Fever refers to fever, fever after sinusitis surgery, may be postoperative absorption of heat, but also with and bacterial or viral infection, need to be symptomatic and causative treatment through general measures, medication and other methods.
1. Symptomatic treatment: for patients with postoperative fever, physical measures need to be taken in time to deal with the use of warm water to wipe the popliteal fossa, groin, armpit, back and other parts of the blood vessels are dense, which is conducive to the body’s heat dissipation. You can also put a cooling patch on the forehead to help the body temperature drop. Secondly, during this period, patients need to drink more hot water to promote the body’s metabolism.
If the patient’s body temperature has reached 38.5 degrees, it is necessary to use antipyretic drugs, such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen, etc. under the guidance of the doctor.
2. Treatment of cause: postoperative fever may be caused by bacterial or viral infection due to decreased resistance of the body, according to the systematic examination to understand the cause of the disease, targeted selection of anti-infective treatment, bacterial infection can be used for amoxicillin clavulanate potassium, cefuroxime and other antibiotics, and viral infection can be used for ribavirin or oseltamivir and other anti-viral treatments.
Patients with postoperative fever need to actively reflect with the medical staff, and standardize the use of medication and treatment after clarifying the cause of the disease.