What to expect after inguinal hernia surgery

  1.Unless there is another special medical advice, the diet should be semi-liquid for about 1 week after returning home, and try to avoid excessive straining.  2.Keep the stool unobstructed, do not be constipated. If straining to defecate occurs, you can use corkage by yourself, if you cannot handle it well, return to hospital for treatment. Avoid urinary effort, such as urinary effort, lower abdominal distension and pain, or even urinary retention, return to the hospital for indwelling urinary catheter.  3.Wound pain, you can buy Loxone oral pain relief, take not more than 1 week.  4.Wound such as bleeding, redness, swelling, heat, pain, exudate, gauze penetration, high fever, please return to the hospital immediately for medical treatment.  5.The most superficial layer of the wound is sutured with cosmetic thread, which does not need to be removed; due to personal physical reasons, individual use of skin setter suture, it looks like the incision will have “staples”, this kind of need to return to the hospital 7-10 days after surgery to remove stitches, the inner layer is sutured with sheep intestine thread, which can be absorbed by itself and does not need to be removed.  The wound should not be exposed to water for 7 days after surgery, and after 7 days you can take a bath as usual.  7.The hernia band should be worn for 15 days, and the lap band does not need to be worn after discharge from the hospital.