What should I do if I have a fever 50 days after delivery? How to quickly reduce fever?
Step 1: Stop breastfeeding immediately.
The increase in milk of pregnant women after delivery causes fever. If it is not very serious, the mother can still continue to feed the baby. If rising milk causes fever symptoms similar to mastitis and cold, mothers should stop breastfeeding their babies. Because these inflammatory bacteria will enter the baby through milk, causing the baby to get sick. Therefore, when it comes to what to do when breastfeeding causes fever, mothers must first stop breastfeeding.
Step 2: Massage with hot compress to smooth breast lump.
The root cause of postpartum fever is the increase of milk. As long as this problem is solved, the symptoms of fever will gradually subside, and hot compress or massage can be used to dredge the hard milk lumps. When mom is hot compress, pay attention to avoid sensitive areas such as areola and nipple; Pay attention to dragging the bottom of the breast with one hand and massage from the bottom of the breast to the nipple.
Step 3: Squeeze out the excess milk.
Mother thinks that if the milk is raised well, the excess milk can also be squeezed out. After the hard milk block is dredged, she can gently squeeze out the excess milk by hand or with the help of a breast pump. Under normal circumstances, after the extra milk is squeezed out, mother's high fever goes down.
Step 4: If it is serious, see a doctor as soon as possible.
If the fever caused by the increase of milk in postpartum pregnant women is serious, and it has not been effectively solved through the above three steps, then it is necessary to go to the hospital for relevant examination. The doctor will prescribe some antipyretics for you during lactation, and pregnant women must not go to the drugstore to buy some medicines themselves.
How to treat puerperal fever?
The treatment of puerperal fever generally requires routine hematuria examination, because it is necessary to rule out whether other diseases and wound infections cause puerperal fever. The most important thing is to check the serum acute reaction substances, so that the severity of infection can be diagnosed prematurely. So how to treat puerperal fever? The following small series will discuss with you.
1, the pathogen must be identified, because the identification of pathogens plays a very important role in the diagnosis of puerperal fever infection.
2. After routine disinfection of vagina and cervix, pass a cotton swab through the cervical canal, extract a small amount of cervical secretion for pathogen culture, determine what inflammation is caused, and then treat puerperal fever.
3. Check the secretion smear. If a large number of bacteria appear in the smear, the culture result is negative, which should be anaerobic infection.
4. Now many commercial kits have been developed, which can quickly detect specific antibodies and see if they have puerperal fever.