There are too many taboos in the Chinese confinement!
A friend said: When I was a child, parents like to take care of their children. This is not enough and that is not enough. When the child grows up, he can’t take care of it. Perhaps the parents will have a sense of loss. When the child gives birth to the child and confinement, the parents can finally find the sense of authority that you have not discussed.
Let the elders take care of it and find the sense of authority, and we will recognize it. However, different places pay attention to different things, and different places taboo may even be opposite! As a result, when people from two different places get married, family conflicts will arise due to different taboos in the confinement, which is more troublesome.
Confinement was initially a ceremonial restriction for women. The greatest mystery of a woman lies in her ability to give birth to life. Therefore, in ancient China, where men were superior to women, there were certainly many regulations for women to give birth to children.
Therefore, confinement was first recorded in the Book of Rites, not in what’s medical books. The Book of Rites even stipulated that different levels of children were born and the etiquette followed was different. That is to say, a civilian village woman who gave birth to a child is not qualified to sit on the confinement of nobles, ministers and wives!
However, from a medical point of view, the so-called taboos in many confines can be expressed in one lyric-[five words float from the sky, that’s nothing! ]
Avoid washing your hair and bathing?
Wrong!
The right thing is: avoid not washing your hair or bathing!
There is a lot of sweat in the confinement, which is medically called mattress sweat. This is because the increased blood volume during pregnancy should be excreted. Therefore, it is very important to pay attention to personal hygiene, which must be reversed: should avoid not washing hair and bathing.
Moreover, because lochia should be removed, special attention should be paid to perineal cleaning, and the blood flowing out should be cleaned with clear water every day, otherwise the risk of puerperal infection may be increased.
Do you not get out of bed during confinement?
The emphasis is [sitting] on the confinement, so it is easy not to get out of bed?
Wrong!
Also have to say the opposite: should avoid staying in bed all day.
Because pregnant and lying-in women’s blood is in a hypercoagulable state, it belongs to the high-risk group of thrombotic diseases. Therefore, as long as you feel that your body can stand it, you should get out of bed as much as possible.
Do not eat raw and cold seafood?
As soon as this taboo comes out, a lying-in woman will ask: Do apples have to be cooked before they can be eaten?
Speaking, who will eat raw pork except Fan Kuai at the Hongmen banquet? Seafood contains a lot of high-quality protein. As long as you are not allergic or have diarrhea, eating seafood is still good.
Therefore, in terms of diet, as long as it is easy to digest and free from poison, you can eat fresh vegetables and fruits, meat, eggs, fish and shrimp, and there is no taboo.
On the whole, it is better to have a good rest, pay attention to personal hygiene, eat whatever you like and make yourself comfortable than what.
In addition to confinement, there are many taboos when pregnant, especially when eating.
Fasting crabs and litchi during pregnancy?
Some people say that fasting crabs, litchi and the like during pregnancy will miscarry. Think about it, those who are pregnant unexpectedly are afraid of surgery and want medicine flow. As a result, at least 10% of them fail to miscarry after taking medicine. This is taking medicine!
If you eat a crab, litchi can miscarry, then who is afraid of accidental pregnancy? What about accidental pregnancy? It’s too simple. To jins of litchi, two hairy crabs, not only full of food, but also smooth miscarriage. There are no side effects, so there is no need for contraception!
In fact, in the eyes of nutrition experts, they think that when guiding diet, they should emphasize which foods to eat, rather than which foods to prohibit. Especially during pregnancy, they emphasize the wide and miscellaneous food, so they will not emphasize the so-called dietary taboos.
What should be paid attention to during pregnancy diet?
1. Try to avoid eating half-baked beef, eggs, shellfish and sashimi, as well as unsterilized milk.
2. You should stay away from alcohol and tobacco.
3. Try not to take medicine. When taking medicine, you should use it under the guidance of a doctor.
Avoid eating these foods, because these foods may be the source of Listeria infection and bring risks to the fetus.
Everyone knows the reason of avoiding taking medicine. However, everyone seems not afraid of fetal protection drugs. Even if there is no what problem, they also want to take some fetal protection drugs, as if you are not protected and TA cannot stay in your stomach.
Instead, when it is really necessary to treat drugs, I look forward and look back, and worry about the side effects of drugs and the impact on the fetus. In fact, the fetal protection medicine is not as safe as you think, and is not as divine as you think. When necessary, the medicine that should be used also needs to be used, informing the doctor that you are pregnant and following the doctor’s guidance, the disease that should be treated still needs to be treated.
Can’t you have sex during pregnancy?
There are also some taboos that many people do not want to discuss. It is almost natural for many Chinese to avoid sex during pregnancy.
But in fact, the textbook Williams Maternity Science clearly points out that for healthy pregnant women, normal sex life is not restricted during pregnancy.
It means that as a healthy pregnant woman, as long as your pregnancy does not have what’s special circumstances, then you can have normal sex at any stage of pregnancy-of course, if you still want to.
Because some studies show that about 60% of Western women have significantly decreased their sexual desire during pregnancy, while about 30% have little change. As for the research on Chinese women, only Hong Kong data are available at present. More than 70% of women’s sexual desire during pregnancy has declined.
Therefore, sex during pregnancy is not taboo, but in most cases women do not need it themselves. And if you are healthy and want to, it is also possible.
Medical staff should not be [accomplices in spreading rumours]
On the taboo of pregnant and lying-in women, the public’s anxiety caused by lack of medical knowledge is on the one hand, and the medical staff themselves may also play a certain role. For example, when I was in the abortion room before, the superior doctor said that I should not eat longan and litchi after surgery, so I also learned to say so. Now I’m afraid it’s wrong to think about it.
I don’t know where the so-called “longan and litchi promoting blood circulation” came from, but it is not said in Compendium of Materia Medica anyway. Moreover, even low molecular weight heparin, an anticoagulant, is not taboo after delivery, let alone eating some longan and litchi from you!
No one knows the basis for this statement, let alone what’s evidence. Therefore, for doctors, it is not my teacher who taught me so. I will say so. When teaching patients, I have to use my brain and have a basis for what I say, otherwise I will add chaos to patients.
Some people may think that these taboos are all things that they prefer to believe or not to believe. It is always right to be careful. This sounds quite right, so I plan to spun an article about cancer caused by eating rice and steamed bread everywhere. I want to see how many people will starve to death based on this principle of caution.
Author: Tian Jishun