What are the symptoms of postpartum disease

Postpartum disease is actually a disease contracted during the confinement period. It usually manifests itself in symptoms such as sadness, headache, fear of cold, sweating, and joint pain. Therefore, you should pay more attention to physical conditioning and health care during the confinement period to avoid postpartum disease.

1. Excessive sadness , worry, crying in the wind, and depression can easily cause liver qi stagnation, leading to poor blood circulation. Stagnation of qi and blood can easily lead to loss of nutrition, and wind evil can invade accidentally. The clinical symptoms of this postpartum disease are: fear of cold, fear of wind, blindness, blurred vision (astigmatism), pain in the eyes and eye sockets, migraine, trance, and depression. In addition to pain when moving joints, there are also numbness, twitching, swelling and pain.

2. During the confinement period, women's muscles, bones and pores are wide open , their qi and blood are weak, and they are empty inside and outside. They are easily invaded by wind, cold and dampness. The clinical symptoms of this confinement disease are: numbness of limbs, difficulty in flexion and extension, headache, dizziness, swelling, stiffness, poor appetite, little and astringent urination, fear of cold and wind all over the body, sweating, pain when moving joints, aggravated pain when exposed to cold and wind, and good dressing. Severe patients need to wear cotton clothes in hot summer. According to Chinese medicine theory, cold evil has entered the bones. One reason why it is difficult to treat is that women have a natural recovery period of 100 days during the confinement period, and their muscles, 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, muscles and bones, and leading to serious muscle and bone diseases.

3. Anemia caused by excessive blood loss after childbirth and intrauterine blood congestion can cause postpartum diseases such as physical weakness, dizziness, abdominal pain, and low back pain.

4. Women are forbidden to have sexual intercourse during the confinement period . Excessive sexual intercourse will damage the yin and essence. Deficiency of both yin and essence will lead to emptiness of tendons and bones, which allow wind evil to invade. Its main clinical symptoms include fear of cold and wind, and joint pain, as well as heaviness of the whole body, weakness, back pain, and fatigue intolerance. Some patients also have rheumatic and rheumatoid symptoms.

Since postpartum diseases are very difficult to cure, they are only easier to treat during the confinement period.

If a woman falls ill during the confinement period, she must seek timely treatment, otherwise she will suffer from postpartum disease. Although it is not incurable, it is very difficult to treat.