Can pregnant women drink cold water?

When it comes to drinking water, everyone has different ideas. We often see in TV dramas that many foreign women can be discharged from the hospital on the first day after giving birth, and can even go to the supermarket to buy ice cream. Although in China you need to stay in confinement after giving birth, there is no problem drinking some cold water when you are still young. However, considering the physical constitution of Chinese people, we don't mind drinking cold boiled water after giving birth. Not only that, we also need to know the correct way to drink water.

Modern theoretical basis:

Try to drink less water during the confinement period. Water molecules are heavier, and the cells throughout the body are in a relaxed state at this time. If you drink too much water, the heavy water molecules will enter the body and diffuse, which will destroy the contraction instinct of the mother's cells and cause a "water bucket belly" and "water bucket waist", and easily cause a "drooping internal organs" body shape, which will then cause aging of the body's functions. You may suffer from various premature aging diseases of women, such as back pain, cold hands and feet, black wrinkles, lack of vitality, neuralgia, etc. This will not be worth the loss.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory:

Ancient traditional medicine believes that a woman's qi and blood are greatly depleted and her yang fluid is strained during childbirth. Drinking some non-alcoholic rice wine can replenish blood and promote blood circulation, regulate qi and blood throughout the body, and avoid postpartum qi and blood deficiency, dizziness, fatigue, blurred vision, sweating, and no or very little lochia. At the same time, modern medicine has also confirmed that drinking non-alcoholic rice wine after childbirth can help mothers avoid wind and cold, prevent many diseases such as postpartum joint pain, and promote blood circulation, warm the spleen and stomach, and promote milk secretion.

Postpartum water replenishment:

It is necessary to replenish water in time after delivery. On the basis of normal food intake, the mother should appropriately increase soup and water, while still mainly drinking boiled water.

Many women drink brown sugar water to replenish blood after giving birth. Experts point out that mothers can indeed drink some brown sugar water to supplement iron, but don't drink too much. Brown sugar has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, so it is best to eat it within 10 days after delivery. It is beneficial to the discharge of bloody lochia and serous lochia. If the condition turns into white lochia, you should no longer use brown sugar or use less brown sugar, so as not to prolong the discharge time of bloody lochia, cause chronic hemorrhagic anemia, and affect uterine recovery. In addition, mothers should boil brown sugar water before drinking it, because brown sugar is prone to breed bacteria and cause disease during storage and transportation.

Some people say something even more terrifying, saying that you can't drink water during the confinement period. This needs to be decided according to the situation. You must drink water, but you have to drink it in a particular way. So for the health of mothers, mothers, please learn more.