Why do I feel cold after giving birth?

Childbirth is a very important thing for every woman. After giving birth, you must pay attention to getting more rest and make some adjustments in your diet. After all, childbirth causes great harm to women's bodies, and it takes a long time to recover after childbirth. Many women will sweat and feel cold during childbirth. Now let's talk about why the body feels cold after childbirth.

Why do I feel cold after giving birth ?

1. If the patient always feels cold, it is mostly because she did not take good care of herself during the confinement period. It is most likely that she was accidentally blown by the wind or touched by cold water during the confinement period. It is recommended that you eat more nourishing and nutritious food, which will play a good role in the recovery of your body.

2. Pay special attention to your diet. Eat less spicy or irritating food. Eat more light and nutritious food. Drink more boiled water to help detoxify the body. Eat fresh vegetables or fruits to supplement a lot of vitamins.

3. If you don’t know much about your physical condition, it is recommended that you go to some larger or regular gynecological hospitals to do some uterine examinations, because the doctors in large hospitals will have more research and experience, which can help patients understand their condition more clearly and recover faster.

What diseases are likely to occur after childbirth?

1. Puerperal heat stroke refers to an acute febrile disease characterized by central temperature regulation dysfunction caused by the inability to dissipate excess heat in the body of a parturient during the postpartum period in an environment of high temperature, high humidity and poor ventilation. Symptoms include high fever, water and electrolyte metabolism disorders, circulatory failure and nervous system dysfunction. The disease has an acute onset and develops rapidly. Improper treatment may leave serious sequelae or even death.

2. Why do you have headaches after childbirth?

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

1.) Blood deficiency: Excessive blood loss after childbirth, insufficient qi and blood, empty brain marrow, and blood failing to nourish the brain, leading to headaches.

2. Blood stasis: If lochia does not come out after childbirth, blood stasis will rush upward, blocking the brain vessels and causing poor blood circulation, leading to headaches.

3.) Cold evil: If a woman fails to rest properly after childbirth and is exposed to wind and cold, the cold evil may invade the brain and cause headaches.

3. Postpartum skin relaxation

1.) During pregnancy, especially in the later stages of pregnancy, the growing expansion of the uterus exerts long-term pressure on the abdominal skin, forcing the abdominal skin tissue to expand. The venous return in the body's circulatory system is blocked, resulting in varying degrees of pregnancy edema. The increased water content in the interstitial spaces causes the skin to become tight. After the mother gives birth, although her abdomen is no longer swollen, the skin tissue will temporarily lose its elasticity due to long-term expansion.

2.) On the other hand, for varicose veins, although venous return improves after delivery, pregnancy edema disappears and the skin appears loose, it is difficult to naturally return to the pre-pregnancy level.

3.) In addition, mothers often stay in bed for a long time and lack exercise during the postpartum confinement period, which leads to muscle atrophy and is gradually filled with fat, so sagging skin is inevitable. This will make it difficult to restore your figure after childbirth, reduce the elasticity and vitality of the skin, and easily lead to various skin diseases in the future.