Coughing after vocal cord surgery can delay wound repair, cause growth of vocal polyps, induce dyspnea, and lead to aspiration pneumonia.
1. Delayed wound repair: after vocal polyp surgery, the vocal cord tissue will generally have congestion and edema, then coughing may aggravate the edema of the local tissue, which is not conducive to the recovery of the wound.
2. Causing the growth of vocal polyps: prolonged coughing will cause strong vibration and friction of the vocal folds, which will easily lead to the growth of polyp tissue on the trauma.
3. Induce dyspnea: If the cough is more intense, it may also lead to trauma edema, bleeding, local spasm may appear dyspnea, emergency may have to do a tracheotomy.
4. Aspiration pneumonia: if the trauma bleeding may be mistakenly inhaled into the lungs, which will lead to infection of the abdominal tissues, causing aspiration pneumonia.
So after the vocal polyp surgery, pay attention to try to avoid violent coughing. When coughing heavily, you can actively seek medical attention to identify the cause of standardized diagnosis and treatment, appropriate cough suppression and nebulization and other causative and symptomatic treatment, and actively control the symptoms.