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Reply to "Leakage from incision"

Discourage squeezing the incision! This could backfire and cause the internal sutures to fail and expose him to an infection that is deep, as opposed to a simple external one. Let the surgeon mess with it if it needs it.

 

A teaspoon a day is no big deal, but let it drain on its own. I had a peritoneal leak that was saturating heavy dressings in a few hours. That thing took a couple of months to heal and it was the beginning of a cascade of complications that were rather huge (with my presacral abscess being the worst). The leak did not cause the presacral abscess, but I did wind up with a bad incisional infection.

 

Jan

 

 

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