Post Liposuction Recovery Precautions

Good post-operative results are the common pursuit of both surgeons and candidates. By finding an experienced and skilled surgeon to perform the surgery, the risk of the surgery will be lower and the post-operative result will be better. However, for liposuction surgery, excellent surgical technique also requires proper post-operative care to achieve a best post-operative result. Today I will focus on explaining the precautions after liposuction surgery: 1, diet 1, 3-4 weeks after surgery, avoid eating spicy and stimulating food (for example: chili, seafood, etc.) 2, 4 weeks after surgery, avoid smoking and alcohol. 3, it is recommended to drink more plain water, milk, and eat more vegetables and fruits. Chicken, duck, river fish, eggs, etc. can be consumed. Second, the care of the wound 1, the second day after surgery wound dressing change 2, 7 days after surgery is prohibited to touch the water to avoid wound infection. 3.If the wound is accidentally contaminated or infiltrated within 7 days, apply iodophor swab to disinfect in time. 4.The stitches are removed 7 days after surgery, and the attending doctor will follow up. 5, 24 hours after the removal of stitches before normal touching water (washing face, bathing). III. Post-operative care of the surgical area 1. There will be pink liquid outflow at the eye of the needle on the day of surgery. It is mainly swelling fluid and a very small amount of exuded blood. This phenomenon will basically disappear the next day. The outflow of swelling fluid is beneficial to tissue recovery, so there is no need to be afraid or worried. 2. After surgery, there will be swelling in the surgical area and some patients may experience bruising. There will be temporary numbness and insensitive sensation in the area. 3.Obvious swelling usually subsides gradually one week after surgery, and facial liposuction patients can put on light makeup after one week. The fading of bruising is usually in about 1-2 weeks time and varies from person to person. 4, 2-3 days after surgery, you can get out of bed, facial surgery patients can apply hot compresses after 3 days to help the swelling and bruising subside, waist and abdomen and legs patients can consider hot compresses and massage after a week to speed up recovery. Hot compresses must pay attention to the temperature to avoid burns. 5. Early on, facial surgery patients are recommended to eat soft and easy-to-chew food, avoid nuts and hard food, and avoid making too large an expression. Patients with surgery on the waist, abdomen and limbs are prohibited from doing strenuous exercise in the early postoperative period. 4. Wearing of shapewear 1. Choose a shapewear or mask of appropriate size 2. The shapewear or mask should completely wrap the surgical area 3. Appropriate compression in the early stage can reduce the swelling and bruising of tissues. 4.Wearing for more than 2 – 3 months is recommended for waist, abdomen and limb area surgery. Facial surgery patients need to wear it 24 hours a day for the first 1 week after surgery, and then for 2-3 months to ensure that it is worn for more than 10 hours a day. Wearing in the middle and late stages of surgery is to use external force to give the tissue a helping hand, which is conducive to tissue recovery and plasticity. Five, other precautions 1, pigmentation: liposuction site darkening, mostly due to increased melanin or hematoxylin deposition in the epidermal cells, natural fading takes a few months. You can use some drugs to accelerate the removal according to the doctor’s advice. 2, post-operative rebound: the number of fat cells in adults is constant in general. Liposuction is effective in reducing the number of fat cells, unless post-operative overeating or endocrine disorders cause the cell volume to increase again, which may lead to re-fattening. So you can’t do anything arbitrary after surgery, you still have to maintain a healthy diet. 3.Surgery again: If you are not satisfied with the post-operative effect, the repair surgery needs to be at least 6 months from the last surgery. 4.The main effect of liposuction is shaping, not really weight reduction, liposuction ≠ weight reduction! Liposuction can only suck away the subcutaneous fat and make your body shape look thinner, but your weight will not actually change too much. The reason is that fat density is small and muscle density is large, so the volume of one pound of muscle and one pound of fat is obviously larger. 5, liposuction is more suitable age is recommended above 18 years old and below 50 years old, because the recovery after liposuction is also related to the state of the skin, because there is less layer of fat, the strength of skin elasticity and toughness will affect the post-operative effect.