What should I do if I have a cough after a cesarean section? Introducing scientific therapy!

For various reasons, more and more women choose cesarean section. Cesarean section has certain advantages, but also obvious disadvantages, such as easy infection. Cesarean section is also more harmful to women. Some new mothers will have severe cough after cesarean section, which may be caused by cold body. So what should we do at this time?

1. What to do if you have a cold cough after childbirth

The treatment principle of postpartum cold cough is to conduct syndrome differentiation and treatment based on the characteristics of blood loss and body fluid damage, internal blood stasis, and multiple deficiencies and blood stasis, in line with the principle of "do not be restricted to the postpartum period, and do not forget the postpartum period", combined with the condition of the disease. That is, postpartum weakness should be treated mainly by replenishing qi and blood, but the use of medication must be prevented from stagnating or aiding the evil. There is a lot of blood stasis after childbirth, and the method of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis should be used. However, the promotion of blood circulation and removal of blood stasis after childbirth must be supplemented with nourishing blood, so as to eliminate evil without hurting the body, and remove blood stasis without hurting the blood. When choosing prescriptions and medicines, you must take into account Qi and blood. To relieve depression, do not be too dissipating, to promote digestion, you must also support the spleen, to dispel cold, do not be too warm or dry, to clear heat, do not use too many bitter and cold medicines.

After giving birth, the mother's resistance will generally decrease, and she will be more susceptible to catching cold. At this time, the upper respiratory tract is most susceptible to infection. Once she catches a cold, fever is naturally inevitable. In addition, she is often accompanied by symptoms such as nasal congestion, sore throat, cough or difficulty breathing. Although colds are not a disease specific to the postpartum period, they cannot be ignored by mothers.

You should increase your daily water intake, change your eating habits, and change your diet from "tonic" to "light". In addition, you can also take some mild cold medicine. If there is still no improvement, you can take cold medicine and antibiotics under the guidance of a doctor. In addition, you should pay attention to the ventilation of the postpartum rest room and avoid contact with people with respiratory infections.

2. Rinse your mouth with concentrated salt water

If a mother experiences sore and itchy throat in the early stages of a cold, she can gargle with concentrated salt water to achieve relief. Put salt and water in a cup. You can put more salt. Then rinse your mouth with salt water every ten minutes. You will see the effect after about ten times. At the same time, drinking more chicken soup can help postpartum women treat symptoms such as colds and nasal congestion, and chicken soup has a certain effect on clearing respiratory viruses. Therefore, mothers who are in confinement can drink more to prevent colds.

3. Massage

Heat a metal spoon in hot water, then place it on the cold points on the surface of your palm to massage. If you feel something abnormal in a certain part, you can focus on massaging that part. After massaging for a few minutes, you can stimulate the area with a spoon soaked in cold water. For patients with mild colds and coughs, massage about eight times will generally be effective. In addition, the cold acupoint on the palm is located between the left thumb and index finger, similar to the position of the tiger's mouth, and the area below the second joint of the right thumb.

After knowing this, I believe most mothers already know what to do if they catch a cold or cough during the confinement period, and also know some ways to deal with it. However, these methods can only treat patients whose colds are not so serious. If the patient's condition is more serious, the baby needs to be weaned as soon as possible and then the mother should be sent to the hospital for treatment.