This remedy of sugarcane juice and
lotus helps me remove urinary retention after
childbirth.
Good
tip to treat urinary retention
After childbirth from 4 to 5 hours, you can
move lightly, but some pregnant women are able to be in trouble such as uterus
pain, vulva pain by suture of uterus, smelly lochia, or urinary retention.
One of the reasons of urinary retention is
during labor, when baby goes down, baby’s head usually presses on urethra or
urinary bladder’s neck, which causes stagnancy of urine and stretch of urinary
bladder. One more reason, even if the childbirth is convenient, midwife will
also cut perineum in order for baby’s head to go out easily and then suture it,
so decrease of urinary bladder’s function after childbirth often takes place, which
leads to urinary retention. Moreover, 2 – 3 days after birth, doctor will
catheterize urination many times if you cannot urinate; that causes you to have
cystitis easily and clearer phenomenon of urinary retention. You had better try
to move gently, not just lie in one place because this is good way to recover
uterus and discharge lochia.
When I born my baby, my mother took juice
made from sugarcane and lotus for me. She said that mixture would help me not to
have retention or urinate drop by drop which many women have got after
childbirth. She also advised me to move lightly and soak the body in warm water
in a few minute before urinating, so urination would be easier. This folk
experience was given to my mother from my grandmother. Therefore, in the first
days of childbirth, urination was not difficult for me.
After
childbirth, urinary retention makes many women painful and uncomfortable.
You can be unbelieving because much document
says that rate of urinary retention in pregnant women is only 13.5%, and you
may not be in this group. But we also know the expression “prevention is better
than cure”, so I had already drunk juice of sugarcane and lotus due to its both
delicious taste and nutrition. During the first days of birth, I drank that
mixture for replacing water, supplementing energy as well as nutrients which
help your body cool, prevent fatigue and constipation.
Moreover, ingredients of sugarcane is very
plentiful including vitamin B1, B2, B6, C and inorganic salts, organic acids,
and essential amino acids. Like sugarcane, in Oriental medicine, lotus has
cold temper, fresh sweet, and is used for cooling, treating urinary retention
and urination with blood. Women probably all know that sugarcane and lotus have
much more benefits. On the other hand, ingredients of lotus such as starch,
protein, aspartic, vitamin C, and so on are also good for the body. Fresh sweet
of both sugarcane juice and lotus makes your body cool, detoxify, and prevent
hard urination, drop-by-drop urination, and urination with blood.
Maybe you have not been convinced much yet,
but when saw directly circumstance of a woman sharing hospital room with me, I
recognized that sugarcane juice and lotus was extremely useful. That remedy
itself helped her remove fear of urination or sound of iron bed moving along
the lobby then taking her for catheterization. She took natural childbirth but
had pain in vulva by long suture, so she could not stand up for a walk, and her
urination is more difficult. Knowing her problem, my mother immediately gave
her a glass of sugarcane and lotus juice.
Juice
made from sugarcane and lotus deals with urinary retention.
My mother showed her the whole process of
making sugarcane and lotus juice and suggested her drink it 3 times per day in
order to improve retention and drop-by-drop urination. The process is: “juice 500g
peeled fresh sugarcane and 100g lotus, then mix these juices together”. My
mother also reminded her to warm this mixture before drinking. Following my
mother’s instructions, that woman did not have urinary retention any more in
following days. Especially, I no longer saw doctor took her for catheterizing
urination as usual.
Today, when medicine develops more and
more, people pay less attention to folk tips and know little about it. Only
when they see directly or spend, they understand that folk experience from long
time ago still remains its value.
The most difficult and important things in
women’s life is childbirth, but recovering health after that is also much
significant because they must be strong for taking care of as well as educating
their children since they are newborn. There is no more happiness than looking
your baby growing up and be stronger time by time and day by day.
