Allocations after caesarean section. How much are the discharges after cesarean? What discharge after cesarean should be?

How long after caesarean section there are discharges. What are the secretions?

Cesarean section is a serious operation, and therefore a woman will have to restore her health longer than after a natural birth. But childbirths are not always easy, often with complications, and then you can not do without surgery.

After birth, the uterus undergoes the greatest changes. During the postpartum period( close to 2 months), the uterus decreases by 20 times .

Inside the uterus, wounds heal, a new mucous membrane is formed, but before that the uterus must be cleared of all unnecessary what remains after the extraction of the child. Therefore, a woman from the uterine cavity is discharged, they are also called lochia .

What is a lochia? These are blood clots, dead small particles of the placenta.

Why does the cesarean section go away?

Applying in the first days after the caesarean section of a cold warmer to the bottom of the abdomen

After caesarean, and perhaps even more than after the usual birth, there are discharges, because the uterus should be completely cleansed of the placental remains. And yet, after Caesarean woman is endangered even more, because during the operation some infection can get inside and then inflammations will go.

To ensure that the postpartum period has passed without complications, a woman should follow the following rules:

1. Follow personal hygiene : after visiting the toilet, wash the genitals and anus, preferably with a warm chamomile broth, you can marigold, or warm water with baby soap,shower.
2. Immediately after delivery and for 2 weeks, in as pads, use diapers for better ventilation, rather than store pads. Change them in 4 hours and more often.
3. To better cut the uterus for a short time to lie on your stomach.
4. Wear a special postnatal bandage.
5. Regularly visit the toilet so that stool and urine stagnate.
6. Easy movements to massage the stomach.
7. The first days after operation on the lower abdomen to apply a cold water bottle, for 5-10 minutes, 3-5 times a day.

Note .During breastfeeding the baby is more abundant, and the pain in the lower abdomen is worse - it's not bad, but even good: oxytocin is produced in the uterus, and it shrinks better and clears faster.

What should be the discharge after caesarean section?

Allocations after caesarean section

1. The first week after operation - the color of the discharge is bright red, they are plentiful, with clots and lumps of blood.
2. The second week of - reddish-brown discharge, less abundant.
3. Subsequent weeks of are mucosal discharge with blood veins, the brown color of the discharge gradually changes in yellow. The yellow color is normal, appears due to the large number of white blood cells - white blood cells that protect the body from infections.
4. The excretions will be smaller , and they are mucous, light with a yellowish tinge, and then transparent.

Restoring one's health in the postpartum period, a woman loses nearly 1 liter of blood. After cesarean recovery period about 2 months.

Color of discharge after cesarean

It is recommended to wear

bandage for the first months after surgery

The color of the discharge after cesarean, if there are no complications, goes in this order:

• Highlight reds with clots and lumps of blood
• Red discharge with a dark shade
• The discharge is reddish brown, gradually shifting to dark brown, and then to brown
• Light brown discharge
• Yellowish discharge
• White discharge with a yellowish hue
• Colorless discharge

How much is the discharge after a cesarean section?

Allocations after cesarean lasts up to 2 months

Discharges after cesarean mainly last 5-6 weeks, up to 2 months .It is a little longer than after the delivery without complications, and this is explained by the fact that the uterus muscles were injured during the operation, and now the uterus contracts more slowly.

Important .Allocations with blood lasting more than 2 weeks should alert the woman - inflammation inside the uterus has started, and she should immediately tell the doctor about it.

Important .Also abnormal is the fast, less than a week, cessation of discharge with blood, or discharge stopped, and a week later resumed - this is a sign of a weak uterine contraction. It is necessary to tell the doctor, and he will prescribe oxytocin and massage on the lower back, to stimulate the uterus.

Important .If there are no discharge after cesarean - this is a bad sign, you need to tell the doctor about it immediately. Causes may be different: bending or cramping of the cervix, and excretions can not go out, but accumulate inside the uterus.

What is the purulent discharge after cesarean?

Purulent discharge with an unpleasant odor indicates inflammation inside the uterus - endometritis

Purulent discharge with a nasty smell indicates an inflammatory disease inside the uterus - endometritis.

Important .After cesarean inflammatory processes inside the uterus develop much more often than during childbirth in the usual way.

Why does brown discharge occur after a cesarean?

Brown discharge is a sign of a fast recovery of the body

If the first week of discharge with blood has passed, and she has been replaced by scant brown discharge - this means that the recovery of the woman's body is normal, and she will soon fully restore her health.

Green discharge after cesarean, causes

Green discharge with an unpleasant odor can be allocated for 2 reasons: with endometritis and infectious diseases

1. Green discharge, unpleasant to smell, may appear in a week, and a month after the operation.
2. Such discharge is a clear sign of the presence of inflammation in the uterine mucosa( endometritis ).In addition to secretions in the endometrium, the body temperature rises, and severe pains in the lower abdomen are observed.
3. Green discharge can also be caused by infectious diseases( trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, gonorrhea, colpitis ) in the vagina, uterus and fallopian tubes:

• Bacterial vaginosis .The disease begins with a grayish discharge of a pungent odor, severe itching and reddening of the genitals. Further the amount of secretions increases, and they become thick, green, affect the entire vagina.
• Chlamydia and gonorrhea .These diseases are characterized by green secretions, the number of which does not increase, painful urination and severe pain in the lower abdomen.
• Colpitis( inflammation of the vaginal mucosa ) - green thick discharge, pus with blood, severe itching and burning in the genitals.

Treatment for infectious diseases is performed antibiotics, multivitamins , and if the case is badly started - scraping .

Blood discharge after cesarean, causes

Bloody discharge the first week after caesarean section is normal, if longer - you need to see a doctor

• Bloody discharge of after a cesarean operation should be the same as after usual birth. Many women have the wrong idea of ​​cesarean section. They think that during the operation the doctor will clean everything, and the woman will only have to watch to heal the seam, but this is not so.
• During surgery, the doctor pulls out of the abdominal cavity only the baby and the placenta, and the uterus does not scrape the so as not to injure it even more - the uterus will clear itself. Therefore, red spotting with clots and lumps of blood the first week - it's natural and normal.
• If, after the first week of , the bleeding has not stopped , but has intensified - this is a sure sign that a woman with health is not okay, and she should go to the doctor. The cause of bleeding may be clots and pieces of the non-detached placenta , which do not go out on their own.

Discharges after cesarean with odor

Discharges with an unpleasant odor indicate inflammation of the uterine mucosa - endometritis

• Spidification odor the first days( 3-4) after the operation - is quite normal.
• But if the secretions have , the unpleasant smell of the odor is an obvious sign of inflammation and infestation of the infection. It is necessary urgently to consult with the attending physician.
• And if , in addition to secretions with a nasty smell, had pain in the lower abdomen, the temperature of increased - this is possibly endometritis( inflammation of the mucous uterus) , you need to see a doctor urgently.

Why are not discharges after cesarean?

Isolation with blood in women for more than 2 months leads to a strong decrease in hemoglobin

If discharge with blood continues for more than 2 months, and ultrasound showed that the uterus is clean - perhaps the cause of bleeding lies in the very low hemoglobin .A sign of the decreased state of hemoglobin is the unusual pallor of the skin .

Important: If you pull back the lower eyelid, and inside the mucosa is not pink, but white is the low hemoglobin of the blood.

Restoration of the body after childbirth lasts about 2 months. How can you understand that the female's reproductive system has recovered? The first sign - the discharge became colorless and ceased.

Video: Recovery after birth, cesarean section in the maternity hospital