After you regain consciousness, you will see pads soaked in iced saline solution over your eyes. These make the swellings and bruises after surgery smaller. Your vision will be blurry due to the eye ointment that was applied to your eye after the operation. You may also have tears from your eyes, which is due to swelling, which will go away during the first week of surgery.
Drinking fluids, walking gently and slowly, and monitoring the eye pads are some of the measures you should follow. Should every 24 Change these pads once an hour.
To remove the pads 3 You should visit the next day. Removing these pads causes little discomfort. To relieve this discomfort, take painkillers one hour before visiting.
until the 24 One hour after the operation, put the pads soaked in ice water on your eyes. Pads every 20 until the 30 Change the minute. Pads should be kept wet at all times, the weight of the water along with the temperature will help keep the bruise small. Place a small bag of frozen peas or corn on the eye pads. Be careful not to put the bag directly on the skin. Place a tissue or towel between the bag and your skin.
While sleeping, use a cotton swab to remove excess ointment from the stitches. Then apply the eye ointment on the seams of the eyelid and the inner part of the eyelid. Do this as long as the stitches are there 2 Do it once a day (Morning and afternoon). But only apply the ointment in the lower eyelid when sleeping. Rubbing this ointment inside the lower eyelid causes dimness and blurred vision, so the best time for this is immediately before the evening rest.. Sutures that are lubricated and slippery with ointment cause less pain when removed.
Dr Behnam khorami
