Wash your hands with cold water occasionally during confinement

Chinese women have a month to recuperate after giving birth, and this month is called confinement. During the confinement period, women not only need to pay attention to their diet, but their daily behavior is also restricted. For example, they cannot touch cold water, cannot go out to work, cannot take a bath, etc. What impact will it have on their bodies if women occasionally wash their hands with cold water during the confinement period? Let’s learn more about it.

1. What are the side effects of washing hands with cold water during confinement?

1. Affects joints, making it easy to suffer from arthritis, joint pain and other joint diseases after middle age.

2. Affects the body's recovery. After childbirth, the joints and pores are open, the body is relatively weak, and when cold air invades, it causes various functions to decline, affecting the body's recovery speed.

3. It causes irreversible damage to the body. If you don’t pay attention during the confinement period, the damage caused to the body is irreversible. Parents must pay attention.

2. Why can’t you take a cold shower during the confinement period?

Due to heavy bleeding during childbirth, sweating, back pain and abdominal pain, the mother's physical strength is greatly depleted. Her qi, blood, muscles and bones are very weak. She is easily attacked by wind and cold at this time and needs some time to recuperate. A natural birth requires 30 days of rest, and a caesarean section requires an extended rest of more than 40 days. During this period, you should avoid catching a cold or chilling a fever, or exposing your joints to wind, cold, and dampness.

Therefore, the bath water temperature for postpartum mothers should be kept at around 35℃-37℃. Even in summer, they should not take a shower with cold water to avoid poor discharge of lochia, which may cause abdominal pain, irregular menstruation, body pain, etc. It is usually necessary to wait for 40 days before slowly using cold water.

If women wash their hands with cold water during the confinement period, it may cause sequelae such as arthritis, and this kind of damage is often irreversible, and it is not easy to cure it. Therefore, during the confinement period after childbirth, women must pay attention to protecting themselves, never wash their hands with cold water, and also pay attention to rest more.