Nursing methods for itchy episiotomy wounds during normal delivery

Many friends who have just given birth will experience excessive episiotomy due to difficult labor during normal delivery. In this case, if the wound is not properly cared for after the operation, it will easily become infected. The general symptoms are that the itching is particularly uncomfortable and unbearable, so the following article will introduce to you, by the way, what should you do if the episiotomy wound is itchy?

Causes of itching in the episiotomy wound after normal delivery

Generally speaking, symptoms of itchy incision often occur during the wound healing process after a normal delivery episiotomy. New blood vessels and nerves grow connective tissue at the patient's wound site. These new blood vessels and nerves are very dense and crowded together, and the nerves are easily stimulated, leading to symptoms of itchy wound. Moreover, our nerve regeneration is relatively slow, and it mostly regenerates in the later stages of wound healing. So normally, the appearance of itchy wounds proves that the patient's wound is about to heal.

What to do if the wound of episiotomy is itchy during normal delivery

Therefore, once the patient's episiotomy wound develops itching symptoms, as long as they can still bear it, they should avoid taking any treatment measures. In particular, avoid scratching the wound, as this will not only aggravate the itching of the wound, but may also cause wound infection. If the patient's nerves are more sensitive and it is really unbearable, some anti-itching hormone drugs can be used to act on the wound.

Of course, wound inflammation can also cause itchy wounds in patients. Once the patient's wound shows symptoms of inflammation and infection, it must be treated in a timely manner. Perform anti-inflammatory work on the wound in time. For some more serious wounds, you can use Yu’s Wound Healing Recipe and other liquid medicines to treat them, eliminate wound inflammation, and heal the wound faster.

In short, once the surgical wound shows itching symptoms, avoid scratching, check and treat it in time to avoid more serious lesions.

Above we introduced the itching of episiotomy wound during normal delivery. In life, female friends who have just given birth are advised to pay attention to their personal hygiene, including cleaning the wound in time after delivery to avoid infection of the wound. Especially in the summer, long-term sitting can also cause infection in life.