Precautions after appendicitis operation

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What should be paid attention to after appendicitis operation? Acute appendicitis or acute attack of chronic appendicitis are more acute and serious diseases. Generally speaking, if there is no way to make the inflammation subside through drug treatment, then appendectomy can only be performed. So what are the precautions after appendicitis surgery?

Precautions after appendicitis operation

First, when the effect of the anesthetic disappears, the patient will feel pain in the incision. In order to reduce pain, patients are often limited to a comfortable position and unwilling to move. In this way, the prognosis and recovery of patients will be unfavorable. So once the pain is unbearable, it should be reported to the doctor in time, ask him to give an appropriate amount of analgesics.

Secondly, don't wash your hair and take a bath within a week after the operation. The wound can't touch water. If the operation is done in hot weather, you can let your family use a towel to help wipe the body, but also avoid the wound.

Finally, early after surgery, because it is impossible to do a lot of exercise, there may be constipation. Therefore, you can eat more fruits to keep your stool unobstructed.

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Attention after appendicitis surgery, for patients after surgery, wound line collapse is a very painful thing, and severe cough is likely to cause this accident. Therefore, when the patient is conscious of coughing, it is best to take a supine position. At the same time, both hands can force the two sides of the incision to the middle to form a gap, so as to avoid sudden increase of intra-abdominal pressure and fracture of the wound suture.