These traditional ideas about how to scientifically confinement in summer must be abandoned.

Yu Yue has an answer: babies are born in summer, and it is difficult for mothers to sit on the moon.

Because summer is sultry, it is easy to make people feel irritable. If you add n "no" to your mother-in-law's mouth, for example, you can't wash your hair and take a bath, you can't turn on the air conditioner, you can't open the door and open the window, can you still live a good life?

So are these taboos scientific? Let's take a look at how to scientifically confinement in summer!

1, can I take a shower and wash my hair in summer?

Scientific statement: Generally, you can take a bath with warm water of 28-30℃ 3-7 days after delivery. In hot summer, not washing your hair and bathing for a month is not only unsanitary, but also may cause skin inflammation and prickly heat; Not taking a bath can also infect perineal wounds. Use warm water when taking a bath, dry it thoroughly immediately after washing, and don't let the skin carry moisture to avoid catching cold. In addition, it takes 2 weeks for the mother of caesarean section to take a bath, depending on the recovery of the wound.

2. Can I eat cold drinks in summer confinement?

Scientific statement: Postpartum body is deficient in qi and blood, so it is necessary to eat more warm food to facilitate the recovery of qi and blood. If you eat cold or cold food after delivery, it will not be conducive to the enrichment of qi and blood, which will easily lead to digestive and absorption dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, and is also not conducive to the discharge of lochia and the removal of blood stasis. Moreover, raw and cold food without high temperature disinfection may contain bacteria, which may easily lead to gastroenteritis after eating. During confinement in summer, if pregnant women are sweaty and thirsty, they can eat mung bean soup, tomatoes and some fruits to cool off the heat, so stay away from ice cream, ice cream and frozen drinks.

3. Do you want to cover it in summer? "

Scientific statement: Some new mothers close doors and windows or cover Baotou after delivery, which actually seriously hinders the distribution of body temperature and easily leads to heatstroke. Because the indoor temperature is very high in summer, once again, the heat inside the human body cannot be discharged, and maternal heatstroke is not conducive to postpartum recovery.

4. Can I eat fruit in summer confinement?

Scientific statement: fruit contains a lot of vitamins, which is of great benefit to the mental recovery of new mothers; Water, cellulose and pectin in fruits can prevent constipation; Eating some fruits properly after delivery in summer can also prevent heatstroke. So don't eat particularly cold fruits, such as pears and watermelons, for 3-4 days after delivery. In the following days, eat 2-3 fruits every day. Don't heat or leave the fruit for a long time, it will lose its nutrients.

5. Can I use air conditioning in summer confinement?

Scientific statement: confinement in summer should avoid postpartum heatstroke caused by excessive indoor temperature. If the indoor temperature is too high, air conditioning should be used properly, and the room temperature can generally be reduced to 25-28℃.

6, maternal summer food, clothing, housing and transportation

Clothes: Don't treat the parturient as a patient, put on more clothes and cover them like ordinary people, otherwise the parturient will sweat profusely, have a high fever and have symptoms of dehydration and coma. Maternal clothes should be changed in time when sweating, and the wind should be prevented from blowing directly on you when taking a bath.

Food: Giving birth to a child often leads to weakness due to blood loss. Therefore, we should pay attention to supplement protein in our daily life, and eat more foods and fruits rich in iron, which will help the uterus recover. Maternal women may eat more than before during confinement, and try to divide meals as much as possible.

Live: The place where the parturient lives should be sunny and ventilated, because the puerperal lochia is not exhausted, and living in a humid place is easy to cause mold infection. The bed of the lying-in woman should be ventilated frequently, and the bedding should be exposed to the sun to prevent tissue infection and arthritis.

Ok: During the second month, the pregnant women should not do heavy work, but they can do some health exercises according to their physical condition. A week after the baby, the mother can go out to relax, find some intimate friends, talk about personal hobbies before pregnancy, and exchange some topics other than children. This is also a mental rest during the period of being a mother.