Ullr If you are an ordinary mother who has no underlying medical conditions and has recovered smoothly after childbirth, you do not need to take special "postpartum recovery medicine". If you really need medicine, it must be a prescription medicine issued by a professional doctor after evaluation. It is absolutely not recommended to blindly purchase various Internet celebrity conditioning and nourishing products.
Last year, my best friend gave birth to a baby naturally. When she was discharged from the hospital, the doctor only prescribed two boxes of motherwort granules to help with uterine contractions and a few boxes of ferrous succinate tablets. She had iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy, and her hemoglobin was still low in the postpartum review, so she needed additional iron supplements. She had previously bought several boxes of Internet celebrity "Biochemical Soup" and "Detoxing Ointment". She took them to the outpatient doctor, but was immediately persuaded to stop. They said that most of these products had opaque ingredients, and some of them added strong blood-activating ingredients. She did not have a large amount of lochia, but eating them might cause abnormal bleeding, which was not worth the loss. I once met a mother who secretly bought postpartum Qi and Blood Pills that were claimed to be "all herbal and with no side effects." As a result, her baby drank her milk and had diarrhea for three days in a row. No infection indicators were found when she went to the hospital. She was cured immediately after she stopped taking the medicine. The baby suffered for nothing.
There is now a lot of controversy about whether to use Chinese medicine for postpartum conditioning. Most Western medicine does not recommend that all mothers take biochemical and qi-blood-tonifying Chinese patent medicines routinely. After all, the body's metabolic burden is heavy after childbirth, and the baby has to be fed. Many non-essential medicines will increase the burden on the liver and kidneys, and those with unknown ingredients may also affect the baby through milk.； However, doctors in regular traditional Chinese medicine hospitals will also differentiate syndrome according to the individual conditions of the mother. For example, only if there are problems such as endless lochia, cold uterus, severe deficiency of qi and blood, etc., they will prescribe targeted medicines. There has never been a "universal recovery medicine" suitable for all mothers.
Many novice mothers around me always feel backache, hair loss, and general fatigue after confinement. Their first reaction is to look for "tonics" to take. I have heard obstetricians complain about these problems before, and nine out of ten of them are caused by staying up late with the baby and not getting enough daily calcium and high-quality protein. It really cannot be solved by taking medicine. If you sleep less than 5 hours a day, no matter how many tonics you take, you will not be able to relieve it. There are also those oral products that advertise that they can "quickly repair pelvic floor muscles" and "lie down and lose weight back to pre-pregnancy". They are all IQ taxes. Pelvic floor muscle damage is the traction damage of muscles and fascia during pregnancy and childbirth. Drugs cannot affect this area at all. Taking oral drugs to repair pelvic floor muscles is just like how you expect skin care products to slim down your legs. It is completely useless. If you have the spare money, it is better to sign up for a regular pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation class, or do Kegel exercises at home for 10 minutes every day to get quick results.
I have asked several obstetrics nurses before. After they gave birth to their babies, no one would take any extra messy recovery products except for the medicines specifically ordered by the doctor. If you really want to recover smoothly, eat more eggs, milk, lean meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, and squeeze in an extra 10 minutes of sleep, which is better than anything else. But don't buy medicines indiscriminately and hurt yourself and the baby.
