What’s with the hard flesh near the incision?

The appearance of hard flesh near the incision may be due to wound healing, proliferative scarring, and infection. 1. Wound healing: Fiber proliferation during the healing process may form hard knots. This is a normal behavior, no need to worry too much. 2. Proliferative scarring: excessive repair of local fibrous tissues may lead to hard texture and poor elasticity of local skin tissues. According to the patient’s condition, medication can be taken, or keloid contracture release surgery can be performed. 3. Infection: If the skin is hard near the incision in a short period of time, attention should be paid to exclude local infection. If it is localized infection, in addition to local hardness, there may be redness, swelling, pain and other manifestations. In addition, the hardness of the meat near the incision may also be a foreign body reaction caused by the local suture, if the patient is accompanied by redness, swelling and pain, you can consider removing the local suture. It is recommended that patients should pay attention to the hardness near the incision and go to the hospital if necessary. During this period, patients should pay attention to avoid local stimulation, such as scratching the affected area. At the same time, they should eat a light diet and avoid eating stimulating, spicy and greasy food.