How to remedy cold joints during confinement?

Women are very weak during the confinement period, so they must pay attention to all aspects of their daily life. First of all, there are many taboos in diet. For example, you cannot eat raw or cold food at this time, and you should also avoid some fried foods. Try to eat less acidic food. In addition, you must keep warm at ordinary times, otherwise, catching a cold during the confinement period will be very harmful. If the joints are caught in cold, you can take the following methods to remedy it.

How to remedy cold joints during confinement?

In this case, consider postpartum disease. Postpartum sickness can easily be misdiagnosed as rheumatism or rheumatoid disease. If it is treated as a rheumatic disease, the effect will be minimal, or the treatment may be effective but relapse soon after the medication is stopped. Postpartum illness is very painful, so we should take precautions against it. The clinical manifestations of postpartum disease are mainly a decline in the patient's overall physical function and metabolic function. The clinical symptoms are complex, and from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is an imbalance of yin and yang. Modern medical examinations cannot confirm the diagnosis, but patients feel that the symptoms are very obvious, and they feel that their physical health has plummeted after becoming ill. Suggestions: The treatment principle of postpartum disease is to adjust and improve the patient's overall body function and promote and accelerate the patient's body's metabolic cycle.

Reasons for cold arms during confinement

If women experience arm pain during the confinement period after childbirth, it may be caused by holding the baby for a long time or by joint pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. If it is the former, just pay attention to rest and recuperation. During pregnancy, women's metabolism is active and their muscles, bones and pores are open. During childbirth or miscarriage, their vitality is greatly damaged. During the confinement period, wind and cold take advantage of the opportunity to invade their muscles and bones, and their pores close, trapping the wind and cold in the body, causing illness in the future. Therefore, to eradicate postpartum wrist pain and hand joint pain, it is necessary to eliminate the wind and cold from the body, strengthen the physical fitness, regulate immunity, and adjust the endocrine system. Since you need to breastfeed during the confinement period, you should not take any medicine randomly and remember to strengthen physical exercise.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Cold Arms During Postpartum Period

Boil mugwort leaves in water for bathing: Use 100g fresh mugwort leaves (50g dried product) and a few slices of ginger to boil half a bucket of water, then pour the water into a hot water tub at a suitable temperature for bathing. Function: Mugwort has the effects of regulating qi and blood, warming the meridians, expelling cold and dampness and relieving pain. Postpartum mothers are prone to wind, cold and dampness due to deficiency of qi and blood, so they should often use it to boil water for washing their bodies.

Mash ginger for application: Take an appropriate amount of ginger, mash it into a paste, and apply it directly to the joints or related acupuncture points. Cover it with plastic wrap to prevent the ginger paste from drying out immediately and affecting the application effect. However, it should be noted that ginger paste can burn the skin, so people with delicate skin or those who are prone to allergies should use it with caution to avoid damaging the skin. Function: Dispel wind and cold, and enhance blood circulation and metabolism around joints. Mothers with obvious individual pain points should use this method as an auxiliary treatment.

Hot compress method with coarse salt bag: buy 1 pound of edible coarse salt, fry it until hot, add 50g of moxa leaves, put it into a gauze bag and wrap it with a cloth with good breathability, and apply it to the affected area. However, you need to pay attention to adjust the temperature to prevent skin burns. Function: Relieve local inflammation and improve joint metabolic function. It is best to do it once a day for more than a week. The salt can be reused.

How to massage arm pain during confinement

If it is caused by the pressure on the elbow when holding the baby for feeding or sleeping. You can press the Quchi point. It is equivalent to the midpoint of the upper part of the elbow joint when the elbow is bent at 90 degrees. Use the thumb of your other hand to rub the Quchi point. If the pain is over a large area, you can rub the area with your palms for 3 to 5 minutes. Also, be careful not to overwork yourself and keep warm. It can be combined with elbow abduction and external rotation exercises. Mothers should not lift heavy objects by themselves.