Considerations for Rib Nose Padding

The precautions for rib bone nose pad mainly include keeping clean, forbidding touching the incision, reducing activities, eating reasonably, and taking medication as prescribed by the doctor. 1. Keep clean: the rib bone taking part and the nose incision should be kept clean and dry. The back of the nose needs to be immobilized with a splint under the doctor’s instruction, and small gauze should be stuffed in the nostrils with incisions to compress the wounds to relieve pain and prevent infection. After the operation, you can use iodine povidone to wipe your nose every day to avoid infection. 2. Prohibit touching the incision: Prohibit touching the incision with your hands and avoiding water on the incision after the rib rhinoplasty. 3. Reduce activities: Pay attention to reasonable rest and forbid doing strenuous exercise to prevent the position of the prosthesis from moving and the ribs from being deformed or dislocated. 4. Reasonable diet: pay attention to diet after surgery, avoid eating spicy stimulating food or seafood and other products. Do not smoke or drink alcohol. 5. Take medicines as prescribed by doctor: you can take antibiotics for 3 to 5 days under the guidance of professional doctor to reduce inflammation, swelling and prevent infection. For example, ceftazidime, amoxicillin and so on. Intranasal sutures are removed in about 7 days. All in all, after the rib bone pad nose, must pay attention to the wound care, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital for surgery.