How long does it take to recover from lung surgery?

How long does it take to recover from lung surgery? Depending on your situation, the normal suture removal time for normal chest and abdominal surgery is 7 days. If you are conservative, you can disconnect the line for more than 10 days. However, recovery from the inside usually takes three to six months, but it also needs to be deleted. The size of the organization depends. Suggestions: It is recommended that patients rest in bed for one or two days and increase their intake of protein, sugar and fat foods, which can help patients repair their tissues. I wish you good health!

1. Mentality: Lung cancer is completely curable through surgical intervention and other treatment measures. Therefore, you must have a correct understanding of your condition and the side effects during treatment. Be sure to maintain an optimistic and cheerful attitude and believe that you can overcome the disease. Only by adjusting your mindset, building confidence, and actively cooperating with treatment can you mobilize the body's internal disease-fighting mechanism. Negativity and pessimism are very detrimental to recovery.

2. Diet: Maintain a normal diet and do not avoid certain foods. You can eat any food as long as it is light, fresh, nutritious and easy to digest. Do not eat or eat less spicy food.

3. Maintenance: You should pay attention to the maintenance of your respiratory tract, pay attention to changes in climate, and try to avoid colds. If you catch a cold, you should seek medical attention and take medication in time for thorough treatment to avoid pneumonia. Do not stay in places with polluted air. Active or passive smoking and drinking alcohol are strictly prohibited.

4. Discomfort: ① Cough: If you still have some irritating cough, you don’t need to be nervous, because after lung resection, the bronchial stump may cause coughing during the healing process. You must pay attention to coughing out phlegm in time. If the sputum is thicker, you can take some expectorants such as Mucosolvan; if the cough is severe and affects your rest, you can take some antitussive drugs such as compound licorice mixture, Federal cough syrup, etc. ②Incision pain and numbness: If you feel needle-like pain and numbness in the surgical incision, it is related to the severance of the nerves in the chest wall during the operation. You need to be patient. This discomfort will slowly subside after a few months. If the incision pain is severe and affects your rest, you can take some painkillers. We now treat lung cancer through thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery. The advantages of thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery are very prominent. There is no obvious discomfort after the operation, little trauma to the patient, less pain, quick recovery, good surgical effect, low complications and short hospitalization time.

5. Follow-up examination: It is very important that you continue to have regular follow-up examinations. Follow-up examinations should be conducted every three months within two years after surgery, every six months two years thereafter, and this can be extended to once a year after the fifth year. The doctor will review your chest X-ray or chest CT, abdominal B-ultrasound, etc. according to your condition. Other examinations such as whole-body bone scan, brain CT or MRI may also be performed as needed. If you have any other questions, you are always welcome to consult us. After surgery, patients are requested to return for follow-up visits at the instructed time, and bring their discharge records and all medical-related information with them so that an accurate, targeted and effective individualized diagnosis and treatment plan can be provided.

6. Nourishment: You can take some health supplements to speed up recovery, improve immunity, and reduce the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. But please note that the current health care product market is quite chaotic. Please do not believe the false propaganda of some illegal manufacturers and be wary of being deceived.