What to Expect After Surgery for Intestinal Polyps

After surgery for intestinal polyps, you should pay attention to adjusting diet, proper rest, regular defecation, closely observe your own state, and inform your doctor in time if there is any abnormality. 1. Adjust the diet: fast for 1 day after surgery for intestinal polyps, and the diet should be based on semi-liquid food for 3 days after surgery. Such as soy milk, raw pear juice. After that, you should avoid eating fatty meat, nuts, chili peppers and other greasy, hard, rough, spicy food, do not drink coffee, wine and stimulating beverages. 2. Appropriate rest: after the operation, you should rest in bed for 1 day, and it is recommended to reduce the activities within 1 week after the operation, especially avoid squatting, breath holding and other postures that increase the abdominal pressure, and don’t sit for a long time, stand for a long time or be overworked. After the surgery, we should also pay attention to abstinence from sexual intercourse, avoid frequent sexual intercourse leading to intestinal mucosal congestion. 3. Regular defecation: After the surgery of intestinal polyps, you should also pay attention to the habit of regular defecation, you can choose to eat celery juice, enoki mushrooms, carrots, bitter gourd, carrots and other foods to promote defecation, and try to make the stools as thin as possible, preferably paste-like. After surgery for intestinal polyps, it is important to pay attention to post-operative care and inform your doctor in case of infection, bleeding or perforation.