How long after giving birth can you take a shower? How long after giving birth can you wash your hair?

In our daily life, after giving birth, female friends' physical strength and body are weakened at the same time, and their qi and blood are deficient. They should cultivate themselves more to facilitate the recovery of qi and blood. Washing hair and taking a bath are things we often do. So how long after giving birth can you take a bath? How long after giving birth can you wash your hair?

How long after giving birth can you take a shower?

After the full month, you can take a bath and wash your hair, but don't use too cold water. After washing, you must dry yourself immediately, and then drink a cup of ginger and brown sugar water to sweat and drive away the cold. You can take a bath and wash your hair three days after giving birth (natural delivery), but you must wash with warm water in a room with a temperature above 20 degrees. You must not catch a cold or wind during and after washing. Put on breathable pure cotton clothes immediately after taking a bath.

During the confinement period, you can not only take a bath, but also take a bath frequently.

Here are the reasons:

1. The mother sweats a lot during childbirth, and the metabolism is vigorous after childbirth, and many metabolic wastes need to be discharged from the body. The mother sweats a lot, and lochia is constantly discharged. In addition, the breasts are swollen and dripping after childbirth. If they are not cleaned in time, sweat, milk stains and dirt will accumulate on the skin, which is prone to rashes.

2. After giving birth, the mother will consume a lot of energy, her resistance will be reduced, and she will be more susceptible to skin infection. Therefore, the mother should pay more attention to hygiene than usual, which means that it is very important for the mother to take a bath.

3. Only by taking a bath in time can you clean your body, promote blood circulation, accelerate metabolism, promote the patency of sweat gland pores, benefit the body's metabolism, discharge waste through sweat, regulate the autonomic nervous system, restore physical strength, and relieve muscle and nerve fatigue.

How long after giving birth can you wash your hair?

Generally, you can bathe in warm water at 28-30℃ 3-7 days after delivery. In the hot summer, not washing your hair or bathing for a month is not only unhygienic, but may also cause skin inflammation and prickly heat. Not bathing can also cause perineal wound infection. Use warm water when bathing, and dry your skin immediately after bathing. Do not let your skin carry moisture to avoid catching a cold. In addition, mothers who have had a caesarean section can only bathe after 2 weeks, depending on the recovery of the wound.

Precautions for postpartum women to take a bath

Postpartum bathing must be done in a closed room away from wind. The bathroom should be warm. You can turn on bathroom heating equipment such as bathroom heaters in advance and adjust the indoor temperature to 20℃ before entering. The water temperature should be around 37℃ or slightly hotter. The bathing time should not be too long, 5 to 10 minutes is appropriate.

Avoid sweating profusely when bathing, as excessive sweating can easily cause dizziness, stuffiness, nausea, etc. Avoid contact with cold water to avoid abdominal pain, irregular menstruation, body pain, etc. in the future.

After giving birth, you must take a shower, not a sitting bath. After washing, wipe off the water on your body as soon as possible, put on warm clothes in time before leaving the bathroom to avoid catching a cold or being blown by the wind. Pay attention to oral hygiene and use warm water for mouthwash.

Dry your hair immediately after washing it. Combing your hair with a wooden comb can help promote blood circulation. Dirty hair can damage the hair follicles on the scalp and make the hair fall out easily. Therefore, you should wash and comb your hair regularly.

Summer food, clothing, housing and transportation for pregnant women

Clothing: Do not treat the mother as a patient, wearing more clothes and covering more, just like ordinary people, otherwise the mother will sweat profusely, have a high fever, and will become dehydrated and comatose. The mother's clothes should be changed in time when they are wet with sweat, and prevent the wind from blowing directly on her body when taking a bath.

Food: Childbirth often causes physical weakness due to blood loss, so you should pay attention to supplementing protein and eating iron-rich foods and fruits in your daily life, which can help the uterus recover. The amount of food that mothers eat during the confinement period may be more than before, and try to eat more meals.

Housing: The place where the mother lives should be sunny and well ventilated, because the mother's lochia has not yet been completely discharged during the confinement period, and living in a humid place is easy to cause mold infection. The bed of the mother should be ventilated frequently, and the bedding should be exposed to the sun more often to prevent tissue infection and arthritis.

Do: During the confinement period, mothers should not do heavy work, but they can do some health exercises according to their body conditions. One week after the baby is born, mothers can also go out to relax, find a few close friends, talk about their personal hobbies before pregnancy, and exchange some topics other than children. This can also be regarded as a mental rest during being a mother.