Pre-operative recommendations
To ensure your safety during the intervention that is going to be carried out with Dr. Pablo Casas, you must follow the following advice:
- If you are pregnant or think you are pregnant, you should notify them.
- Do not eat or drink water 8 hours before the scheduled time for your surgery.
- You should not enter with metallic elements in the operating room (rings, necklaces, earrings, piercings …).
- You should not take makeup to the operating room, or paint on the nails of your feet and hands.
- If you take any medication regularly you should tell the doctor, before your surgery.
- From 10 days before your surgery you should avoid taking ASPIRIN, IBUPROPHENE, ANTI-INFLAMMATORY and HERBOLARY PRODUCTS, as they can interfere with blood clotting in the face of surgery.
- The day of surgery must carry the preoperative tests, analytical and electrocardiogram
Postoperative recommendations
- MEDICATION
- The one prescribed in the discharge report.
- You should not take aspirin or derivatives at least during the first 10 days.
- MOBILITY
- Do not exercise or great efforts (lifting heavy objects) in the first week.
- Contact sports should be avoided the first month.
- Do not sunbathe during the first month.
- If for some reason it is exposed to the sun, use creams with full protection and a hat with a visor for the first month.
- TRAVELS
- After 7 days you can travel normally, even by plane.
- NUTRITION
- You can take a normal diet.
- SLEEPING
- It is recommended to sleep with your head slightly elevated during the first days, to avoid inflammation.
- CLEANLINESS
- You can shower daily, but without wetting the nasal splint, body and head separately.
- Frequent washing of both nostrils with physiological saline.
- You can wash your teeth normally. It is normal that there is some bruising on the upper lip.
- Once the splint is removed, you can shower normally, wet your nose, apply your creams and make-up.
- SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
- You will avoid smoking and drinking alcohol the first week.
- You will avoid blowing your nose.
- If you sneeze you will do it with your mouth open.
- Ice wrapped in a wipe will be applied over the cheeks, forehead and lips, during the first days.
- Avoid swimming for at least 1 month.
- Do not wear glasses or sunglasses, during the first month. Contact lenses can be used the day after surgery.
- Clean the spots with an ear swab dipped in hydrogen peroxide several times a day for the first week.
- IT’S NORMAL
- During the first week the mucus will be a bit bloody.
- Que During the first few days you will not breathe well through your nose.
- You may notice the formation of scabs on the inside of the nose, tightness and occasionally slight headache.
- The bruises under the eyes will disappear after 7/10 days.
- The tip of the nose will feel somewhat numb and asleep during the first weeks.