Three ancestral secret recipes for postpartum supplementation may harm the body

　　Many pregnant women think Postpartum You should have a good rest and a good night's sleep, so you often lie on your back in bed and take a lot of supplements. Especially those with elderly people at home will always use some traditional methods in their postpartum diet, which will harm the body. Let’s take a look at which nutritional supplements can harm the body after childbirth.

　　Ancestral Teaching 1: To replenish your body after childbirth, drink more ginger and vinegar juice

　　More than two months after Ms. Lin's cesarean section, the lochia was still dripping, and her lower abdomen was often bloated and painful. After examination, the doctor found that her Uterus Incomplete involution, combined with pelvic infection. After further questioning, it turned out that she drank homemade ginger juice almost every day to "replenish the body and dispel wind" after giving birth. She heard from the older generation that pig's trotters and ginger vinegar can promote lactation, and she ate a lot of pig's trotters and ginger vinegar. At the same time, there is no shortage of nutritional supplements such as angelica root, velvet antlers, and ginseng. She never imagined that it was these eating habits that were regarded as "ancestral teachings" that would cause her to suffer a lot after giving birth.

　　Doctor’s comment: The folk habit of drinking ginger juice and eating pig’s trotters and ginger vinegar after childbirth seems to have been a “common practice” for a long time. Ginger vinegar, ginger juice, ginger stir-fried vegetables and rice, ginger soup, ginger water for bathing and hair washing, etc. It can be said that "it is not happy without ginger" during the confinement period.

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is warm and pungent in nature, and can dispel wind and relieve external symptoms, dispel cold, and promote the discharge of lochia. However, because ginger is pungent and warm, it can promote blood circulation. Eating too much will increase bloody lochia, make it inexhaustible to discharge, affect the repair of the endometrium, cause postpartum weakness, and even cause anemia . Therefore, eating ginger or ginger products after delivery should be done at the right time, in the right amount, and in moderation. The so-called right time means that when the color of lochia turns to light yellow or white, it is the ideal time to eat ginger or ginger products; the right amount means half a bowl of ginger soup or a bowl of ginger vinegar the next day, and it is also emphasized that strong ginger juice is not suitable. Moderation means that the drinking time should not be too long, generally about ten days is enough. If there is a sudden increase in lochia or the color turns bright red during this period, the dosage should be reduced as appropriate or the use should be suspended.

　　If the body is weak and cold after childbirth, it is not a bad idea to eat some supplementary foods. For the selection of tonic foods, the principle is to appropriately select some medicinal and edible foods with nourishing effects on the basis of balanced and sufficient nutrition, such as ginger, brown sugar, sesame, mutton, eel and other warm foods. However, the timing and amount of food intake should be paid attention to in the above selection, otherwise it will be counterproductive. As for whether and when supplements such as angelica root, velvet antler, and ginseng can be taken to nourish qi and blood, it should be taken under the guidance of a doctor according to each person's body constitution.