What to do if the body is damp during confinement?

Most women are prone to excess moisture in their bodies during the postpartum confinement period. Excess moisture after childbirth can easily cause the stomach and abdomen to swell. As the meridians are blocked by excess moisture in the body, it is easy to become obese, suffer from skin pain, etc. It can be treated with massage therapy or diet therapy, or with Chinese medicine.

1. Diet therapy

The most common way to eliminate dampness is diet therapy, such as barley and red bean porridge. Job's tears can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, relax muscles and eliminate numbness, clear away heat and discharge pus; red beans can strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. Eating coix seed and red beans cooked with water can have a diuretic and dehumidifying effect. Note: Not suitable for people who urinate frequently.

2. Exercise

Exercise can not only relieve stress, but also accelerate the discharge of moisture from the body. Exercises such as running, walking, and swimming help blood circulation and enhance water metabolism in the body.

3. Eat a light diet

The best way to protect your stomach and intestines is to eat a light, moderate and balanced diet. Fatty and greasy foods, sweets, fried foods, raw and cold foods, ice cream or cold vegetables and fruits will cause the stomach's digestion and absorption function to stagnate and should not be consumed frequently.

4. Seasonings to remove moisture

Ginger, onion and garlic are not only commonly used seasonings in the home, but also have certain medicinal value. Try to cook a bowl of hot ginger soup at home. Use the ginger soup to force out the moisture in the body. After you sweat all over your body, the symptoms will be relieved.

The confinement period is when the mother's bones are most fragile and most susceptible to invasion by moisture, exogenous wind and cold. On the one hand, there is a lot of lochia left in the body when the baby was here, as well as waste from metabolism during pregnancy; because the blood and stagnant fluid left over from giving birth to the baby, etc., pose a great hidden danger to the body!

On the other hand, because the vital energy is greatly depleted after childbirth, it is easy to cause rheumatic pain and joint pain. If you can't recover during the confinement period, it will become a lifelong disease after the confinement period! Just like a broken bone, if you can't connect the joints during the recovery period, there will still be sequelae after the growth! Therefore, it is very important for women to do a good job of confinement.