What are the symptoms of postpartum disease

To put it simply, confinement refers to the period of rest and recuperation of at least one month that women need after giving birth or having a miscarriage. We call this period of time "confinement". In traditional Chinese thinking from ancient times to the present, women need to stay in confinement after giving birth, and recuperation during the confinement period is very important for new mothers. So what are the symptoms of postpartum disease? Let’s take a look.

1. 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. The clinical symptoms of this postpartum disease are: fear of cold, fear of wind, blindness, blurred vision (astigmatism), pain in the eyes and eye sockets, migraine, trance, and depression. In addition to pain in moving joints, there is also numbness and twitching.

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2. During the confinement period, women's muscles, bones and pores are wide open, their qi and blood are weak, and they are empty inside and outside. They are easily invaded by wind, cold and dampness. The clinical symptoms of this confinement disease are: numbness of limbs, difficulty in flexion and extension, headache, dizziness, swelling, stiffness, poor appetite, little and astringent urination, fear of cold and wind all over the body, sweating, pain when moving joints, aggravated pain when exposed to cold and wind, and good dressing. Severe patients need to wear cotton clothes in hot summer. According to Chinese medicine theory, cold evil has entered the bones.

3. Anemia caused by excessive blood loss after childbirth and intrauterine blood congestion can cause postpartum diseases such as physical weakness, dizziness, abdominal pain, and back pain.

4. 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.

The above introduces several symptoms of postpartum disease in great detail. I believe that friends who have read this will have a deeper understanding of postpartum disease. Some mothers will suffer from a series of postpartum diseases due to cold, fatigue, or mood swings during the confinement period. Once they get postpartum diseases, it is difficult to recover to the same state as before.