Precautions after hysterectomy

The structure of women is very complex. The uterus, as a female reproductive organ, plays a vital role in the female body. However, due to many women's bad living habits and physical reasons, they always suffer from some diseases, such as uterine fibroids or uterine cancer. In this case, hysterectomy can only be performed to control the disease, but this is very harmful to the body. If you want to make the body recover better, you need to pay special attention to your life and diet after the operation. Let's take a look at the precautions after hysterectomy.

Precautions after hysterectomy

Six weeks after total hysterectomy, the patient should go to the hospital for a follow-up examination to understand the wound healing situation. Sexual intercourse is generally prohibited for 3 months after surgery to facilitate wound recovery. You can resume your sex life afterwards.

In clinical practice, subtotal hysterectomy is often used for young women and those who have no lesions in cervical cancer prevention examinations. Since the cervix is ​​retained, the vagina still maintains its original depth, and the feeling during sexual intercourse is better than that of a total hysterectomy. However, regular cervical cancer prevention smear examinations should be performed to prevent the occurrence of cervical cancer and stump cancer.

Studies have shown that ovarian function will be affected to a certain extent 3 to 5 years after hysterectomy, and patients will experience some menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, sweating, irritability, and vaginal dryness, which will affect sexual life. At this time, you should go to the hospital for examination. If necessary, use hormone replacement or apply medications such as cod liver oil ointment to promote a harmonious sexual life.

Pay attention to enhancing nutrition, proper physical exercise, and doing couples' health exercises to increase the body's resistance, which is also beneficial to postoperative physical recovery and harmonious sexual life.

diet

1. The diet should be light and avoid eating irritating foods such as mutton, shrimp, crab, eel, salted fish, and black fish.

2. Avoid spicy foods and drinks such as chili peppers, peppercorns, raw onions, raw garlic, and white wine.

3. Avoid eating foods that are hot, coagulant, or contain hormones, such as longan, red dates, donkey-hide gelatin, and royal jelly.

4. Eat more lean meat, chicken, eggs, quail eggs, crucian carp, turtle, white fish, cabbage, asparagus, celery, spinach, cucumber, winter melon, mushrooms, tofu, kelp, seaweed, fruits, etc.

Having a healthy body cannot be maintained by drugs alone. Some details in our daily life are also important. The above is an introduction to the precautions after hysterectomy. After understanding, we realize how important a healthy diet and a regular life are. Therefore, we must develop good living habits in our daily lives. Female friends should pay more attention to the details of their own bodies. If there are any abnormalities, they must seek treatment in time.