POSTOPERATIVE WOUND CARE
INFORMATION
For patients undergoing elective surgery
Your surgical sites have been carefully looked after during your procedure. Care has been taken to close the skin incisions with absorbable sutures (sutures that dissolve away and are absorbed by the body) that take several weeks to absorb but are invisible on the whole to the naked eye. On top of this special closure, skin glue is applied and occasionally small sterile adhesive strips to cover the incision and take the tension off the skin surface at the same time.
- Please try to look after your surgical sites.
- Avoid any activity that may lead to risk of injuring these areas.
- You can have a wash the day after surgery but please avoid to rub the area.
- If dressings have been utilised you can have a wash with the dressings on and if they get sodden, then they can be removed and replaced with the extra dressings that you will be discharged with.
- Please avoid having baths until day 7 from your surgery.
It is normal for surgical sites to be painful for several days, sometimes weeks. Occasionally there may be a small bruising around the wound which should be absorbed in the following 2-3 weeks.
If any queries regarding the surgical sites arise, please take a photo of the surgical site concerned and contact us regarding what problems you are having and we will call you the same day.
If you are in severe pain or concerned about something related to your surgery and you feel is an emergency, please contact us over the phone.
+44 7445 095133