What are the symptoms of postpartum wind

After giving birth, the mother's body will be much weaker than before and needs a period of rest and adjustment. In China, this period is called confinement. If you catch a cold during the confinement period, you may experience symptoms of postpartum wind. Once you suffer from this disease, you will have symptoms such as fear of wind and cold, and easy sweating. Pregnant women need to adjust their bodies at this time to avoid developing any illness. Let’s find out.

Symptoms of postpartum wind

It is a great thing for a mother to give birth to a child. In many cases, physical abnormalities may occur during or after the delivery process. Postpartum wind is a disease that occurs during the confinement period after childbirth. Many people don’t know much about postpartum wind before experiencing it. So let’s take a look at the symptoms of postpartum wind.

1. Afraid of wind and cold

For patients with postpartum wind, the earliest symptoms are fear of wind and cold. Because the patients did not take proper measures to keep warm during the postpartum period, and the mothers who had just given birth were in a very weak state and had poor resistance, a large amount of cold air entered the body, causing insufficient blood and qi, and thus they became afraid of wind and cold. This is accompanied by joint pain in the mother.

2. Prone to sweating

Another obvious symptom of postpartum wind is sweating. The mother will be very weak after giving birth. If the mother does not take good care of herself during the confinement period, it is easy for her to suffer from qi deficiency after childbirth. When qi deficiency occurs, it is easy to sweat.

3. Joint pain

After suffering from postpartum wind, the mother's joints, hands, feet, waist and other parts of the body will feel numbness and soreness, and may also be accompanied by fear of cold, fatigue, etc.

4. Irritable temper

Compared to normal circumstances, your temper will become more irritable and you will get angry easily. You will often feel angry and cannot control your emotions well.

What causes postpartum wind?

After giving birth, many mothers may still be immersed in the joy of having a baby and neglect themselves. When she later discovered something abnormal in her body, the doctor told her that she was suffering from postpartum wind. Postpartum wind mainly refers to soreness and numbness in the joints or limbs during the postpartum period, which causes discomfort to the mother who has just given birth. So what exactly causes postpartum fever?

1. Blood deficiency

For mothers who already have blood deficiency and lose too much blood during delivery. If the mother is not properly adjusted after giving birth, it is easy for her to suffer from postpartum wind.

2. Wind-cold

After giving birth, the mother's physical condition is still very weak. If she catches a cold at this time, the cold will take the opportunity to invade the mother's body, which will lead to poor circulation of qi and blood, resulting in joint pain and postpartum wind.

3. Blood stasis

After delivery, if the postpartum blood stasis is not cleared away, it will lead to blood stasis. Or if it is due to a difficult delivery operation that causes bleeding, it will cause blood stasis and block the veins, leading to postpartum stroke.

4. Joint hypermobility

Another reason is excessive joint activity. Although the joints are not excessively active before delivery, after delivery, the synovial fluid in the joints is poorly secreted, and numbness in the wrists may occur with a little exertion.