Changing your own medication after anal fistula surgery needs to keep two aspects in mind, step 1 needs to be local disinfection, and step 2 needs to keep the drainage open to avoid the formation of pseudo healing or secondary infection, etc. It is generally not recommended to change the medicine by yourself, so as not to affect the prognosis.
1. Pay attention to local disinfection: it is recommended to use iodophor to carry out local disinfection in a timely manner, need to clean up the secretions around the anus and anal fistula wounds in the dirt, clean up with warm water or 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution sitz bath, not only play a role in cleaning and promote local blood circulation, anti-inflammatory and reduce swelling for the recovery of the wound.
2. Keep the drainage smooth: when changing the medicine, you can put a drainage gauze on the incision position, which can effectively ensure the drainage smooth, avoid premature healing outside the wound, forming false healing, affecting the later recovery. At the same time to ensure smooth drainage, to avoid bacterial reproduction within the secretion infection, causing secondary infection.
Postoperative dressing change is more important, if there is no correct dressing change may aggravate the condition, more likely to lead to infection, the formation of false healing, delayed healing of the wound, etc., therefore, it is not recommended to blindly choose to change their own medication, please find a professional doctor to receive postoperative treatment.