What to do if your fingers hurt during confinement

A woman's body is very weak after giving birth. This weakness is not visible on the surface, but refers to internal weakness, because the fetus grows by absorbing nutrients from the mother. What should some women do if they have finger pain during the confinement period? The hormones in a woman's body will change after she becomes pregnant, and the hormones will also change after giving birth. Let's find out whether the finger pain during the confinement period is related to hormonal changes.

(1) Nerve compression. During pregnancy, there is an overall increase in the amount of water circulating in the body. Therefore, the ligaments in the wrist and other parts become edematous, compressing the nerve channel that controls the fingers, the median nerve, causing numbness and pain, which causes carpal tunnel syndrome.

(2) Vitamin B12 deficiency. Lack of this vitamin can cause peripheral nerve disorders and lead to numbness and pain in the joints.

(3) If a mother does housework too early or too much after giving birth, or holds the baby for too long, or is exposed to cold water, it will overload the joints, tendons and ligaments, causing pain in the wrists and finger joints, and the most common "mom's wrist", which is clinically also known as "narrowing tendon bursitis of the wrist." The symptoms are: swelling and pain at the base of the mother's thumb, which makes it difficult to move the thumb or wrist; grasping, gripping, twisting, pinching and other actions will cause or aggravate wrist pain, and in severe cases it will affect sleep; the pain is sometimes like neuralgia, which will spread up to the arm and down to the end of the thumb.

(4) During the confinement period, postpartum mothers have less activity and even seldom get out of bed to walk. This will cause the fat pad in the heel to degenerate due to disuse and become weak. Its role in supporting body weight and cushioning vibrations during exercise is greatly weakened.

(5) Traditional Chinese medicine believes that postpartum joint pain is related to postpartum blood deficiency, blood stasis, or retention of wind, cold and dampness. If blood is deficient, the limbs, tendons, veins and joints will not be nourished; if blood is stagnant, the circulation of qi and blood will be blocked; if wind, cold and dampness invade the body and stay between the skin, meridians and joints, blocking the circulation of qi and blood, all of which can cause postpartum joint pain.

Therefore, the reason why postpartum mothers suffer from postpartum finger joint pain is also closely related to the above 5 points. During the confinement period, mothers should rest well, reduce labor and contact with cold water, and avoid postpartum finger joint pain.

We all know the reasons for the pain in finger joints during confinement. The joints hurt here or there. Maybe we didn't do it well somewhere, which led to this result. During the confinement period, there are things you cannot do wrong, so no matter how much you like it, there are some taboos.