Whether or not you can take probiotics after surgery for intestinal polyps is symptom and time dependent and should follow your physician’s instructions. It is generally recommended that those with indications for additional use gradually add them 2-3 days after surgery, and patients need to use antibiotics at the same time at an interval of more than 2 hours.
Probiotics have the ability to regulate intestinal flora and improve symptoms of diarrhea, constipation and indigestion. Postoperative intestinal polyp patients with the above symptoms, you can eat probiotics to improve symptoms, but whether you can take medication related to surgical operations, for those who have bleeding, infection or large trauma need to be fasted for 2-3 days after surgery, gradually resume eating and drinking, and then add drugs as appropriate.
In addition, for some polyps larger or more people, after the intestinal polyp surgery is prone to fever, elevated blood infection, the doctor needs a comprehensive assessment of the use of antibiotics, such as ceftazidime, etc. for anti-infection or prevention of infection and other treatments, the general use of antibiotics is recommended to be used separately from the probiotics, the use of medication at least two hours apart in the time of the above.
After surgery for intestinal polyps should pay attention to bed rest, avoid excessive activity, pay attention to observe the presence of abdominal pain, fever, blood in the stool and other symptoms, the recovery diet should be slowly transition from liquid food to normal.