Clinic of the postpartum period, running from subfebrile temperature

Most Soviet and foreign authors believe that a rise in temperature in the postpartum period to 37.5 and even to 37.9° cannot be considered a sign of a disease, and all such women in labor should be classified under the heading of those who have normally spent their postpartum period. Here, of course, we are talking about those cases when the subfebrile temperature cannot be explained by the presence in the body of the postpartum woman of any pathological processes of an extragenital nature (fresh or exacerbation that existed before delivery). This also does not include women with chronic diseases of the genital area, in whom childbirth, even completely normal, caused a slight exacerbation of the previously existing process. Thus, there remains a group of puerperas (approximately 8-10%), in whom the postpartum period is characterized by an "inexplicable" at first glance, short-term subfebrile condition. The study of these cases allows us, however, to make some adjustments on this issue.