How to deal with postpartum urinary retention

Postpartum urinary retention can be treated by general treatment, drug therapy, physical therapy, etc.

1. General treatment

can give patients to listen to the sound of running water, through conditioned reflex to increase the maternal urine. Secondly, warm water can be used to flush the vulva and external urethral orifice, stimulate the peripheral nerves of the vulva, and induce urination.

2. Drug therapy

If the postpartum urinary retention is caused by the decrease in bladder contractile force caused by the anesthetic drugs used during childbirth or the sense of urine, the patient with ineffective urination can be induced by neostigmine, phentolamine, tamsulosin hydrochloride, etc. according to the situation.

3. Physical therapy

can awaken the paralyzed bladder detrusor muscle and promote spontaneous urination through low-frequency pulse electrical stimulation.