Can fumigation cure postpartum diseases? Chinese medicine fumigation is effective

After giving birth, the body is still in a very weak state. Only through confinement can the body be well regulated. Chinese medicine fumigation can effectively prevent and treat postpartum diseases. In addition, if you have postpartum diseases, you must pay attention to rest and exercise. You can walk moderately during the confinement period.

1. What is Chinese medicine fumigation therapy?

Traditional Chinese medicine fumigation therapy, also known as "traditional Chinese medicine steam therapy", is a method of treating diseases by fumigating the affected area with the medicinal vapor produced by boiling traditional Chinese medicine with water. It has significant effects of dredging qi and blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and expelling wind, cold and dampness. It is an effective external treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine for preventing and treating postpartum rheumatism (confinement disease).

2. What is postpartum disease?

Postpartum disease, also known as postpartum rheumatism, is a disease that occurs in women of childbearing age after giving birth or having an abortion. It causes severe damage to their vital energy, excessive loss of qi, blood, and body fluids, emptiness of all their meridians, loose skin, muscles, tendons, bones, and pores, and they have no ability to resist wind, cold, and dampness. A disease caused by soreness and pain in muscles and joints due to the invasion of rheumatism and cold evil after going out too early, overworking, getting angry or crying, or having sex too early. The main symptoms include numbness, pain, soreness and swelling in muscles and joints throughout the body, fear of wind and cold, cold sweats, and aggravation of symptoms after exposure to cold wind. Physical fatigue, irritability, insomnia and nightmares, etc. Some patients also have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, eye socket pain, dry eyes or excessive tears, blurred vision, weakness and illness. Usually, various symptoms can be relieved through Chinese medicine fumigation during confinement.

3. Treatment methods for postpartum virus

1. Detect and treat early. During the month of confinement, no matter what disease you have, you should discover it early and seek medical treatment in time. If some women have persistent fever after delivery, it is necessary to find out the cause and be alert to possible infectious lesions in the body, such as pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis, mastitis, inflammation of the episiotomy wound or cesarean section wound, etc. Once diagnosed, effective anti-infection treatment should be carried out in time. If you do not take it seriously and mistakenly think it is a common cold and do not seek medical treatment in time, the inflammation will spread or become a chronic lesion, and the course of the disease will easily migrate or even become incurable.

2. Symptomatic treatment. Whether it is normal or during the "confinement period", if you get sick you should go to a regular hospital to see a professional doctor for treatment. However, if one blindly seeks medical treatment, is keen on folk remedies and secret recipes, or takes it for granted to buy medicines on his own, etc., it is possible to delay diagnosis and treatment, causing the disease to become chronic and long-term. If you have already suffered from the so-called "postpartum disease" such as low back pain, you should be treated under the guidance of a specialist with a comprehensive treatment method including medication, physical therapy, and physical exercise.

3. Rest, recuperation and exercise. After giving birth, the mother will be very tired, so she should rest in bed for the first two days. While resting in bed. But you still need to turn over and move more often. You can get up to wash, brush your teeth, and go to the bathroom. Before getting up, you should sit up for a while and only get out of bed when you don't feel dizzy. If you have always been in good health and fatigue has been eliminated, you can get up 24 hours after giving birth. As for the amount of activity after getting up, it should be increased slowly. On the first day after getting up, sit by the bed for half an hour in the morning and evening. On the second day, you can walk around the room, and then gradually increase the range and time of activities.