Each woman after childbirth collides with secretions and this is normal. It's another matter what character these discharges are. Usually after the birth, the first two or three days the nature of the discharge is as follows: the lochia go out together with the dead epithelium, pieces of plasma and other wound secret, but already on the fourth or fifth day the nature of the secretions changes significantly. The color of the discharge changes, they acquire a brownish-yellow color. Such discharge after birth is completely normal, because the uterus after the birth is restored, returns to the prenatal, the initial state.
After ten days of isolation become yellow-transparent and begin to "smudge." All this is the usual process of restoring the woman's organism after childbirth, which proceeds without complications. During this period, it is very important to breastfeed the baby, and also to empty the bladder in time, it is important to do to restore the uterus and promptly stop the discharge.
If on the fourth or fifth day vaginal discharge is greenish-yellow or yellow, this is much worse, and if the discharge has a sharp unpleasant odor or a putrid smell, then this is cause for concern. Such discharges may indicate that inflammatory processes occur in the uterus or in the vagina of a woman. Moreover, such discharges are most often accompanied by a sharp increase in temperature, pains in the lower abdomen.
If after the birth, yellow discharge is observed, the gynecologist should be consulted immediately, in order to identify the possibility of corneal and endometritis in the uterine cavity in time. In some cases, the blood can resume or go purulent. In these cases, you should immediately contact your gynecologist. Remember, the baby needs a healthy mom! A gynecologist can send a small pelvis to the ultrasound and send it for a bacteriological smear. Such symptoms may indicate that the contraction of the uterus is very slow because of the presence of the lochia. Stagnation is bad, if you do not call a gynecologist in a timely manner, it can cause inflammation.
Sometimes after birth, the yellow discharge caused by the endometritis does not begin immediately, but only after a few weeks. The earlier this happened, the harder the disease. Due to ruptures or trauma of the uterus during the birth process, the functional layer of the uterus becomes inflamed, which causes the formation of purulent secretions of yellow-green or yellow. More often such allocation have a purulent smell.
After the woman was diagnosed with a mandatory diagnosis, she was prescribed immunity-strengthening drugs and antibiotics. Often, together with the drugs prescribed physiotherapy. In some cases, scraping is required, during which the uterine cavity is cleared of the scar-altered endometrium. In order not to bring the body to such a state, it is necessary to minimize the probability of endometritis - to avoid abortions and sexual infections, take care of oneself, take multivitamins, try to catch less, play sports, become tempered, visit the gynecologist twice a year. Due to the recommendations that the doctor will prescribe, you can avoid the endometritis and the associated yellow discharge in the future.
Basic rules of hygiene
The inguinal area after childbirth needs special hygiene, as the composition of lop-snatches of the endometrium, lymph, blood clots are a favorable environment for the spread of bacteria. After childbirth, it is recommended to wash out after every bowel movement for the entire period of excrement. Special postnatal pads should be changed at most after 3 hours, it is also recommended to change it after each bowel movement. To avoid allergic reactions and diaper rash, the skin of the inguinal area can be carefully dried. After giving birth, it is advised to wear cotton soft underwear, because after giving birth it is very important that discharges freely flow to the gasket. After birth, you can not douch and use tampons, because there is a risk of infection.