How long after vocal cord polyp surgery can you smoke?

Patients will heal after vocal cord polyp surgery in about a month, if you want to smoke, try to smoke after a month, but smoking will still have an irritating effect on the patient’s vocal cord mucosa, so if you can quit smoking, try to quit. Post-operative vocal fold polyps patients need to rest for about a week to avoid aggravating the friction of the vocal folds, especially likely to aggravate the patient’s vocal fold congestion, edema, hoarseness, which is not conducive to recovery. After the operation, you still need to cooperate with antibiotics and sprays to reduce the patient’s symptoms, such as spray with open throat sword spray, or to the hospital to perform budesonide suspension nebulization inhalation treatment, for the recovery of the patient’s voice hoarseness after surgery are helpful, diet as light as possible, try not to smoke, drink alcohol.