Is it normal to sweat a lot during pregnancy?

After giving birth, women have to stay in confinement for a period of time. During this period, in order to quickly recover the body, they should eat some nutrient-rich foods. Sweating during confinement is a common phenomenon. Many mothers who have just given birth will experience such symptoms. Is it normal to sweat a lot during confinement? Let’s take a look at this symptom below.

In order to alleviate the condition of excessive sweating during confinement, it is recommended that you strengthen your postpartum nutrition and exercise appropriately to enhance your physical fitness.

The degree of postpartum sweating is related to factors such as your own physical condition and whether the delivery process is smooth. The extent to which you sweat actually indicates the severity of your energy loss. During the postpartum period, which is what we usually call the confinement period, if you can adjust your body in time, the condition of excessive sweating can mostly heal itself. The speed of recovery will vary depending on the degree of your vital energy loss.

But sometimes sweating a lot during confinement may also indicate abnormal conditions. You need to be vigilant. If the following conditions occur, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for treatment in time:

Postpartum sweating syndrome. If you still sweat profusely after the postpartum period, it is recommended that you be alert to whether you have postpartum sweating syndrome. There are two types of postpartum sweating: one is profuse sweating that continues, which is called "postpartum spontaneous sweating" in traditional Chinese medicine; the other is sweating during sleep that wets the clothes and stops when waking up, which is called "postpartum night sweats" in traditional Chinese medicine. The occurrence of these two situations are manifestations of what is commonly known as "postpartum disease" and you need to go to the hospital for treatment so that the doctor can use Chinese medicine to help you regulate your body.

Postpartum heat stroke. If you sweat a lot during confinement, you should also consider whether it is related to heatstroke, fever and other diseases. In the hot summer weather, if a mother is affected by the heat and suddenly develops a high fever, she will experience symptoms such as sweating, coma, drowsiness, and even restlessness and convulsions. This is postpartum heatstroke. Postpartum spontaneous sweating has no seasonality, and there is no fever or changes in consciousness.

Postpartum fever. Postpartum fever may also have symptoms of excessive sweating, but it has an acute onset and a short course, and is characterized by high fever and sweating, and the fever subsides after sweating. Postpartum sweating syndrome is characterized by excessive sweating, but no fever occurs.

The above is an explanation of whether excessive sweating during confinement is normal or abnormal. Sweating is mostly pathological. Find the cause and receive treatment promptly. Excessive sweating is mostly spontaneous sweating. If a mother who has just given birth cannot take medication for the sake of her child's health, she can improve such symptoms through food therapy. I hope the above information can help you.