon. It is mainly related to the environment and diet of our female friends during the confinement period. It is very uncomfortable to keep sweating during confinement, so we should learn some methods to cool ourselves down, so that we can stay away from these troubles.