Limit activities that could make you fall or put more pressure on your face. Some of these are bending over, holding your breath, and tightening muscles during bowel movements. Avoid heavy lifting and hard physical activity for 1 to 2 weeks. You should be able to go back to work or school 1 week after surgery. Do not take baths or showers for 24 hours.
Your nurse will show you how to clean your nose area with Q-tips and hydrogen peroxide or another cleaning solution if needed. You may go outside a few days after surgery, but do not stay in the sun for more than 15 minutes. Follow up with your health care provider as you have been told.
You may need to have stitches removed. Your provider will want to check your healing. Septoplasty - classic and endoscopic. Operative Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; chap Do not take pain medication on an empty stomach, as it may cause nausea.
Use of narcotic pain medication can lead to constipation and may require the use of stool softeners. Antibiotics are to be started the evening of the surgery. The oral steroids are to be started the day after surgery.
It is normal to have some bleeding during the first 48 hours after surgery. If the bleeding becomes steady or severe, spray your nose with squirts of Afrin oxymetazoline nasal spray to help control the bleeding. If bleeding persists call our office and inform staff. We will place nasal splints at the end of your surgery. Splints help to keep the septum in place while it heals. The splints are removed at your first post operative visit 1 week after surgery. The splints are secured in place with a stitch.
Blood tinged pinkish discharge and clot formations are normal, if you have a severe nose bleed that does not stop after applying pressure, ice, and Afrin contact our office. A low grade temperature, below Minimal if any nasal airflow during 1st week following surgery due to internal swelling and placement of splints within the nose , these will be removed at your 1 week post-op visit.
Large amounts of thick blood-tinged mucous in the nose and throat. Elevation of body temperature ranging from degrees for days. Tingling and numbness in the tip of the nose and front teeth due to internal swelling.
Not only can it feel a little disheartening, but it can make you question whether your septoplasty procedure or turbinate reduction was worth it to begin with. This is a necessary operation when part of your nasal passages become obstructed and begin preventing airflow to easily pass through your nasal cavity. Made out of bone and covered by soft tissue, turbinates are thin structures aligning the nasal cavity. They act as radiators that help heat and humidify the air that filters through the nose.
This process allows air we inhale to heat, balance out moisture, and be cleaned before it passes into our lungs. Turbinates are important to our body because they can help remove potential bacteria in the air. When inflamed you may experience more than congestion when it comes to breathing. Symptoms include but are not limited to:.
Turbinate reduction operations are generally not very time-consuming and are in-office or outpatient procedures done with septoplasty or balloon sinuplasty.
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