Matters needing attention in summer confinement
Instructor: Huang Xiaolin, chief physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Chaoyang Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
It is very hot in summer, so it is difficult for mother and her family to have children and confinement in summer. Some old customs say that during confinement, it is necessary to stay up late without taking a bath, not opening the window for ventilation, and cover it to make the mother and baby healthy ... Experts remind pregnant women who are confined in summer to pay attention to room hygiene, personal hygiene and healthy eating, and abandon some traditional concepts.
Director Huang Xiaolin reminded that it is hot in summer and people are prone to sweating. Mothers should pay special attention to postpartum hygiene. First of all, in terms of environment, it is necessary to ensure that the parturient lives in a comfortable, quiet, bright and clean environment, with room temperature at 22-24℃ and humidity at about 55%. The room must be ventilated. It is very hot in summer. It is best to ventilate for 20 or 30 minutes in the afternoon or in the morning and evening, but it should be noted that it is best for mother and baby to change rooms during ventilation. In addition, air conditioners or fans are widely used in families in summer, and they must not be blown directly at the mother and baby.
In terms of maternal personal hygiene, women can generally take a bath three days after delivery, provided that their physical strength permits, but if it is a caesarean section, they must wait until the incision is completely healed and the stitches are removed before taking a bath; You can scrub your body with warm water before. Maternal bathing time should not be too long, preferably within 5 to 10 minutes. The water temperature should not be too hot or too cold, preferably around 45℃. Do not take a cold bath in summer. Pay attention to pregnant women can't take a shower. Some elderly people think it is wrong for pregnant women not to brush their teeth. You know, pregnant women's teeth are more vulnerable to bacterial damage. Pregnant women are advised to brush their teeth and rinse their mouths with warm water every morning and evening. In addition, maternal clothes, especially underwear, must be changed frequently, and menstrual pads should also be changed frequently.
In addition, in terms of diet and lifestyle, pregnant women must ensure the regularity of life, ensure adequate sleep, have a refreshing diet, and do not eat irritating food and cold drinks. Maternal women can exercise properly when they are confinement, but they cannot stand or squat for a long time.
Ten questions about confinement (1)
It is often said that confinement can be used to recuperate physique. Is that really the case? How to adjust? How to confinement? How to supplement according to different constitutions? These problems often plague the lying-in women. We specially list the top ten confinement problems, which are answered by professional Chinese medicine practitioners.
First, why do you want to confinement after childbirth? What's the purpose? Can you change your constitution?
Due to excessive bleeding, sweating, backache and abdominal pain during childbirth, the parturient is very weak, and her blood and bones are very weak. At this time, she is prone to cold attacks and needs a period of rest. Therefore, she must be confined to confinement after delivery to recover. The purpose of confinement is to do proper exercise and rest, proper food supplement and diet therapy during this period, which can restore the size of uterus before delivery, and after conditioning, qi and blood can be restored, even better than before, which will gradually change the bad physique during this period.
What are the basic principles of confinement?
1 Cautiously cold temperature
With the change of climate and living environment temperature and humidity, the clothes worn by pregnant women and the electrical equipment used indoors should be adjusted appropriately. The indoor temperature is about 25 ~ 26 degrees Celsius and the humidity is about 50% ~ 60%. Wear long sleeves, trousers and socks to avoid catching cold or catching cold, or being attacked by wind, cold and moisture.
2 combine work and rest.
Moderate labor and rest are very helpful to the discharge of lochia, the recovery of bones and muscles and the recovery of the body. In the early postpartum period, when the parturient feels weak, dizzy and tired, she must stay in bed for more than half an hour. When her physical strength gradually recovers, the time can be slightly longer, and the time is still limited to 1 to 2 hours, so as to avoid backache, backache, leg pain, knee and ankle pain caused by standing or sitting for a long time.
3. Clean frequently.
Hair and body should be washed frequently and kept clean to avoid bacterial infection and inflammation.
Step 4 Adjust your diet
There is no difference in the first three items, but there are differences in personal physique in diet, and there should be differences; Moreover, postpartum lochia, poor lactation, or diseases such as colds, headaches, broken mouths, itchy skin and stomachache must be changed. In ancient times, because of the poor environment, poor living conditions and no electrical equipment, the regulations were strict, and there was a limit of not washing your hair and taking a bath for one month. Modern people don't have to work so hard, but the diet of confinement is mainly warming up, so it is better to ask a doctor to adjust it according to personal physique.
Do I have to add wine to the dishes for confinement?
The cooking of confinement should be cooked with ginger slices, because ginger has the function of warming the palace and activating the activities; The function of wine is to promote blood circulation and help discharge lochia. If lochia is clean, food is still cooked with wine, which may lead to uterine contraction and endless leaching.
Four people greatly supplemented their vitality. Why are they forbidden to take it during confinement?
Ginseng tonifies qi and stops bleeding. During the hospitalization after giving birth to a child, lochia is being discharged. If you take ginseng (Korean red ginseng), it will make the blood halo less and the lochia difficult to discharge, which will lead to blood clots stagnation in the uterus, causing abdominal pain, and in severe cases, placental abruption is incomplete and massive bleeding. So be sure to wait until the second or third week after delivery, when the blood clot is gone, and then take ginseng tea.
The influence of five seasons on maternal tonic
Because of the great temperature difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter, the maternal diet must be adjusted, otherwise there will be side effects. Generally, the traditional confinement diet is warm and suitable for winter. Ginger and wine can be slightly reduced in spring and autumn. If it is hot in summer, you can cook food without wine, but don't use all ginger slices, about 2 ~ 3 slices at a time. (continued)
Ten questions about confinement (part two)
What is the principle of confinement for women with different constitutions?
According to women's physical attributes and their applicable foods, the analysis is as follows:
1 cold constitution
Features: pale face, aversion to cold or cold limbs, light mouth without thirst, loose stool, frequent urination, clear phlegm, thin nose, white tongue coating, and easy to catch a cold.
Applicable food
Maternal women with this constitution have stomach deficiency and fear of cold, cold hands and feet, and poor blood circulation. They should eat warmer food, such as sesame chicken, roast chicken, siwu soup, siwu chicken or shiquan Dabu soup. In principle, they should not be too greasy to avoid diarrhea. Eating warm food or medicine can promote blood circulation and achieve the purpose of supplementing qi and blood, so that the bones and muscles are not easy to sprain and the back is not easy to ache.
Avoid cold fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon, papaya, grapefruit, pear, carambola, orange, tomato, cantaloupe and so on.
Suitable for eating litchi, longan, apple, strawberry, cherry and grape.
2. Hot constitution
Features: red face and red eyes, fear of heat, hot limbs or hands and feet, dry mouth or bitter taste, dry stool or constipation, yellow and thick phlegm, short and red urine, foul smell in Huang Chi, yellow or dry tongue coating, red tongue, easy to break, and prone to acne or hemorrhoids.
Applicable food
Sesame chicken should not be eaten more; When cooking chicken with sesame oil, reduce the amount of ginger and fragrant oil and use less wine. Food should be nourishing, such as yam chicken, black glutinous rice, fish soup, sparerib soup and so on. Vegetables such as loofah, wax gourd and lotus root can reduce fire, or eat green vegetable tofu soup to reduce fire. People with backache can cook pig kidney soup with fried Eucommia ulmoides to avoid getting angry.
It is not advisable to eat more.
Litchi, longan, apple.
Have some.
Oranges, strawberries, cherries and grapes.
3 Neutral Constitution
It is characterized by neither hot nor cold, not particularly dry mouth, and no special and frequent diseases.
Applicable food
Diet choice is relatively easy, and you can eat food supplements and medicine supplements alternately. There are no special problems. If you have dry mouth, bitter taste or pimples after filling, stop filling medicine, eat some vegetables mentioned above, or drink a small glass of iced pure Liu Ding juice or pure grape juice.
What are the common complications after delivery?
Postpartum anemia, galactorrhea, mastitis, metritis, muscle pain, back pain, headache, diarrhea, constipation, etc. Anemia pregnant women can eat more high-iron foods, including meat, black glutinous rice porridge, red bean soup and so on. If the milk is increased, you can use 1 maltose, 3 money dandelion and 3 money cowherb to stew food, which can promote milk ejection. Constipation can eat bananas and sesame sauce (boiled with honey to taste), which can promote defecation. If you have a fever or extreme discomfort due to mastitis or metritis, you must seek medical attention immediately.
What are the causes of postpartum muscle soreness?
Because the postpartum baby sleeps while sucking milk, the feeding time is long, and the mother keeps sitting for too long, many babies are upside down day and night, crying endlessly at night, and even being held by their parents all night, so they hurt their backs, elbows and wrists for a month. To avoid these aching bones and muscles, mothers should pay attention to their posture when holding their children, and their backs should have places to rely on; Rest more, walk less, and get out of bed for no more than 1 hour. You can stew Eucommia ulmoides Zhushen decoction, and eat Shiquan Dabu decoction (including Eucommia ulmoides and Dipsacus) after lochia is clean, which has a good effect on relieving bone and muscle pain.