The symptoms of postpartum wind, I understand everything after reading this!

Some women will experience symptoms such as joint pain and limb numbness even when lying in bed after giving birth. This is called postpartum wind. In fact, postpartum wind-cold has many symptoms, which are introduced in detail below.

1. The whole body is afraid of cold and wind, and there are sweats. There is pain in moving joints. The pain is aggravated by cold and wind. It is better to wear clothes. Severe patients need to wear cotton clothes in hot summer. According to Chinese medicine theory, this is "cold evil entering the bones." This is because the doors of the muscles, bones and skin of the mother are wide open during the confinement period, resulting in weak qi and blood, emptiness inside and outside, and the accidental invasion of wind, cold and dampness. During the 100-day natural recovery period of confinement, the tendons, 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 and tendons and bones, leading to serious tendon and bone diseases, which is why this disease is difficult to cure.

2. Feeling heavy and weak all over, with backache, sleepiness, pain, and fatigue intolerance. Some patients also have rheumatic and rheumatoid symptoms, fear of cold, fear of wind, and joint pain. Mothers are forbidden to have sexual intercourse during the confinement period, because sexual intercourse damages the yin and essence. Deficiency of both yin and essence leads to weakness of tendons and bones, which allows wind evil to invade.

3. Pain in all joints of the body, headache or local pain. Some patients are afraid of cold and wind, feel unwell and edema when it is cloudy and rainy. According to Chinese medicine theory, "blood deficiency causes wind", which means that the blood cannot nourish the muscles and bones and causes a kind of wind, which is also called rheumatoid arthritis. During the confinement period, mothers tend to be irritable, easily develop mental fire, think too much, and secretly consume yin blood. The former mental fire can damage yin and cause internal wind, while the latter secretly consumes yin blood and generates internal heat, leading to dryness of blood.

4. In addition to fear of cold, fear of wind, and pain when moving joints, there are also numbness, convulsions, swelling and pain. This is because the postpartum mother's depression can easily cause liver qi stagnation, leading to poor circulation of qi and blood. Stagnation of qi and blood can easily lead to loss of nutrition and accidental invasion of wind evil.

Therefore, mothers should pay more attention to rest after giving birth, rest assured during the confinement period, and regulate their bodies. They should avoid being attacked by wind and cold, which may lead to symptoms of postpartum wind. The main symptoms of postpartum wind are soreness, numbness, heaviness of limb joints, aversion to wind and cold, difficulty in joint movement, and even swollen joints. If the disease does not heal for a long time, muscle atrophy and joint deformity may be seen. The treatment is similar to that of rheumatoid arthritis and it is difficult to cure. All pregnant women should pay special attention to maintenance and conditioning during the postpartum period.