What to do if you get angry during confinement

During the confinement period, women usually eat a lot of nutritious food in order to have enough milk to supply the baby. Since they rarely exercise during the confinement period and eat high-protein, high-calorie food for a long time, it is easy to get angry. After getting angry, since the mother needs to breastfeed the baby, it is best not to use medicine blindly. She must drink more water and eat more fruits and vegetables. If the condition is serious, it is best to see a doctor.

Mothers should not take any medicine randomly if they get a sore throat during the confinement period. Instead, they can reduce the heat by eating more heat-clearing and detoxifying foods.

1. Mung beans. Mung beans can cool down and detoxify, clear away heat and relieve restlessness. Drinking some mung bean soup or mung bean porridge is most suitable for people with a bad temper and a restless mind, but breastfeeding mothers should consume it in moderation.

2. Fruit. Water chestnuts can be eaten as fruit or as a side dish. They can relieve the symptoms of irritability, thirst, mouth sores, dry stools and yellow urine in breastfeeding mothers. Star fruit can clear away heat and promote salivation, and is most suitable for mothers with excessive internal heat and oral ulcers. Except for oranges, mangoes and other fruits that are hot and inflammable, other fruits, such as apples, peaches, bananas, etc. can also play a role in clearing heat and removing fire.

3. Vegetables. Cabbage can clear away heat, relieve restlessness, and promote urination and defecation. Celery can remove liver fire and relieve heat from the lungs and stomach. It is beneficial for mothers who are prone to "getting angry" to eat it regularly. Lettuce is crisp and tender with high water content. It can clear away heat, relieve gas and reduce phlegm.

How to prevent getting angry during confinement

1. Stay hydrated

When you get a fever during confinement, you should pay attention to drinking more water. Both the mother and the baby should drink water. Drinking plenty of water can promote metabolism in the body, lubricate the intestines, and help excrete various toxins in the body.

2. Keep the air moist

A dry environment will cause water loss. You can put a humidifier in the room to increase the air humidity, which will help relieve symptoms of heat such as dry mouth, dry nose, etc. for babies and mothers.

Mothers should avoid getting sore throat during the confinement period as this will affect breast milk and the baby will also be prone to getting sore throat after drinking this breast milk. If the symptoms of heat are severe, you need to go to the hospital for treatment in time.

What foods can't you eat during confinement?

1. Avoid eating raw, cold and hard food. The previous generation will always remind you that "postpartum food should be warm, not cold!" Warmth can promote blood circulation, while coldness will coagulate the blood, causing poor blood circulation in the body, affecting the discharge of lochia, and also causing indigestion, gastrointestinal dysfunction, diarrhea, etc. Therefore, new mothers should never eat raw, cold or hard food. Raw and cold foods such as ice cream, ice cream, cold drinks, iced fruits, etc. and hard foods such as hard, fried, pan-fried and fatty foods are all foods that mothers should avoid.

2. Avoid eating spicy or irritating foods. Spicy and irritating food is very harmful to the mother's body. Eating too much can easily damage body fluids, consume qi, and damage blood, aggravate qi and blood deficiency, and easily cause constipation. It is also harmful to the baby after entering the breast milk. These foods include peppers, cloves, fennel, onions, ginger, mustard seasonings, and stimulating foods such as strong tea, coffee, and alcohol.

3. Avoid eating too salty food. Overly salty foods, such as pickled foods, contain a lot of salt. The sodium in the salt can cause water retention, and in severe cases, it can cause edema. But you should not avoid salt. Because you will urinate and sweat more after giving birth, the amount of salt excreted also increases. You need to supplement a certain amount of salt to maintain the balance of water and electrolytes. Overly salty foods include pickles, salted eggs, salted fish, bacon, smoked meat, etc.