How to remedy knee pain after confinement?

During the confinement period, new mothers need to receive careful care from their family members, and receive all-round care, including diet, hygiene, etc. This is because women are very weak during the confinement period and often suffer from various confinement diseases. Some people will experience knee pain after the confinement period. This problem should be taken seriously, and the following methods can be used to help remedy it.

How to remedy knee pain after confinement?

Confinement after childbirth, confinement after childbirth, it lasts for a whole month. For ordinary people, a month passes in the blink of an eye. But most new mothers said that the days of confinement seemed like years, and they were always looking forward to the day when they would “come out of the mountain”. Why do new mothers find the confinement period so difficult? There are both psychological and physiological reasons.

Firstly, staying at home every day can easily lead to wild thoughts and bad mood; secondly, it is easy for the body to have problems during the confinement period, with pain here and there. There are many mothers who suffer from back pain, leg pain, and knee pain. However, if these pains are not treated in time, be careful of postpartum diseases! Many people suffer from back pain after postpartum period. What should they do?

Folk remedies for postpartum knee pain

1. Soak your feet in hot water with mugwort leaves

You can soak your feet in hot water with mugwort, apply hot compress to the uncomfortable parts, keep warm at ordinary times, maintain a regular work and sleep schedule, eat regularly, walk appropriately, and strengthen your physical fitness. In addition, you can use Bu Zhong Yi Qi Granules to enhance your resistance and maintain it for 3-6 months. Rely on care, not treatment.

2. Danshen Baizhu Decoction

You can first go to the pharmacy to buy some Codonopsis pilosula, Angelica sinensis, frankincense, myrrh, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Achyranthes bidentata, Eucommia ulmoides, earthworm, papaya and Corydalis yanhusuo, as well as white peony root, Cibotium barometz and processed Strychnos nux vomica, Dipsacus asper, Poria cocos, liquorice, Codonopsis pilosula and Atractylodes macrocephala. None of the above medicinal materials can be missing. So put the medicinal materials into the pot, add 4 bowls of water, simmer on low heat for 120 minutes, until the water is reduced to 1 bowl.

3. Brown sugar egg soup

Prepare 5 grams of prayer flowers, safflower, sophora japonica, rehmannia glutinosa, vitex truncatum, eggs and brown sugar. Add water to cooked rehmannia, safflower, sophora japonica, praeparata and vitex and boil for 20 minutes, then add eggs and cook until done. Put some brown sugar in a bowl and then pour in the medicinal soup and eggs, then you can eat it.

For hot compress treatment, prepare some coarse salt, bran and pulp residue. Put the coarse salt into the pot and fry it for 40 minutes, then add the bran and fry until it turns yellow, then sprinkle the pulp residue into the pot, and finally wrap them with a piece of cotton cloth. The patient lies flat and places cotton pads on the affected area. The first application time can be longer, 4-5 hours is fine, and you will feel pain the first time, but it will gradually get better.

4. Apply mugwort and ginger

Applying mugwort and ginger can effectively dispel cold and dampness and reduce liver fire. Preparation method: 60 grams of mugwort leaves, 15 grams of ginger, 3 green onions, and appropriate amount of liquor. First, mash the mugwort leaves, ginger, and raw onions together, wrap them in a cloth, and then dip them in hot wine to apply to the affected area.

Pay attention to nutrition and calcium supplementation

After all, giving birth is something that consumes a lot of mother's physical energy. The hormone levels in the mother's body will undergo new changes. Therefore, after giving birth, you should pay attention to supplementing nutrition so that the body can recover as soon as possible. In addition, proper supplementation of calcium can not only relieve the symptoms of joint pain, but is also excellent for babies who are breastfed.