What are the precautions to take before and after cataract surgery? This is a question that many patients want to know. By doing well in the precautions before such surgery, they will be able to cope with the surgery better.
Precautions to pay attention to before cataract surgery.
1. Relax mentally and keep a happy mood.
2. Sleep sufficiently at night to ensure rest.
3.Avoid getting cold to prevent catching a cold; prohibit smoking before surgery to avoid stimulating the tracheal mucosa, increasing secretions and inducing cough.
4.Eat easily digestible food, avoid spicy and stimulating food, and keep bowel movements smooth.
5.For patients who need general anesthesia, abstain from eating and drinking 8 hours before surgery. Before entering the operating room, please take off the denture, watch, cell phone and valuable clothes to family members for safekeeping.
6.Patients with heart disease, hypertension and other chronic diseases, please keep your physical condition stable.
7.Please do your personal hygiene, wash your hair, take a bath, cut your nails, and change your clean underwear.
8.On the day of surgery, please don’t wear pullover lining or high collar lining, wear clothes with knotted buttons on the chest and loose collar to avoid touching the operation eye when putting on and taking off clothes after surgery.
9.On the day of surgery, please wash your face clean and do not use any cosmetics.
10.A family member must accompany you on the day of surgery.
11. Patients with diabetes should lower their blood glucose before surgery. The specific amount of blood glucose lowered differs from doctor to doctor, but generally it should be lowered to less than 10 mMOL/L.
Problems that should be noted after cataract surgery.
1.After surgery, you need to rest quietly and avoid strenuous activities, coughing, sneezing, bending over and lifting heavy objects, etc.
2. Pay attention to the protection of the operated eye, prevent collision, do not forcefully squeeze the eye, rub the eye, and do not scrub hard when washing the face to avoid water entering the operated eye.
3, pay attention to the nutritional intake should be balanced, eat more vegetables, fruits, coarse fiber and other easily digestible food. Avoid smoking and alcohol, eat less spicy and stimulating food to prevent constipation.
4.Eye drops need to be ordered after surgery. Wash your hands before ordering eye drops, tilt your head back slightly, gently pull open the lower eyelid with a cotton swab or finger, hold the eye drops bottle 1.5-2 cm away from the eye, put 1-2 drops of eye drops into the lower conjunctival sac (do not drop directly on the cornea), and then close your eyes lightly for several minutes. Each eye drop needs to be spaced more than 3-5 minutes apart.
5. Mild foreign body sensation and bulbar conjunctival congestion are normal after surgery. If significant eye pain, nausea, vomiting or sudden loss of vision occurs, please contact the doctor immediately.
6.After discharge from the hospital, regular review, if there is any special condition, you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.
7. Patients with systemic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes should continue treatment after discharge to control the occurrence of symptoms. Especially for diabetic patients, it is still necessary to control blood sugar well after surgery in order to ensure and consolidate the post-cataract surgery effect.
8. Avoid going to crowded and smoke-stimulated places. If the outdoor sunlight is strong, you can wear sunglasses.
9. 2-3 months after surgery, you can resume normal physical activities with the doctor’s permission; watch TV and read books without eye fatigue.
10, 3 months after surgery, optometry, if necessary, prescription lenses, adjust the vision to see far or near, in order to achieve the best results.