Knee pain during confinement

Giving birth is a very hard thing. Some people think that everything is done after giving birth. In fact, taking care of a child is even harder. Not only do you need to take care of the baby during the confinement period, but you also need to pay more attention to rest. Otherwise, it is easy to get confinement disease. Some women experience leg pain and knee pain during the confinement period. There are usually many reasons for this phenomenon. But what should you do if you have knee pain and leg pain?

What to do if your knees and legs hurt during the confinement period?

1. Soak in hot water to drive away the cold. This method is quite effective in treating wrist pain. Take a basin of hot water, slowly immerse your hands in it for about ten minutes, and the pain in your wrist will be significantly relieved. Soak your hands every day and the hand pain can be cured in three days.

2. Drink brown sugar ginger water for conditioning. Cut the ginger into thin slices, add it to boiling water and boil for about five minutes, add brown sugar, stir, and drink it while it is hot. Then cover your whole body, including your head, with a quilt, and soon you will feel hot and sweaty. If you persist in doing this for about twenty minutes every day for seven days, it can not only drive away the cold and relieve pain, but also improve your cold constitution.

3. Hot compress. If your legs and waist are caught in the cold, you can use hot compresses to relieve the pain. Soak two towels in hot water, wring out the water after fully soaking, and then cover the painful areas of the waist and legs. This can effectively relieve pain and make you feel relaxed.

4. Supplement calcium. The body is weak after childbirth, and a lot of calcium is lost due to breastfeeding, which can cause pain in the waist and legs. At this time, you can drink more bone soup, eat more calcium-rich foods, or take calcium tablets directly to supplement calcium, which can also relieve pain.

Complications that may occur during the confinement period

Complications that may occur during the confinement period include: postpartum anemia, low milk supply, mastitis, metritis, puerperal fever, uterine prolapse, urinary retention, muscle and bone pain, back pain, headache, diarrhea, constipation, etc.

Pregnant women with anemia can eat more high-iron foods, including meat, black glutinous rice porridge, red bean soup, etc. If you have milk engorgement, you can use 1 liang of maltose, 3 qian of dandelion, and 3 qian of fenugreek, stew them together and eat them to promote milk secretion. If you have constipation, you can eat bananas and sesame paste (boiled and seasoned with honey) to promote bowel movements. If you have a fever or feel extremely uncomfortable due to mastitis or endometritis, you must seek medical treatment immediately.

It can be seen that there are many ways to improve leg pain and knee pain during confinement. We should try more methods to relieve our pain, but never put extra burden on our bodies. At the same time, we should also pay attention to preventing other complications during confinement, so that we can have a healthier and more comfortable confinement and reduce the pain caused by confinement.