What to eat to get rid of lochia

Giving birth is a very difficult thing for women. They must take good care of themselves after delivery. The body should eat more foods that can promote the discharge of lochia. If the lochia is not discharged completely and recurs, it is easy to cause uncomfortable symptoms. Headache is a problem that many pregnant women will experience. Therefore, after giving birth, female friends should eat more foods that can expel lochia.

What to eat to get rid of postpartum lochia:

If you want to help eliminate postpartum lochia, eating more foods that disperse blood stasis and promote blood circulation is a good choice, and hawthorn, brown sugar and lotus root are among the leaders. Lotus root has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and also has the effect of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and promoting blood circulation. It is especially suitable for pregnant women with persistent lochia. It can help discharge postpartum lochia, and brown sugar has the effect of nourishing blood, qi and blood, and can promote pregnant women with residual lochia to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis as soon as possible and discharge postpartum lochia. Hawthorn fruit is also a little helper in treating new mothers who have poor appetite, dry mouth, and decreased food intake after giving birth, because hawthorn fruit contains a lot of hawthorn acid and sodium citrate, which can nourish yin and reduce fire, disperse blood stasis and promote blood circulation. It can help discharge the accumulated blood in the body and help discharge the postpartum lochia.

In addition to daily food, therapeutic medications can also help eliminate postpartum lochia. It seems that motherwort paste can promote uterine contractions, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and accelerate the removal of postpartum lochia. Blood-activating and stasis-removing drugs such as Acanthopanax Biochemical Capsules and New Biochemical Granules can also help to effectively discharge postpartum lochia. Taking oral anti-inflammatory drugs such as amoxicillin capsules after giving birth can greatly help with postpartum lochia.

As a country with strong culinary skills, my country is often good at using diet therapy to treat human symptoms. In terms of helping to discharge postpartum lochia, there are also many culinary foods that can be used as examples. For example, millet, egg, brown sugar porridge and chicken soup, these two kinds of food can nourish the spleen and stomach, nourish the blood, and are the best choices for pregnant women who want to expel lochia as soon as possible. Below we will briefly introduce the preparation methods of these two delicacies.

Millet, egg and brown sugar porridge: prepare 100 grams of fresh millet, 3 eggs, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Method: First clean the millet, then put enough water in the pot, add millet after boiling; after boiling, change to low heat and simmer until it becomes porridge; then beat the eggs in the porridge, stir, cook it for a while, add brown sugar and it is ready to eat.

Chicken egg soup: 3 raw eggs, 30 grams of donkey-hide gelatin cake, 100 grams of fermented rice, and 1 gram of salt. Method: First, beat the eggs into a bowl and beat them evenly with chopsticks; then, crush the donkey-hide gelatin cake and put it into the pot to soak, add fermented rice and a small amount of water and simmer over low heat; after it is gelled, pour in the beaten egg liquid, add a little salt and seasoning, and cook for a while before serving.

Do women who have cesarean section have a lot of lochia?

Generally, within 3 to 7 days after giving birth, it is the persistent lochia, which is large in amount, bright red in color, and contains a lot of blood, mucus and necrotic decidual tissue, and has a fishy smell. Later, with the repair of the uterine wall, the bleeding gradually decreases and becomes serous lochia, which is small in amount, lighter in shape, contains less blood, and relatively more cervical mucus, and contains necrotic decidual tissue, female secretions and bacteria. After about 2 to 4 weeks, it turns milky white or light yellow and produces white lochia, which becomes less and less in amount and no longer contains blood. It usually lasts about 3 weeks. Carefully observing the characteristics, smell, amount and duration of postpartum lochia can help you understand the recovery of the uterus and whether there is any infection. If the stubborn postpartum lochia lasts for more than 2 weeks and the amount is large, it often reminds that the placenta adhesion site is not restored well or there are residual embryonic membranes. If the postpartum lochia lasts for a long time and is pus-like. Or there is a strange smell, indicating that there is an infection in the uterine cavity. If it is accompanied by heavy bleeding and the uterus is enlarged and soft, it often indicates that the uterus is not repaired well.