What to do if your hands feel numb after childbirth

Many female friends will experience cold hands and feet in winter and are afraid of the wind. They will also experience headaches, joint pain, and numbness in the limbs after being exposed to the wind. This may be due to postpartum disease. After a woman suffers from postpartum disease, she will only feel warm in winter if she wears more clothes than normal people. I can’t fall asleep without a hot water bottle at night, or my hands and feet are cold all night. Even in summer, we dare not expose our hands and feet.

In life, after women suffer from postpartum disease, they usually feel sore limbs and numbness in joints without doing much. Some women also experience numbness in hands and feet after miscarriage. The numbness of hands caused by postpartum disease is mostly due to poor blood circulation. Chinese medicine usually says that if blood is blocked, it will cause stagnation, and if qi is blocked, it will cause numbness.

The numbness of hands caused by postpartum disease is mostly due to qi stagnation. At this time, you need to eat some qi-replenishing foods. What foods can replenish qi? In fact, there are many foods that can replenish qi, such as chestnuts, hazelnuts, lotus seeds, peanuts, white lentils, yam, lily, soybeans, broad beans, sword beans, cowpeas, peas, red beans, pumpkins, loofahs, mussels, apples, cherries, lychees, red dates, water chestnuts, mushrooms, glutinous rice, japonica rice, millet, barley, buckwheat, crucian carp, loach, herring, octopus, silver carp, eel, shark meat and fins, catfish, mandarin fish, black fish, cuttlefish, anchovy, hairtail, pomfret, yellow croaker, sea bass, eggs, squab, quail, chicken, pheasant, rabbit meat, beef, wild boar meat, mutton, donkey meat, pork, pig brain, pig kidney, sheep tripe, vole meat, animal heart, frog, sea cucumber, etc.

When women experience numbness in their hands after giving birth, they can first take dietary supplements and then use Chinese medicine massage to improve the numbness. Physical therapy and drug therapy can be performed if dietary therapy has no obvious effect, or both can be performed at the same time. It is best for female friends to take good rest and avoid catching cold during the confinement period or after a miscarriage.