When a woman sweats after giving birth to a child, it may be postpartum puerperal sweating, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. It may also be caused by puerperal heatstroke, postpartum spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the day, aggravated by sweating with slight movement) and other pathological causes.
1. Physiological: After giving birth, women may have exuberant skin excretion and discharge a large amount of sweat, which is obvious when waking up and sleeping at night. This is puerperal perspiration, which is a normal physiological phenomenon and does not require special treatment. Patients also need to pay attention to maintain postpartum hygiene, need to keep the room ventilation, to avoid high room temperature.
2. Pathologic:
(1) puerperal heatstroke: the central neural thermoregulatory dysfunction caused by residual body heat that cannot be emitted in a timely manner when the mother is in a hot and stuffy environment is called puerperal heatstroke, which is also puerperal pyrexia. This situation should immediately change the hot environment, rapid cooling, heatstroke is serious, we should promptly go to the hospital.
(2) Postpartum spontaneous sweating: there is a certain relationship between women’s post-partum physical weakness, if the body is weak, there will be symptoms of sweating. Postpartum spontaneous sweating should pay attention to drink more water, pay more attention to rest, in addition to pay attention to keep warm and avoid colds.
If you exclude physiological reasons, please consult a doctor in time. If you need to use medication, you need to take it under the guidance of a doctor, do not take medication without authorization.