Precautions after lumbar disc surgery

After lumbar disc surgery, there are several considerations: 1, avoid water and contamination of the wound site, otherwise it will lead to wound infection and disc site infection. 2, the diet must be light, digestible, easy to absorb, avoid flatulence food, such as soy products, milk as far as possible, otherwise it is easy to flatulence, and after surgery due to the appearance of bruising, will stimulate the Peritoneum, resulting in the slowing of intestinal peristalsis, so it is easy to appear bloating, constipation, in the usual hands for more clockwise abdominal rubbing, and to warm water bags of hot compresses to increase intestinal peristalsis. 3, avoid sitting, squatting and bending movements, because the protruding place is removed, but there are still a lot of intervertebral discs and nucleus pulposus and other tissues between the vertebral body, in bending, sitting, squatting, will lead to the protrusion of these discs again, there may be pressure on the nerve root again.