About postpartum disease

Postpartum disease is a disease left over from when women give birth. It is mainly because women need to take good care of themselves during the confinement period, because women's bodies are relatively weak during the confinement period. If they are exposed to the wind or catch a cold, it will cause the uterus to become cold, and postpartum rheumatism will occur, which will cause postpartum disease. You can learn about the treatment of postpartum disease, and postpartum disease will not affect life safety.

What is postpartum disease

After ten months of pregnancy, comes that exciting moment. I believe every mother will feel very excited. However, many female friends often do not pay attention during the confinement period and may catch a cold if they are not careful. Therefore, many people will suffer from postpartum disease, so what is postpartum disease?

Postpartum disease refers to a general term for various diseases caused by exogenous pathogens in women after giving birth (including miscarriage and abortion), and the diseases that remain if they are not cured during the confinement period.

After giving birth, women's muscles, bones and pores are opened, their bodies are weak, and their insides and outsides are empty. If wind and cold invade accidentally at this time, or if they are extremely angry or sad, or have too much sexual intercourse, these may cause postpartum disease. Postpartum disease is also called postpartum rheumatism, menstrual disease, and menstrual tuberculosis.

Postpartum diseases can be divided into four types, namely, wind invading the blood vessels type, cold stagnation in the blood vessels type, dampness stagnation in the blood vessels type, and mixed cold and heat type. Since these diseases are similar to rheumatic diseases, and are also related to postpartum anemia and wind-cold invading the blood vessels, the use of general anti-rheumatic drugs is not effective for this disease. That is why this disease is called "postpartum rheumatism."

Symptoms of postpartum illness

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 when moving joints, there are also numbness, twitching, swelling and pain.

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, and aggravated pain when exposed to cold and wind. They need to wear more clothes. Severe patients need to wear cotton clothes in hot summer. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine is "cold evil entering the bones." One reason why it is difficult to treat is that women have a natural recovery period of 100 days during the confinement period, and their muscles, bones and pores are closed, which can trap rheumatism and cold evil into the body and prevent them from being expelled. The pathogenic factors stay in the body for a long time, damaging the skin, muscles and bones, and leading to serious muscle and bone diseases.

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. Since postpartum diseases are very difficult to cure, they are easier to treat during the confinement period. Therefore, once a woman gets sick during the confinement period, she must seek timely treatment. Otherwise, although postpartum diseases are not incurable, they are very difficult to treat.