What should I do if I feel itchy after surgery?

Surgery is the most common method for treating diseases. It has great advantages. It can usually completely remove the lesions and bring vitality to people's health. However, the side effects of surgery are also very serious, because surgery requires artificially creating wounds on the body, which adds huge postoperative pain to the patient, and most patients will experience symptoms of itching on the body after surgery. Let’s take a look at what to do if you feel itchy after surgery?

There are two types of itching after surgery: physiological itching and pathological itching. In fact, new blood vessels and nerves need to grow connective tissue, and these new blood vessels and nerves are particularly dense and crowded together. Newly formed nerve endings are easily stimulated, and because their functions are not yet complete and the sensation is vague, a feeling of itching occurs, which is physiological itching. Wound inflammation, foreign matter in the wound, etc. are pathological causes of wound itching.

In fact, for physiological itching of wounds, we generally do not need to do any special treatment, just avoid scratching when it itches. If the patient really can't stand it, he or she can use some anti-itching drugs under the guidance of a doctor.

For wound itching caused by wound inflammation, you should first pay attention to controlling wound inflammation and rinse the wound with normal saline every day. At the same time, you can also use antibiotics in a targeted manner based on the results of bacterial culture, which is very helpful for the treatment of the disease.

Patients with wound healing should also pay more attention to their daily diet, drink less or avoid alcohol, eat less or no irritating foods such as chili peppers, onions, garlic, etc., so as not to aggravate the itching. It is advisable to eat more fresh green vegetables and fruits, eggs, lean meat, pork skin and other foods rich in vitamins and essential amino acids for the human body.

In short, we should treat itchy wounds after surgery differently according to the symptoms. Once the patient develops symptoms of long-term itching and non-healing of the wound, using products such as Yu's Wound Healing Recipe to promote wound healing and changing the dressing can help the patient get rid of the disease as soon as possible. I hope the patient’s wounds heal soon and he will be happy and healthy every day.