What to do if the episiotomy wound becomes suppurated during normal delivery

When women are giving birth, they must pay attention to actively cooperate with the doctor. Before giving birth, women will experience contractions. At this time, women must remain calm and not be anxious, otherwise it will have a great impact on their own delivery. What should I do if the episiotomy wound during normal delivery becomes festered? This is a common problem for many women during childbirth. There are some good ways to improve this situation, which are introduced in detail below.

What to do if the episiotomy wound becomes suppurative during normal delivery?

Pay attention to cleaning and disinfection and sterilization. You can go to the pharmacy to buy some potassium permanganate tablets, go home and soak the wound in warm water for a few minutes. It can disinfect and sterilize, which is beneficial to wound healing.

For some patients with wound inflammation that is only slightly red and swollen, you can apply iodine tincture to the wound every day for anti-inflammatory and disinfection, and at the same time pay attention to protecting the wound. If the inflammation of the episiotomy wound is more serious, the patient will show typical symptoms of wound inflammation such as redness, swelling, heat and pain at the wound site, and there will be exudate flowing out. At this time, you can use normal saline to clean the wound, and then apply iodine to reduce inflammation. At the same time, you need to take oral antibiotics or intravenous infusion treatment according to the doctor's instructions.

If the patient's wound shows serious symptoms such as suppuration and ulcers, the wound will not show signs of healing for several weeks. The first thing to do at this time is to clean the wound in time to prevent the spread of wound inflammation. In order to make the wound heal faster, after cleaning, it can be treated with medicines that promote wound healing, such as Yu’s Wound Healing Recipe. Of course, some oral antibiotics can be used as auxiliary treatment during treatment.

After understanding what to do if the episiotomy wound during normal delivery becomes purulent, women should not choose spicy foods to relieve the purulent wound during normal delivery. At this time, women should pay attention to personal hygiene to avoid bacterial invasion. The treatment of purulent wound during normal delivery takes a long time, so women should be patient in the treatment.