How long it takes to recover from a deviated septum is related to whether the patient has inflammatory nasal lesions, whether there is perforation after surgery, and other factors, and cannot be generalized.
For simple septal deviation correction surgery, if the patient does not have inflammatory lesions such as chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, etc., and there is no mucosal breakage or a small amount of mucosal breakage at the time of surgery, the recovery is usually faster and normal work and life can be resumed after 1 week. For deviated septum caused by chronic inflammation or septum surgery with perforation, inflammation and more mucosal breakage, the recovery time will be longer and it may take 1-2 months to return to the normal septum shape and several months to restore the normal function.
After septum deviation correction surgery, we should pay attention to nasal moisturizing and strengthen nasal cleaning, which will help speed up the recovery of nasal mucosa.