Treatment of bleeding after tonsillectomy

Many people with tonsil diseases will eventually accept their doctor's advice and undergo tonsil surgery. Some patients are found to have bleeding after tonsillectomy, but they do not know how to deal with it after tonsillectomy, which may affect their postoperative recovery. The first thing to do after tonsillectomy is to stop the bleeding. If there is pain, the pain must be relieved. Let’s learn about the details together.

1. Prevent bleeding

Within 24 hours after the operation, since the wound has not healed completely, some oozing blood may be mixed with saliva and spit out. This is a normal phenomenon. If you find that blood is coming out of your mouth from time to time, it means that the wound is bleeding. The simplest way is to use cold compress: use ice cubes, ice bags, or towels or cloth soaked in ice water or cold water, and apply them to the forehead and both sides of the head and neck. If you keep spitting out blood clots from your mouth and the amount increases, you need to go to the hospital for further bleeding control.

2. Relieve pain

There will be varying degrees of pain for a period of time after tonsillectomy. To help relieve pain, you can drink cold drinks appropriately or use cold compresses (same method as above). Pressing or acupuncture on the Hegu point can also have a certain effect. It should be said that the pain will gradually subside and disappear from the second day after the operation. It is worth pointing out that painkillers should not be used casually.

3. Pay attention to body temperature

After the operation, due to tissue damage during the operation and the absorption of some exudate in the wound, fever of varying degrees may occur. Under normal circumstances, the body temperature will not exceed 38°C. If the body temperature exceeds 38°C, appropriate cooling measures should be considered after excluding the possibility of secondary infection of the wound.

4. Rinse your mouth promptly

After the operation, due to some exudate from the wound, coagulated blood clots and residues in the mouth, there is a fishy smell in the mouth from time to time. Especially after the wound is infected, the bad breath is more serious. Rinsing your mouth with some mouthwash immediately after surgery can help clean the wound and reduce inflammation.

5. Eat a healthy diet

The wound after tonsil surgery is in the mouth. Due to the pain, the patient often refuses to eat or does not eat food, which is not conducive to the recovery of the wound. Generally speaking, within six hours after surgery, patients can eat some cold liquid food, such as milk, soy milk, malted milk, nutritious soup, lotus root powder, ice cream, ice bricks, etc. When the condition stabilizes, you can eat some semi-liquid food, such as porridge, soft noodles, bread, etc. After a week, you can eat soft rice and steamed bread, but avoid eating fish and meat products with fish bones or meat bones, so as not to damage the tonsil wounds and cause bleeding during chewing and swallowing.