Postpartum disease, confinement care, is it true?

There is a saying among the older generation that postpartum diseases can be cured by confinement period. If you have postpartum diseases, you can recover by confinement period. Although there is no definite basis, many people have cured some postpartum diseases in this way. It is most important to have a good confinement period.

1. It turns out that during the postpartum period , the mother is very physically and mentally tired. In the later stages of pregnancy, the mother is overly "burdened" and has difficulty in moving. Before delivery, the mother is easily nervous, fearful, and anxious. During delivery, due to uterine contractions, the mother cannot get enough rest during the entire delivery process and is very tired. After delivery, the mother has to feed and change diapers for the baby at night and take care of the baby during the day, and it is difficult for the already tired body to recover immediately. In addition, the body's endocrine function is in a period of "turbulence" and "reorganization" after childbirth, the body's immune function is reduced, local wounds have not healed, and lochia has not yet disappeared. Under this condition of poor systemic and local resistance, it is very easy to get sick. If the mother does not pay attention to her body care after delivery, and is not careful about the temperature (it is easy to catch a cold when changing diapers or feeding at night in winter; and catching a cold in summer when trying to stay cool), in this case of insufficient vital energy, it is easier for her to catch a cold and be invaded by pathogens and become ill. Therefore, there is a certain scientific reason why some elderly people attach great importance to "confinement period".

2. However, the statement that "diseases contracted during the confinement period can only be cured during the confinement period" lacks sufficient scientific basis. When a person gets sick, the treatment measures are nothing more than medicine (including surgery), rest and nutrition. In fact, after a person falls ill, unless he is seriously ill and bedridden, he generally only focuses on drug treatment (taking medicine, injections) and tends to neglect rest and nutrition. However, some diseases, especially for those who are weak, can be cured through sufficient bed rest and good nutritional supplements, and "confinement month" can completely achieve this, which makes some elderly people mistakenly believe that "confinement month" can cure certain diseases.

3. In fact, there are many diseases, such as bacterial infectious diseases, which are difficult to cure by rest and nutrition alone. They must be treated with appropriate drugs to recover. This is why the saying "Diseases contracted during the confinement period must be cured during the confinement period" is not scientific enough.