What causes calf pain during confinement?

Women will be relatively weak during the month of confinement, and need to supplement a lot of nutrition to enhance resistance. Only when the resistance is strong can the body recover faster. In addition to diet, you must also pay attention to keeping warm during the confinement period. If you catch a cold during the confinement period, you may suffer from confinement disease. Some mothers will experience calf pain during the confinement period, which is very painful. Why does calf pain occur during confinement? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Why do I have calf pain during confinement?

This situation may be caused by postpartum disease or catching a cold during the confinement period. In this case, Chinese medicine moxibustion can usually be used to help drive away the cold, while paying attention to keeping warm.

2. What should you pay attention to during the confinement period?

1. Hygiene: Mothers in the confinement period will have more secretions, so they need to maintain daily cleaning. Many people think that you cannot take a bath or wash your hair during the postpartum period because it will make you more susceptible to colds. This is not true. You can usually take a shower and wash your hair one week after giving birth. However, you cannot take a tub bath, only a sponge bath is allowed, and you can take a shower after one and a half months to avoid infection caused by sewage entering the body.

2. Keep warm: It is believed that mothers who have just given birth need to keep warm. This is indeed the case, but attention should be paid to the degree of warmth. The room should be ventilated frequently to keep the air fresh. If it is summer, there is no need for excessive insulation. Just be careful to avoid the mother being blown directly by the fan or the air-conditioning outlet facing her directly. When turning on the air conditioner, maintain a suitable temperature, not too low. If the mother sweats a little, she should change into dry clothes in time.

3. Cleanliness: During the confinement period, in addition to normal washing of hair and bathing, you also need to maintain normal cleanliness in other aspects, such as brushing teeth, cutting nails, etc. Because mothers eat more during the confinement period, they must pay attention to oral hygiene. Generally speaking, they can brush their teeth on the second day after delivery. Twice a day. Remember to brush your teeth with warm water to avoid irritating your gums. You can also supplement your food with calcium to strengthen your teeth. Nail trimming can be done normally without worrying about infection.

4. Food: It is not advisable for mothers to eat eggs within a few hours after delivery, because they are in a weak state at this time. If they eat eggs, it will be difficult to digest and increase the burden on the stomach and intestines. You can eat some liquid food and other digestive foods in the first three days. Vegetable soup and fish porridge are recommended. Avoid eating foods that are difficult to digest or cause bloating, such as soy milk. After three days, you can slowly add some nourishing foods, such as fish, meat, shrimp, etc. The nutrition should be balanced with iron, calcium, protein, fiber, etc. (You don’t have to drink broth every day as too much fat will affect the composition of breast milk and make it difficult for the baby to absorb).

5. Vegetables and fruits: When consuming vegetables and fruits, mothers should be especially careful not to eat fruits that are too cold, as this can easily cause gastric congestion and make digestion difficult. Reduce the intake of salt and other condiments in vegetables. As for vegetables, eat more kelp to supplement iron and iodine, sesame to supplement a variety of nutrients, and carrots and black beans to supplement vitamins ABC. Edible foods include: mulberries, longan, grapes, peanuts, black rice, red dates, spinach, fish, meat, eggs, milk, and soy products, etc.

6. Taboo foods: cold fruits and vegetables: winter melon, watermelon, pear hawthorn, persimmon, strawberry, mango, cantaloupe, white radish, leek, garlic, bitter melon, celery, etc. At the same time, avoid drinking stimulating drinks, strong tea, coffee, etc., and overly sour or salty black plums and hawthorns. Some Chinese medicines that should not be taken one or two weeks after delivery: ginseng, codonopsis, and astragalus, as they can easily cause excitement and affect rest. Safflower, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Achyranthes bidentata, and frankincense have too strong blood-activating effects and are not suitable for this stage.

7. Exercise: Generally speaking, you can sit in bed for a while 8 hours after delivery, get out of bed to go to the toilet 12 hours later, and you can move freely within 24 hours. Endocrine changes caused by childbirth lead to relaxation of muscles and joints. Therefore, you should avoid labor and do some moderate exercise. After half a month, you can do some sit-ups, abdominal muscle contractions and other exercises, but the intensity should not be too high. (Do not do heavy work, otherwise it may cause uterine shedding)

3. Reminder

I mentioned before that you need to keep warm during the confinement period, as long as it’s not excessive. But remember that it’s best not to touch anything that is a little cold. It’s best to use warm water to wash your hands even in summer, and you can ask your family to help open the refrigerator. Otherwise it will easily lead to "postpartum disease". Mothers should pay special attention to keeping a happy mood, and it is best to reduce the attention of relatives and friends as much as possible, otherwise it will make them excited and affect their sleep.