Precautions after heart surgery: eating more is easy to digest

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What should heart patients pay attention to in their postoperative life? What should heart patient eat after operation? After heart surgery, is the weakest time, reasonable diet and nursing can help heart patients recover quickly. So what should heart patients do after surgery?

Precautions after heart surgery: eating more is easy to digest

First: diet: Patients after heart surgery should eat more easily digestible food rich in protein and vitamins, but should not be too full, should not eat too salty food, should also prevent indigestion and intestinal infection.

Second: incision care: after removing stitches, as long as the incision is healed, you can take a bath, but do not use strong irritant soap, and do not rub the skin at the wound. If the wound is red, swollen, distending pain, running water or fever, the patient should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

Third: activity: in the condition allows, daily can increase some activity, excessive activity will increase the burden of the heart. The sternal wound of heart patients usually heals within six weeks, so it is not suitable to lift heavy objects within six weeks.

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If you feel uncomfortable, don't be impatient and worried. Patients with heart disease should actively look for the causes and maintain an optimistic and positive attitude and firm confidence. A few patients may have some mental and emotional changes after operation, which may be related to the temporary effects of operation, anesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass. Most patients will soon disappear.