How to care for episiotomy and lacerations

Many pregnant women will encounter a problem during delivery, that is, the fetus is too big to be delivered. Some friends have to undergo episiotomy surgery, and some even use too much force and cause vaginal tearing. This phenomenon greatly increases the pain of production. So how should we treat the recovery care of episiotomy and tear? Let me give you some introduction below.

Things to note when performing episiotomy:

Limited use of episiotomy does not result in more adverse consequences, such as vaginal or perineal injury, pain, dyspareunia, or urinary incontinence. The only disadvantage is an increased risk of early perineal laceration.

For some mothers whose conditions allow them to give birth smoothly without episiotomy, this will add some unnecessary pain. Moreover, the episiotomy wound may heal quickly physically, but the psychological impact on some mothers will be lingering.

Episiotomy is a routine operation during vaginal delivery and is only used in limited cases. However, it accounts for about 90% of vaginal deliveries in China, while the proportion abroad is about 20%.

Why is episiotomy so commonly used in China? Is there a risk of perineal tear if I don’t have an episiotomy? Objectively speaking, episiotomy should not be used as a routine surgery in clinical practice, but there are many prerequisites for accurately judging whether a parturient needs an episiotomy. A very important part is that current obstetricians and nurses need a strong sense of responsibility, superb medical skills, rich clinical experience and judgment, as well as more careful care and nursing for parturients. However, the current medical level and treatment environment in most parts of our country cannot meet these conditions. The time is not yet ripe to implement limited episiotomy. Blindly demanding to reduce the episiotomy rate will only do more harm than good, for example, increasing the number of cases of perineal laceration and even threatening the health and life of the fetus.

Above we have learned about the recovery life of episiotomy and tear. Everyone must pay attention to the production of the competition and try not to exert too much force. Follow your doctor's instructions to take deep breaths. Those whose babies are too big can choose to have a caesarean section to avoid causing great pain to the body.