Normal urination after thyroid surgery primarily represents essentially normal urinary function and the return of voluntary urination after anesthesia.
The thyroid gland is located in the neck, usually most of the thyroid surgery will not cause major impact on urinary, digestive and other system functions; anesthesia may have an impact on urinary function.
Thyroid surgery is already a mature clinical technology means of treatment, most of the postoperative day can get out of bed, less impact on the systemic function, serious hyperthyroidism and other diseases need to pay attention to the prevention of complications; postoperative urination indicates that the urinary system function is basically normal.
The common anesthesia methods for thyroid surgery are cervical plexus anesthesia or general anesthesia; cervical plexus anesthesia does not have much effect on the waist and below the abdomen, and basically does not affect the function of urination.
General anesthesia, due to anesthetic inhibition of urinary nerves, may not be able to urinate on its own for a period of time after surgery, which can be treated with indwelling urinary catheter, acupuncture and hot compresses, etc. Normal urination after the surgery means that the patient is awake from anesthesia, and the function of urination is basically restored.
After thyroid surgery, we should pay attention to observe the bleeding of the incision, and notify the supervising physician in time if there is any uncomfortable symptom or abnormality.