I. Precautions on the day of surgery Fasting and water fasting for 6 hours after surgery, soothe the child to avoid loud crying or forceful coughing, pay attention to whether the child has frequent swallowing movements, and gently spit out any secretions in the mouth so as to observe whether the wound is bleeding. You can eat and drink water after 6 hours after surgery. On the day after surgery, you should eat liquid food, such as ice cream (do not contain hard fruit), warm milk, etc. Try not to use a straw.
Second, postoperative diet From the next day after surgery, you can give warm liquid or semi-liquid or soft food, which should be light and nutritious, such as thin rice, rotten noodles, steamed eggs, light lean meat soup, chicken soup, fish soup, green vegetable soup, tomato soup, etc. It is not advisable to eat too greasy food and sweet food, otherwise it will easily lead to indigestion. It is not advisable to drink food with slag, such as cereal, etc. Diet with slag can often be left in the surgical wound, causing pain and bleeding. Liquid diet should not be too hot, too hot diet can stimulate the wound, causing pain or bleeding, should not eat too much cold drinks. Although cold drinks can help relieve pain, they often cause gastrointestinal discomfort and even diarrhea. Special attention should be paid to avoid eating fried, fried, spicy and hard food, and normal food can be eaten only after the pseudomembrane has completely fallen off. After eating, gargle gently with mouthwash to keep the mouth clean. It takes about two weeks for the trauma to heal, and normal diet can be resumed after two weeks.
Postoperative complications and treatment 1. Bleeding in the operation area: primary bleeding and secondary bleeding, bleeding in the operation area on the day of surgery is called primary bleeding. Secondary bleeding occurs 5-7 days after surgery, mainly due to ruptured blood vessels during the gradual detachment of pseudomembranes in the surgical area. If you find that the child repeatedly vomits large amounts of blood and blood clots, go to the nearest larger hospital in a timely manner.
2. Pain: Pain is often obvious 24-48 hours after surgery. Encourage the patient to eat cold liquid food and speak appropriately early, which can reduce the pain caused by pharyngeal muscle spasm, encourage the child to drink more water to moisten the mucous membrane, and add analgesic if necessary.
3.Nasal obstruction and runny nose: After adenoid surgery, due to the swelling of mucous membrane in nasopharynx and poor drainage of nasal secretions, children often have symptoms such as nasal obstruction and increased nasal runny nose.
4, fever: generally 2-3 days after surgery, the child’s body temperature will rise, but mostly below 38 degrees, this is a normal phenomenon, mostly related to low water intake, absorption of heat, etc., no special treatment, parents should not be nervous, chasing after the doctor’s buttocks to add drugs. 38.5 degrees or more before the need to deal with.
5.Symptoms of upper sensation: due to a variety of reasons after surgery, the child’s resistance will be reduced, when there is a high fever, cough aggravation, obvious nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat aggravation and other symptoms, mostly upper respiratory tract infection, according to the cold treatment can be, not necessarily a complication of surgery, do not think too much, 3-5 days will be fine.