How to drive away the cold after childbirth

Women should pay attention to their body's recovery after giving birth, and must be careful not to catch a cold. If a woman catches a cold during the confinement period, it is very likely that she will develop a disease and affect her quality of life in the future. However, if you accidentally catch a cold after giving birth, you should also take some measures to drive away the cold. So what are the methods for driving away the cold for women who catch a cold after giving birth?

How to quickly drive away the cold after catching a cold during confinement

First, drink hot soup. You can boil water with ginger and brown sugar and then take it. After drinking ginger and sugar water, you will feel heat in your body and sweat will soon be discharged. Drink it a few more times and the cold in your body will be expelled.

Second, improve immunity. You should pay more attention to keeping warm, soak your feet in hot water every night before going to bed, eat some blood-replenishing and qi-replenishing foods, and increase your exercise appropriately to achieve the goal of enhancing immunity.

Third, keep warm after giving birth. Whether new mothers give birth by themselves or by cesarean section, they will sweat a lot after giving birth. At this time, they must avoid being blown directly by the wind. The best way is to cool down naturally. If it is at night, you should also pay attention to keeping the new mother warm to prevent her from catching a cold when the temperature drops at night.

Fourth, moxibustion. You can try using moxa sticks for fumigation, the effect is very good! Use moxa sticks to fumigate the affected area several times a day, and cover it well after fumigation to avoid catching cold again.

What are the symptoms of catching a cold during confinement?

First, the symptoms of postpartum rheumatism are that patients will be afraid of cold and wind, sweat, and have pain in moving joints. The pain symptoms will be aggravated by cold and wind. They need to wear more clothes, and severe patients need to wear cotton clothes in hot summer.

Second, patients with postpartum wind are prone to depression, which causes liver qi stagnation, leading to poor circulation of qi and blood. Stagnant qi and blood are prone to loss of nutrition, and wind evil can invade accidentally. Its clinical reaction symptoms are: fear of cold, fear of wind, pain in moving joints, as well as numbness, convulsions, swelling and pain.

Third, excessive sexual intercourse will damage the yin and essence. Deficiency of both yin and essence will lead to weakness of tendons and bones, allowing evil wind to invade. Its main clinical symptoms are: in addition to fear of cold and wind, joint pain, it mainly causes heaviness, weakness, back pain, sleepiness, pain, and fatigue intolerance. Some patients also have rheumatic and rheumatoid symptoms.

Catching a cold during the confinement period is ultimately caused by mothers not paying attention to their body care, so mothers must recover well and take good care of themselves after giving birth, and not let themselves catch cold or wind. You can eat more warm foods, such as apples, bananas, chicken soup, etc., which are good for the body.