Do you have to stay in bed after liposuction? Actually, no! You can’t exercise vigorously after liposuction, but walking in moderation can promote the recovery of the wound! Today we are going to talk to you about how to spend the recovery period after liposuction.
Liposuction can bring more than just a few millimeters of incision
After liposuction, it looks like there are only a few millimeters of small incisions in the liposuction area, so it feels like a Band-Aid can take care of it, but that’s not true!
Liposuction brings wounds to the body mainly under the skin. Liposuction is like using a straw to suck out a layer of flesh under the skin of an apple, and the remaining skin and the newly exposed flesh come into direct contact. As long as the place where the fat is sucked out, the subcutaneous actually will be more or less injured, and all need some time to recuperate. Then, let’s talk about what to do after liposuction to recover faster and better.
1, do not open the dressing by yourself to avoid contaminating the wound.
No matter what liposuction method you use, after all the changes are the same, all of them are sucking out fat through negative pressure. Before liposuction, doctors will play anesthetic swelling solution under your skin, half for anesthesia and half to help you suck out fat better.
However, there will be more or less residual swelling fluid injected, which is not harmful to the body, but the wound may have more oozing liquid, so do not open the dressing by yourself after surgery, if you feel that too much liquid is oozing from the dressing, you can go to the hospital and let the nurse help you change to a new dressing to avoid contamination of the wound and scarring.
2, after surgery to wear shapewear, can help you shape, recovery can also be faster Oh!
After surgery, in order to ensure the shaping effect and restore skin elasticity, you can wear elastic shapewear. Because the continuous pressure has a shaping effect on the fatty tissue remaining under the skin, it can make the skin flatter, and the shapewear can also fix the fatty layer of the skin in the right position, so the recovery is faster.
In addition, the compression effect of shapewear can reduce wound bleeding and tissue edema, avoid hematoma or seroma caused by the local accumulation of exudate, and speed up post-operative recovery.
3, do not immediately take painkillers, do not smoke, drink and pay attention to diet
It is inevitable that there will be some pain after surgery, but you should not take painkillers containing aspirin immediately, because these drugs are not conducive to wound healing and may aggravate bleeding. Also, do not smoke and drink, do not eat spicy and stimulating food, and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits in order to recover faster.
4, the early recovery period to carry out some light activities, can speed up the recovery
Light activities at the early stage of recovery can speed up the recovery. In the early recovery period, light activities should be carried out, about a week after surgery, you can often take a walk or something, which can speed up blood flow and promote recovery.
However, strenuous sports like basketball and cycling should be kept away from. Such strenuous sports will not only hinder the recovery, but may also make your liposuction area bruise or wound collapse.
5, liposuction will be swollen after, but slowly will subside
The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than you would have before the liposuction, but it will slowly go down, and the time it takes for the swelling to go down will vary from person to person.
6.After liposuction, you can start eating and drinking with confidence? Then you should wait for the fat to return.
It is true that liposuction will make you lose a lot of weight at a visible rate, but! If you start to eat and drink after liposuction, you’ll be waiting to gain weight back! The number of fat cells is constant when you become an adult, and liposuction can directly reduce the number of fat cells, so you will lose weight.
If you continue to eat and drink after liposuction, the volume of fat cells will continue to increase and you will still gain weight back. So, remember, liposuction is only an effective means of weight loss and shaping, after becoming thin you still need to pay attention to exercise and rest time, and eat less fatty junk food, in order to maintain a good figure!