What to do if you get an infection after surgery

It can be said that surgical infection is relatively serious. When surgical treatment is required for certain diseases in daily life, it is necessary to prevent infection of the surgical wound. Once infection occurs, the harm is relatively large. Mild cases may cause symptoms of redness, swelling and exudation, while severe cases may cause suppuration and even lead to treatment failure. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out anti-inflammatory treatment in time at this time, and pay attention to diet adjustment.

What to do if the surgical wound is infected

If the patient's wound infection symptoms are mild, and the wound only shows symptoms of redness, swelling and exudation, you can use normal saline to clean the wound every day, and use iodine to disinfect the cleaning. At the same time, pay attention to wound care to avoid reinfection of the wound.

If the patient's wound infection is severe and there are symptoms of wound suppuration or even wound ulceration, the first thing to do is to perform debridement surgery on the wound to remove pus and necrotic tissue in the wound area to avoid worsening of the wound infection. After cleaning, change the dressing and treat normally until recovery. If you want the wound to heal as quickly as possible, you can use medicines that promote wound healing, such as Yu?'s Wound Healing Recipe, for treatment.

During the period of surgical wound infection, some anti-inflammatory and anti-infective antibiotics can be taken orally under the guidance of a doctor. If the infection is severe, intravenous anti-infection infusion treatment is required. The choice of antibiotics depends on the bacterial culture results of the wound site and the patient's physical condition.

During the wound infection period, pay attention to wound care, pay attention to daily diet conditioning, avoid eating spicy and irritating foods, avoid eating hair-raising foods, and at the same time eat more foods rich in protein, vitamins, and glucose, and maintain a good and positive attitude.

Precautions

When changing wound dressings, take wound secretions for bacterial culture and drug sensitivity testing to determine the antibiotics. Every day, according to the size of the wound, choose an appropriate amount of sensitive antibiotic saline gauze to wet the wound. This will allow the antibiotics to be evenly distributed on the skin wound edge and soft tissue (granulation tissue) to enhance the antibacterial effect of local tissues, thereby achieving effective antibacterial effects.

In addition, during wound care, zinc supplementation can help wound healing. The main method of zinc supplementation is to eat foods rich in zinc. Foods rich in zinc include: seafood such as deep-sea fish and seaweed, beef, pork liver, pork kidney, nuts such as walnuts and peanuts, and legumes such as soybeans and broad beans.