How can we determine whether it is postpartum wind? Experts teach you how to diagnose

Women will experience a series of symptoms after giving birth, such as back pain, knee pain, dizziness, headache, etc. These may be symptoms of postpartum wind, but it cannot be determined that it is postpartum wind, because the judgment of postpartum wind requires a series of basis.

1. Postpartum headache: Postpartum wind with headache as the main symptom is called "postpartum headache". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is due to excessive blood loss after childbirth, while Western medicine believes that it is related to changes in hormone secretion.

2. Postpartum body aches: The mother experiences joint pain or body aches after delivery, but there is no redness or swelling on the skin surface of the painful area. This is called postpartum wind, postpartum body pain or postpartum joint pain.

3. Extreme weakness after childbirth: Hypopituitarism (also known as "Sheehan's disease") is caused by various lesions of the pituitary gland or hypothalamus that affect the endocrine function of the pituitary gland. This disease is more common in women and is often related to pituitary ischemic necrosis caused by postpartum hemorrhage. The main symptom of postpartum wind is extreme weakness after delivery.

4. Deficiency of Qi and blood: Qi deficiency syndrome is a weakness syndrome caused by insufficient Qi in the human body, which leads to the decline of the basic functions of Qi. The "qi" here refers to the qi of the whole body, and also includes the qi of the internal organs and tissues. It is one of the main symptoms of postpartum wind.

Warm reminder: if you experience unexplained sweating, physical fatigue, panic or palpitations, sudden loss of appetite, etc., you should suspect the possibility of postpartum wind. When the condition is serious, one cannot sleep without a quilt even in the hottest days of summer. Women who give birth at an advanced age, have difficult labor, undergo cesarean sections, or have multiple miscarriages are more likely to suffer from postpartum stroke. Symptoms usually appear 8 weeks after delivery. If left untreated, they may last for months or even years, so you must pay attention.

Differential diagnosis:

1. Bi syndrome

The pathogenesis of the exogenous wind-cold type of postpartum wind is similar to that of arthralgia, and the clinical manifestations are also similar, and the disease sites are all in the joints of the limbs. However, postpartum wind only occurs in the puerperium and is related to the puerperal physiology, while arthralgia can occur at any time. If the postpartum body pain does not heal for a long time and lingers until after the postpartum period, it is not this disease and should be treated as arthralgia.

2. Impotence

Both diseases are located in the limbs and joints, but postpartum wind is characterized by pain, heaviness, and difficulty in flexion and extension of the limbs and joints, and sometimes numbness or swelling, but no symptoms of paralysis. Paralysis is characterized by limb weakness and muscle atrophy, and the limb joints are generally not painful.