Some people will have night sweats after delivery. Night sweats are actually not good, although sweating is actually good for people. If you have night sweats, you won't say that your body has night sweats for no reason. Explaining what causes night sweats must be relative to the human body, so we need to check it out. What does postpartum night sweats mean?

What does postpartum night sweats mean?

It is a woman's nature to love beauty. Many mothers are anxious about whether they can take a bath or wash their hair after giving birth. Take a shower or wash your hair seven days after giving birth. You can only use a shower, but you must not use a bath. Dry your hair and body after washing to avoid catching cold. In addition, wash vulva frequently and wash feet with warm water.

Night sweats are common in many diseases, such as tuberculosis, so some pregnant women wonder if they have tuberculosis. In fact, postpartum night sweats are very common. If night sweats occur within one week after delivery, it is because there is more water in the maternal body. Through the regulation of endocrine and nerve, sweat glands can maintain their exuberant secretion function and excrete excessive water in the body. It belongs to physiological postpartum night sweats. If night sweats last for a long time, even for several months, it should still be considered as pathological postpartum night sweats, mostly because women lose too much blood during or after delivery, and suddenly blood loss cannot converge the yang, and the yang floats outside, and body fluids are discharged accordingly; Or it is due to qi and blood failure during childbirth, qi and blood failure, and exterior and interior instability, which Chinese medicine believes is caused by yin deficiency.

Pork belly porridge: pork belly 1, astragalus membranaceus15g, ginseng 3g, japonica rice 50-100g, lotus seeds 30g, and appropriate amount of wheat. Wash the pork belly with salt, cook it with wheat until it is half cooked, take out the pork belly and cut it carefully. Chop the medicine and put it in a gauze bag. Tie the mouth, add water to pork belly until cooked. Remove the medicine bag and pork belly, then add rice to cook porridge, add onion when cooked, add appropriate seasoning according to your own taste, drink porridge and eat pork belly.

What is the cause of night sweats?

Night sweat is a very important term in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Many diseases will be manifested as night sweats. The main symptom of night sweats is that when we sleep at night, sweat excretion will increase abnormally, but as our family wakes up from sleep, our sweating will stop. This abnormal excretion state may indicate that there is something wrong with our kidneys. A typical symptom of kidney yin deficiency is night sweats. Because when we sleep at night, the kidneys can't form enough urine.

Taking certain drugs can cause night sweats. Antidepressants are a common drug that can cause night sweats. 8%~22% people take antidepressants and have night sweats. Other antipsychotics are also accompanied by night sweats. Cooling drugs sometimes cause night sweats, such as aspirin and acetaminophen, and sometimes they also cause sweating.