Bowel obstruction ten days after hysterectomy should be treated with general treatment, medication or surgery according to the severity.
1. General treatment: if intestinal obstruction occurs after hysterectomy, it is necessary to fast and water according to the requirements, in order to prevent water electrolyte disorders, it is necessary to strictly follow the requirements of intravenous rehydration, injection of drugs, mainly to replenish the water electrolytes as well as nutrients as the principle. If the patient is bedridden for a long period of time, he needs to turn over and pat his back regularly to prevent lung infection.
2. Drug therapy: mostly due to postoperative infections and inflammation, after diagnosis, patients should follow the doctor’s instructions to take antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, such as cefixime, metronidazole and other drugs, and if necessary, they should be timely supplementation of saline, potassium chloride injection and dextrose injection, mainly to correct the principle of water and electrolytes. If normal defecation is affected by intestinal obstruction, Domperidone tablets can be taken orally as appropriate under doctor’s guidance.
3. Surgical treatment: If the intestinal obstruction is caused by postoperative adhesion, you can directly do the adhesion release surgery, and for the inflammatory stenosis caused by postoperative, you can consider intestinal resection anastomosis.
Hysterectomy ten days with intestinal obstruction, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time for examination, to understand the cause of intestinal obstruction and the severity, and then carry out formal treatment, in order to prevent more serious complications.