Lochia dark red

Women will secrete lochia after giving birth, which usually lasts for several cycles. The duration of secretion is different for each person. Lochia usually contains red, blood-like secretions. Only when it is discharged cleanly can the uterus be protected from getting sick. However, many people have such lochia every day, which makes people feel particularly worried and afraid that there may be problems. Let's take a look at the precautions during the discharge of lochia to avoid getting sick.

Basic care:

① After delivery, you must stay in bed and rest. If you have a lot of lochia, you should pay attention to vaginal hygiene and wash the vulva with warm water or 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution every day. Use soft and disinfected toilet paper, and change menstrual pads and underwear frequently to reduce the chance of invasion of evil toxins.

② The paper pad used should be soft and disinfected strictly to prevent infection.

③ Rest in bed, avoid emotional excitement, keep a good mood, comfort the patient, eliminate mental worries, and pay special attention to unexpected mental stimulation.

④ Keep indoor air circulating to remove foul air, but pay attention to keeping warm and avoid catching cold. If you have blood heat syndrome, you should not wear too warm clothes.

⑤ When the lochia decreases and the body tends to recover, the mother can be encouraged to get up and move around appropriately, which will help the circulation of qi and blood and the discharge of residual turbidity in the uterus.

⑥ Sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited within 50 days after delivery.

⑦ Improve nutrition, eat a light diet, and avoid raw, cold, spicy, greasy, and indigestible foods. To prevent warm food from encouraging evil, eat more fresh vegetables. If the patient has qi deficiency, he can be given chicken soup, longan soup, etc. If the blood is hot, you can eat fruits such as pears, oranges, and watermelons, but they should be taken warm.

⑧ Patients with blood heat, blood stasis, and liver depression turning into heat should increase their intake of beverages, such as lotus root juice, pear juice, orange juice, and watermelon juice, to clear away heat and remove blood stasis.

⑨For patients with spleen deficiency and weak qi, they can add warm tonic foods such as mutton and dog meat in the cold season. Patients with liver and kidney yang deficiency can increase the intake of yin-nourishing foods, such as soft-shelled turtle and tortoise meat.