Postpartum food indigestion

　　During the postpartum period, the internal organs of the puerperal women are inherently weak, the spleen function has not recovered, and if the diet is irregular or attacked by cold and dampness, damp-heat pathogenic factors, the spleen and stomach can be trapped, and the food and grains can flow down into the intestines. It can also be due to inherent weakness of the spleen and kidney, injury to Qi during labor, poor transportation and transformation, or long-term spleen deficiency leading to kidney injury, and the fire not generating the soil.

　　1. Food indigestion After childbirth, the diet is irregular, cold food is not careful, seriously injures the spleen and stomach, and the food and grains are mixed and poured down.

　　2. Cold-dampness Spleen deficiency dislikes dampness, cold-dampness is internalized, and the food and grains flow down into the intestines.

　　3. Damp-heat The spleen function has not recovered after childbirth, attacked by pathogenic factors in summer and autumn, dampness and heat are accumulated and transformed into heat, and damp-heat is poured down into the intestines.

　　4. Spleen deficiency The body is originally deficient in the spleen or the diarrhea before childbirth has not been cured, and it is further injured by labor, leading to poor transportation and transformation.

　　5. Kidney deficiency The body is originally deficient in kidney Qi, and the kidney Yang is even more deficient after childbirth, or the spleen is deficient for a long time, which injures the kidney, and the gate of life is weak and cannot warm the soil.

　　Due to not paying attention to health care after childbirth, it can lead to diseases such as intestinal obstruction and intestinal adhesion.

　　Manifestations of intestinal adhesion:The clinical symptoms of intestinal adhesion patients can vary due to the degree and location of adhesion. Mild cases may have no discomfort at all. Or there may be occasional mild abdominal pain and distension after eating. Severe cases may often be accompanied by abdominal pain, distension, poor排气, belching, constipation, gas moving around in the abdomen, and even incomplete obstruction.

　　1. Food accumulation impairs the stomach:The spleen and stomach function was not fully recovered after childbirth, and the diet was irregular, leading to food accumulation in the stomach; or excessive consumption of greasy and sweet foods, causing indigestion and the spleen to lose its function.

　　2. Liver depression and eating disorders:The spleen and stomach were not healthy before, the functional deficiency of the internal organs after childbirth, the liver lost its ability to release, the liver Qi flowed against the stomach, the spleen became even weaker, and the food was not digested.

　　3. Spleen Qi Deficiency and Food-Related Illness:People with chronic spleen and stomach diseases, the spleen qi is more weak after childbirth, with poor transformation and transportation, and food is not digested.

　　Prevention:

　　1. This disease is often caused by postpartum dietary irregularities, emotional disharmony, and other factors leading to food accumulation in the stomach, failure of the spleen to transport, or liver qi attacking the stomach and violating the spleen. Therefore, attention should be paid to the adjustment of daily life after childbirth.

　　2. Postpartum diet should be light, easy to digest, and nutritious. Foods should be fresh. Avoid spicy, fatty, and sweet foods, and do not eat cold and stimulating foods. Eat slowly and chew thoroughly, and eat small meals more often.

　　3. Pay attention to temperature changes and maintain a cheerful spirit.

　　According to the symptoms such as postpartum bloating, belching, acid regurgitation, and loss of appetite, it can be diagnosed as 'postpartum food-related illness'.

　　1. Gastrointestinal examination: Through colonoscopy health examination, one can: (1) Discover gastrointestinal diseases at an early stage without symptoms, so as to receive timely treatment; (2) Discover early intestinal diseases, some of which can be treated by simple colonoscopy resection without the trauma of surgery; (3) Discover food damage changes, achieving early detection and early treatment.

　　Secondly, check other factors that may affect digestive function, such as psychological factors, environmental factors, and adjust the diet reasonably, encourage healthy eating, and pregnant women should be encouraged to eat small and frequent meals.

　　First, Postpartum Hemorrhage Diet Therapy

　　Recipe 1

　　〖Ingredients〗 30 grams of ginger, 24 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala.

　　〖Usage〗 Take one dose per day, boil the water, remove the dregs, and take it warm in two doses.

　　Recipe 2

　　〖Ingredients〗 Appropriate amount of ginger, yellow wine.

　　〖Usage〗 Take the juice of ginger and take it with yellow wine.

　　Recipe 3

　　〖Ingredients〗 Chive, ginger, in appropriate amounts.

　　〖Usage〗 Grind together and take the juice at one time.

　　Recipe 4

　　〖Recipe Name〗 Four Seeds Congee Rice.

　　〖Ingredients〗 10 grams of almond, 15 grams of Job's tears, 10 grams of amomum, 6 grams of amomum villosum, 250 grams of congee rice, 20 grams of talc, and 6 grams of cattail grass.

　　〖Preparation〗 Boil the medicine into a decoction of 150 milliliters, pour it over the congee rice, and take it warm.

　　〖Function〗 Promote the upper, smooth the middle, and benefit the lower.

　　Recipe 5

　　〖Recipe Name〗 Codonopsis Stewed Beef.

　　〖Ingredients〗 1000 grams of beef, 100 grams of white radish, 30 grams of Codonopsis, 30 grams of Astragalus, scallions, ginger, salt, monosodium glutamate, and cooking wine as needed.

　　〖Preparation〗 Clean the beef, cut into pieces, soak in cold water for 30 minutes, remove and drain the water. Peel the radish, cut into pieces, and tie the Astragalus and Codonopsis into a bag for later use. Add water to the pot, bring to a boil, add the beef, remove the foam after boiling, add the Astragalus and Codonopsis bags and cook together until the beef is almost tender, add the radish pieces, scallions, ginger, salt, and cooking wine, and simmer until the beef is tender, season with monosodium glutamate, remove the Astragalus and Codonopsis bags, eat the meat and drink the soup, without restrictions on quantity.

　　〖Function〗 Greatly replenish vital energy, treat physical weakness or various symptoms after illness or childbirth.

　　Secondly, Dietary Adjustment for Postpartum Women

　　1. Blood Building

　　New mothers lose a lot of blood after childbirth and need to supplement iron to produce red blood cells in the blood. Lean meat, animal liver and blood, and spinach contain a lot of iron, and eating more can help with blood building.

　　2. Nutritional Supplementation

　　After pregnancy and childbirth, new mothers are relatively weak. It is necessary to strengthen nutrition at this time. However, this does not mean that you should eat a lot of chicken, duck, fish, and meat, as well as various health products. A balanced combination of meat and vegetables is the way to eat during the postpartum period.

　　3. Prevent Constipation

　　Starting from the second week, eat some fresh vegetables with each meal, especially red vegetables such as carrots and amaranth; in the third week, you can add fruits to prevent constipation caused by the slowing of intestinal peristalsis in new mothers.

　　4. Digestive Aid

　　Within the first two weeks after childbirth, the mother's internal organs have not yet recovered. To avoid increasing the burden on the stomach, it is advisable to eat some food that helps digestion. Hawthorn is sweet and sour, delicious to eat, can increase appetite, aid digestion, and can excite the uterus, promoting uterine contraction and accelerating the discharge of lochia.

　　5. Calcium Supplementation

　　Calcium is an important raw material for bone growth and tooth development. New mothers should eat more milk, tofu, eggs, fish, and shrimp, which can increase the calcium content in breast milk, thereby benefiting the baby's bone and tooth development.

　　6. Optimize breast milk

　　The baby's nutrition comes entirely from the mother's milk. The mother's diet is directly related to milk secretion, and improving the quality of the mother's milk is closely related to the baby's health.

　　7. Supplement vitamins

　　Sufficient B vitamins can ensure abundant breast milk, so new mothers should eat some coarse grains, fruits, and vegetables. In addition, high-quality black tea is a rich source of B vitamins and vitamin C, and new mothers can drink it in appropriate amounts daily.

　　Third, foods not suitable for postpartum consumption

　　1. Avoid cold and greasy foods;

　　2. Avoid spicy and other刺激性 foods;

　　3. Avoid hard, rough, and acidic foods;

　　4. Avoid salty foods;

　　5. Avoid monotonous nutrition or overeating;

　　6. Breastfeeding mothers should avoid eating barley and its products;

　　7. It is not advisable to smoke and drink after childbirth;

　　8. It is not advisable to eat a lot of monosodium glutamate after childbirth;

　　9. It is not advisable to drink a lot of tea and yellow wine after childbirth.

　　First,According to the symptoms such as postpartum stomach bloating, belching, acid regurgitation, and loss of appetite,

　　1. Gastrointestinal examination: Through colonoscopy health examination, one can: (1) Discover gastrointestinal diseases at an early stage without symptoms, so as to receive timely treatment; (2) Discover early intestinal diseases, some of which can be treated by simple colonoscopy resection without the trauma of surgery; (3) Discover food damage changes, achieving early detection and early treatment.

　　2. Next, check other factors that may affect digestive function, such as psychological factors, environmental factors, and adjust diet reasonably, promote healthy eating, and encourage pregnant women to eat small meals more often. What should be noted before treating postpartum food damage?

　　Second, prevention:

　　1. This disease is often caused by postpartum dietary irregularities, emotional disharmony, and other factors leading to food accumulation in the stomach, failure of the spleen to transport, or liver qi attacking the stomach and violating the spleen. Therefore, attention should be paid to the adjustment of daily life after childbirth.

　　2. Postpartum diet should be light, easy to digest, and nutritious. Foods should be fresh. Avoid spicy, fatty, and sweet foods, and do not eat cold and stimulating foods. Eat slowly and chew thoroughly, and eat small meals more often.

　　3. Pay attention to temperature changes and maintain a cheerful spirit.