How to reduce the swelling of lip stitches wound

Patients with swelling in the wound after lip stitches, according to the different causes of swelling, different methods can be taken to reduce swelling: 1, if the patient does not have serious infection after lip stitches, swelling caused by local tissue damage, you can improve local blood circulation and strengthen anti-infection treatment by taking oral swelling pain, amoxicillin and other drugs to promote faster recovery of local tissue damage, which can effectively reduce the swelling of the lips 2.If the patient’s lips are swollen after stitches with local infection, as well as more fluid and pus accumulation. At this time, it is often accompanied by obvious local pain and fluctuating sensation, need to remove the local silk thread as soon as possible, open the wound, remove the local necrotic tissue, can use hydrogen peroxide, vital iodine, saline rinse the wound, while intravenous infusion of ceftazidime and other anti-inflammatory drugs to strengthen anti-infection treatment. After the local inflammation is controlled, the swelling of the lips can be relieved more quickly.