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What Causes Infection After An Open Heart Surgery?

My brother had open heart surgery got a infection afterwards , home on antibiotics for six weeks and wound vac , The problem is now he can only eat broth. And he keeps dry heaving. Do you know what this could be from? Been going on for over two weeks now,
Mon, 27 Jul 2015
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Hello welcome to HCM. it is a major operation. Sometimes infection do happen for the wounds. Nothing to worry Infection get healed after completing antibiotic course. For breathing needs chest wall movement which is cut during operation.Needs time to come back to normal. So he heaves. If you give less burden to other organs like Gastro intestinal tracts that less energy is used for digestion, the body can spend all its energy on healing of this operated site. So better let him take this soft diet. Wait for few more weeks, he will be totally normal. Hope i cleared your doubt
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What Causes Infection After An Open Heart Surgery?

Hello welcome to HCM. it is a major operation. Sometimes infection do happen for the wounds. Nothing to worry Infection get healed after completing antibiotic course. For breathing needs chest wall movement which is cut during operation.Needs time to come back to normal. So he heaves. If you give less burden to other organs like Gastro intestinal tracts that less energy is used for digestion, the body can spend all its energy on healing of this operated site. So better let him take this soft diet. Wait for few more weeks, he will be totally normal. Hope i cleared your doubt