What to do if your arm hurts after childbirth

It is said that giving birth is like walking through the gates of hell for women. This shows that giving birth is also a very dangerous thing for women. Some problems may arise during the delivery process, and if the postpartum care is not good, women may suffer from various diseases. Many elderly people in families are not in good health and cannot help mothers take care of their children. Mothers can only take care of their children by themselves after giving birth. Some mothers want to know how to cure the arm pain after giving birth?

1. What to do if your arms hurt after giving birth: Keep warm

Postpartum women must pay attention to keeping warm. They must not touch cold water or other things that can make the body cold. They should use warm packs or hot water bottles to warm their arms to promote blood circulation in the arms. They should also do more upper limb exercises and massage more to promote the expulsion of cold air in the body, and the pain can be greatly relieved.

2. What to do if your arm hurts after giving birth: Traditional Chinese medicine treatment

If you have arm pain after giving birth, you can use traditional Chinese medicine to treat it, including acupuncture and hot compress with medicine. Acupuncture stimulates the acupoints, such as the three yin and three yang points of the hand, to effectively promote blood circulation. The method of hot compress with medicine is to put some Chinese medicine that can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dispel wind and relieve pain into the medicine bag, then steam it, and then apply hot compress to the painful area.

Boil mugwort leaves in water for bathing: Use 100g fresh mugwort leaves (50g dried product) and a few slices of ginger to boil half a bucket of water, then pour the water into a hot water tub at a suitable temperature for bathing.

Function: Mugwort has the effects of regulating qi and blood, warming the meridians, expelling cold and dampness and relieving pain. Postpartum mothers are prone to wind, cold and dampness due to deficiency of qi and blood, so they should often use it to boil water for washing their bodies.

3. What to do if your arms hurt after giving birth: Refuse to cover them

Many elderly people are afraid that new mothers will catch a cold, so they make the mothers wear more clothes and pants, and ask them to wear long sleeves and long pants and close windows and doors even in summer. This is unscientific. If you choose long sleeves and long pants, you should choose light and thin fabrics. After giving birth, you will sweat a lot, so you should change clothes frequently. If the mother is in a sweating state all the time, she will catch a cold if she is not careful, which will cause joint pain.

4. What to do if your arm hurts after giving birth? Pay attention to rest

If women experience arm pain during postpartum confinement, it may be caused by holding the baby for a long time, so they just need to pay attention to rest and recuperation. During pregnancy, women's metabolism is active and their muscles, bones and pores are open. During childbirth or miscarriage, their vitality is greatly damaged. During the confinement period, wind and cold take advantage of the opportunity to invade their muscles and bones, and their pores close, trapping the wind and cold in the body, causing illness in the future. Therefore, to eradicate postpartum wrist pain and hand joint pain, it is necessary to eliminate the wind and cold from the body, strengthen the physical fitness, regulate immunity, and adjust the endocrine system.

5. What to do if your arm hurts after giving birth: Dietary treatment

There are many methods of postpartum diet therapy that have been used by the people until now. The methods vary from region to region, but most of them are mainly based on warming yang and dispelling cold, removing wind and removing blood stasis, and nourishing yin and replenishing blood. The following two methods can be appropriately selected according to the constitution:

Angelica and ginger mutton soup: use 400g mutton, 20g angelica, appropriate amounts of ginger slices, salt, cooking wine and soy sauce. Remove the fascia from the mutton, chop it into small pieces and blanch it. Put an appropriate amount of water in the casserole, add angelica slices, mutton cubes, ginger slices, and cooking wine, boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then simmer over medium heat until the mutton is cooked through, and add salt to taste.

Function: Angelica sinensis is warm in nature, nourishes yin and blood, moistens the intestines and promotes bowel movements. Lamb is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, minerals, carotene and B vitamins. It can be used for blood deficiency, lack of milk, joint pain, and persistent lochia after delivery.

Chicken cooked with ginger and wine: one chicken, half a pound of ginger (chopped into small pieces), one pound of Hakka wine, cook and eat immediately.

Function: It can stimulate appetite, invigorate blood circulation, dispel wind and cold, and also promote blood circulation and improve joint metabolism function.