Postpartum finger pain

Introduction After childbirth, affected by endocrine hormones, the pores of the skin and the joints of the whole body are opened, and the cold is invaded by the cold. It will make the wind chill and stagnate. In addition, the month keeps feeding the baby, changing the diaper, and making the wrist and fingers work. I am getting more and more serious injuries. If I can get medical treatment at the end, I will affect my daily life and work because of frequent pain. If the mother uses cold water or is stimulated by cold during housework, symptoms of hand pain can occur.

Cause

Modern medicine believes that during postpartum and lactation, women often have a decrease in tension in the ligaments near the joint capsule and joints due to changes in endocrine hormones in the body. In this case, if the mother does not pay attention to the rest and engages in more housework, it will cause the already weak joints, tendons, and ligaments to be overburdened and painful. If the mother is using cold water or being stimulated by cold during housework, symptoms of hand pain can occur.

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Need blood test to check rheumatoid factor, anti-O, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, etc., to rule out the possibility of rheumatoid and rheumatic diseases. X-ray examination if necessary.

Four diagnoses of Chinese medicine: joint pain, cold, chills and fear of cold, the symptoms of cold are aggravated, the symptoms are relieved after being heated, the tongue is pale and the pulse is tight.

Differential diagnosis

Inflammatory tendons and nerves usually manifest as two types of wrist tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. The pain caused by the former is most obvious at the junction between the thumb and the wrist, and the incidence is also high. It is characterized by the soreness and pain of the wrist, the fist movement or the thumb stretching action, such as writing, holding chopsticks, lifting the cup, taking the bottle. It will aggravate the pain and show a cord-like swelling on the arm; carpal tunnel syndrome is the compression of the tendon of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel, causing pain and numbness in the fingers. It only shows stinging at first, and often makes Mommy wake up during sleep, but the pain of the finger will disappear quickly.

If the wrist tendonitis is not rested and treated in time, the pain will become more and more serious; if the carpal tunnel syndrome is not treated in time, the muscle atrophy inside and outside the palm may occur after several months due to neurological malnutrition.

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