What causes postpartum sweating?

In fact, many women are prone to sweating after giving birth. This is mainly because during pregnancy, in order to provide nutrition to the fetus, the mother's body fluids are more than normal, which will be excreted after delivery.

1. Because the fetus needs to be nourished during pregnancy, the mother's body fluids are much more than normal. After childbirth, excess body fluids are naturally excreted mainly through sweating. Sweating is a way to eliminate water. If there are no other symptoms, postpartum sweating should be a normal phenomenon.

2. It is common to sweat frequently after childbirth, which is medically known as puerperal sweat. Generally, it only requires reasonable nutrition and normal breastfeeding.

3. Postpartum sweating, also known as night sweats, is mostly caused by the loss of qi and blood after childbirth, or internal heat due to yin deficiency, imbalance of yin and yang, floating yang and unrestrained sweat, which forces sweat to escape. Postpartum body pain, including joint pain, numbness, heaviness, swelling, lower limb weakness and difficulty walking, etc. It is mainly caused by the deficiency of qi and blood after childbirth, and the invasion of wind, cold and dampness.

4. These can also be treated with diet therapy. Mainly choose foods that can promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals. Such as angelica ginger mutton soup, tiger bone wine, astragalus papaya chicken (duck) foot soup, pepper stewed pig's trotters, ox knee pork tendon soup, mulberry branch and coix seed pig's trotter soup, etc.

5. Body pain caused by blood deficiency: You can use scallion and perilla drink: 100 grams of scallion, 15 grams of perilla leaves, 50 grams of brown sugar. First boil the scallion and perilla leaves with water, then remove the residue and keep the juice, add brown sugar to adjust. Take 1 dose per day for 5 consecutive days

6. For body pain caused by wind and cold, you can use Fangfeng and Job's tears decoction: Fangfeng 10g, Job's tears 30g. Decoction in water and drink 3 times a day. Take for 1 week.

7. Postpartum weakness, fever, and spontaneous sweating. Use ginseng and angelica, grind into powder in equal parts; add three liters of water, one pig kidney (sliced), half a bowl of glutinous rice, two green onions, and cook the rice until cooked. Take a bowl of juice, add ginseng and angelica powder into the decoction, and drink it warm before meals.