What are the symptoms of severe postpartum illness?

The so-called postpartum diseases refer to the diseases that women suffer from during the confinement period. There is definitely not just one type of disease, but actually many types. This means that during the period of confinement after childbirth, mothers must protect their health in all aspects, so as to effectively prevent postpartum diseases. But even if preventive measures are taken, some women are still prone to illness. So, what are the symptoms of severe postpartum illness?

Symptoms of postpartum illness

Ten months of pregnancy are just for the sacred moment when life comes. The birth of a child will bring the continuation of life to a family. However, women and their families often do not pay attention to the mother's body after giving birth, which leads to women suffering from a disease called postpartum disease after giving birth. So what are the symptoms of postpartum disease?

1. Postpartum headache.

It is caused by excessive blood loss after childbirth, insufficient qi and blood, blood failing to nourish the brain, or physical weakness causing cold, cold evil invading the brain, or blood stasis entering the collaterals, blocking the brain collaterals. Western medicine believes that it is most likely caused by changes in hormone secretion levels. Another possibility is that if an epidural or spinal puncture was used during labor, it could also cause a severe headache.

2. Body aches after delivery. Postpartum body aches refer to joint pain or body aches that a woman experiences after childbirth, but there is no redness or swelling on the skin surface of the painful area. This is called postpartum body pain or postpartum joint pain.

3. There are also symptoms such as cold pain in the lower abdomen, pain in the lower abdomen, postpartum hair loss, postpartum depression, and postpartum fainting.

What are postpartum diseases?

Postpartum diseases are very difficult to cure for women. They are mainly caused by not paying attention to the body during the postpartum confinement period. If you suffer from postpartum disease, you should first seek medical attention in time and go to a regular hospital to find a professional doctor for treatment. Never delay diagnosis or treatment. So what are the postpartum diseases?

1. Anemia caused by excessive blood loss after childbirth and intrauterine blood congestion can cause physical weakness, dizziness, abdominal pain, back pain, etc.

2. Excessive sadness, worry, crying in the wind, and depression can easily cause liver qi stagnation, leading to poor blood circulation. Stagnation of qi and blood can easily lead to loss of nutrition, and wind evil can invade accidentally. Its clinical reaction symptoms are: fear of cold, fear of wind, blindness, blurred vision (astigmatism), eye and eye socket pain, migraine, trance, and depression. In addition to pain when moving joints, there are also numbness, twitching, swelling and pain.

3. Women are forbidden to have sexual intercourse during the confinement period. Excessive sexual intercourse will damage the yin and essence. Deficiency of both yin and essence will lead to emptiness of tendons and bones, which allow wind evil to invade. Its main clinical symptoms include fear of cold and wind, and joint pain, as well as heaviness of the whole body, weakness, back pain, and fatigue intolerance. Some patients also have rheumatic and rheumatoid symptoms.

4. People who are impatient are prone to get angry. People who think too much secretly consume Yin blood. The former's ambition fire can injure Yin and cause internal wind, while the latter's Yin blood secretly consumes internal heat and causes blood dryness. According to Chinese medicine theory, "Blood deficiency produces wind, which is a kind of wind caused by blood not nourishing tendons and bones, that is, rheumatoid arthritis. The specific clinical symptoms are pain in large and small joints all over the body, headache or local pain. Some patients are accompanied by fear of cold and wind, feeling uncomfortable and edema on cloudy and rainy days. Severe cases can lead to edema all over the body. Long-term improper treatment can lead to severe postpartum unique rheumatism and late rheumatoid arthritis."