Postpartum relaxin causes joint pain. What to do if you have joint pain all over your body after childbirth?

Pregnancy and childbirth are things that most girls have to go through, and postpartum care is also very important. Some pregnant women will experience joint pain after childbirth, which is also a relatively normal phenomenon. So, does postpartum relaxin cause joint pain? What should I do if I have joint pain all over my body after childbirth?

During pregnancy, women's hormones will change. In the late pregnancy, relaxin will be secreted, which will relax the muscles and ligaments in the body and facilitate childbirth. Postpartum women will suffer from deficiency and blood stasis due to weak qi and blood. If they do not pay attention to proper maintenance after delivery, it may cause arthritis and joint pain. After giving birth, mothers should pay attention to their body care and keep warm at ordinary times, and joint pain may recover. After giving birth, mothers should mainly rest in bed and do not get out of bed too early to exercise. They should pay attention to keeping warm and avoid catching cold. They can buy calcium tablets suitable for mothers under the guidance of a doctor, or eat foods rich in protein and calcium such as bone soup. The main reason for postpartum joint pain in the hands and feet is that the placenta secretes a large amount of estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy. In particular, estrogen will cause some water to accumulate in the body, and the water in the joint capsule will also increase accordingly. Therefore, expectant mothers will have a feeling of swollen joints, and in severe cases, they will feel pain. After delivery, the placenta has been delivered out of the body and the hormone level will drop rapidly, but it will take some time for the water to be discharged. In addition, the body secretes relaxin during pregnancy. After delivery, the joint toughness is still in a relaxed state, and new mothers will experience symptoms of joint discomfort.

The joint pain in women after childbirth is mainly due to the secretion of relaxin in the body during pregnancy and childbirth, which is conducive to the opening of the pelvis and the smooth delivery of the fetus. Therefore, joint pain in a period of time shortly after childbirth is a normal physiological phenomenon after childbirth. Especially for women with weak constitution and sensitive to pain, such symptoms will be more obvious. Generally, through careful conditioning, attention to rest, and increased dietary nutrition, these uncomfortable symptoms will gradually disappear after the recovery period. Although it is not recommended for women to stay in bed for too long during the postpartum recovery period, they should not stand or sit for too long when doing moderate activities. The exercise at this stage should be moderate and should not make the body feel tired. When the local joint pain is more obvious, some physical therapy methods such as baking, hot compress and massage can be used to relieve it. If the joint pain is more obvious, you can also go to a regular Chinese medicine hospital for treatment, and use cupping, acupuncture, auxiliary massage, massage and other Chinese medicine therapies under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner. Regular Chinese medicine can play a relatively good therapeutic effect in eliminating the joint pain caused by postpartum rheumatism.

Different treatment methods should be adopted according to different diseases. If it is caused by infection, different antibacterial, antifungal or antiviral drugs should be used according to the infected microorganisms. When acute inflammation occurs, you need to rest in bed, identify the pathogen, select antibiotics according to the pathogen, and you can also choose corresponding medicines for bathing. Patients with chronic diseases should pay attention to eliminating the cause. In terms of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, specialists should prescribe medicines according to syndrome differentiation, and must distinguish between cold, heat, deficiency and excess in order to prescribe the right medicine. For example, the type of qi stagnation and blood stasis should be used to promote qi and activate blood circulation, the type of damp heat should be used to clear heat and remove dampness, and the type of cold and dampness should be used to warm the meridians and remove dampness. In addition to taking Chinese medicine orally, you can use Chinese medicine decoctions or concentrated solutions to retain enema, or use Chinese medicine suppositories. Symptoms of gynecological diseases, in daily life, if you have gynecological diseases, you must go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment. You can choose Chinese medicine treatment or Western medicine treatment during treatment. However, during the treatment process, you must cooperate with the doctor, do not eat spicy and irritating foods, and take medicine under the guidance of the doctor.

In fact, this is a common problem for postpartum mothers. They often experience joint popping, morning stiffness of fingers, weak hand muscles, and even cannot open mineral water bottles. Joint popping includes physiological popping and pathological popping. Physiological joint popping is a normal physiological phenomenon. Normal adult joints often make crisp sounds when they are in a static state for a certain period of time and are suddenly stretched or flexed and extended. Pathological joint popping is caused by joint damage and structural changes, which lead to ligament relaxation. When exercising, the friction of the above tissues will cause popping.