The precautions for children with stitches mainly include keeping the wound clean and dry, using antibiotics as prescribed by the doctor, changing the medicine regularly and paying attention to the diet.
1. Keep the wound clean and dry: clean and dry skin at the wound is one of the important factors to ensure the normal growth of the wound, if the wound is in a wet environment, it is easy to lead to wound infection, and will also affect the healing of the wound, so the wound should be avoided water.
2. Follow the doctor’s instructions to use antibiotics: after the injury stitches, such as larger wounds, or belong to the contamination of the wound, the need for prophylactic anti-infective treatment, you can use cephalosporins and other drugs under the guidance of the doctor to avoid wound infection.
3. Regular medication change: usually 1-2 days to change the medication once, depending on the wound, to reduce bacterial reproduction, remove the wound wound wound foreign body such as necrotic tissue, secretion, etc., to create favorable conditions for wound healing, and at the same time need to pay attention to should be timely removal of stitches.
4. Pay attention to diet: after the injury stitches in the diet should pay attention to light and easy to digest, appropriate supplementation of vitamin C, strengthen nutrition, help wound healing.
Children injured stitches should follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment, if there are symptoms of discomfort should be communicated with the doctor, and timely treatment.