Caesarean section incision care method

Caesarean section is a common method of delivery. Nowadays, many women choose this method when giving birth. However, when choosing a cesarean section, you also need to pay attention to the fact that your physical condition must be suitable. Otherwise, it is easy to cause various diseases during the recovery process. So what are the methods for caring for the cesarean section incision? Caring for the cesarean section incision is very important, and women should also pay attention to this.

Caesarean section incision care method:

Use less pain medication

When the effect of the anesthetic slowly disappears after cesarean section, the pain in the abdominal wound begins to return, and the pain usually becomes severe a few hours after the operation. In order to ensure good rest and recover as quickly as possible, you can ask your doctor to give you some painkillers on the day of surgery or that night. After that, you need to be more patient and try not to use pain relief drugs, otherwise it will affect the recovery of intestinal motility function. Generally speaking, the pain from the wound will disappear on its own after 3 days. Gently massaging the wound with your fingers for 3 to 5 minutes every day can promote wound healing and reduce scar formation.

You should turn over more often after surgery

Anesthetic drugs have a certain inhibitory effect on intestinal peristalsis, which can cause varying degrees of intestinal flatulence and thus abdominal distension, which is not conducive to wound healing. Therefore, after delivery, you should turn over in bed more often to promote the early recovery of paralyzed intestinal muscle peristalsis function and help expel gas in the intestine as soon as possible.

Semi-recumbent position is recommended for bed rest

Since the physical recovery of mothers who undergo cesarean section is much slower than that of those who give birth naturally, mothers who undergo cesarean section are more likely to have difficulty expelling lochia. Therefore, it is recommended that mothers adopt a semi-recumbent position and turn over more often. This can promote the discharge of lochia, avoid accumulation in the uterine cavity and cause infection which affects uterine reduction, and is also beneficial to the healing of the uterine incision.

Keep your abdominal incision clean

Within 2 weeks after surgery, avoid getting the abdominal wound wet and do not take a full body shower, but use a sponge bath. You can take a shower after two weeks, but you must not take a sitz bath until the lochia is completely discharged. Do not get the incision wet or dirty before the wound heals. If it gets wet, it must be wiped dry immediately and disinfected with betadine. If the wound becomes red, swollen, hot, or painful, do not squeeze or apply any application patches on it yourself. You should seek medical attention promptly to avoid wound infection and delayed treatment.

After understanding the methods of caring for the cesarean section incision, you need to pay attention to these things after the cesarean section. In addition, if you have any abnormal conditions after the cesarean section, you need to undergo a physical examination in time, especially when there is an infection. You cannot selfishly choose medication to relieve it, as this will not do any good to your body. You must choose the correct method to improve it.