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Pus Discharge After C-section. How To Heal?
my wife has a surgery .. during child birth ... now 4 months already passed but still pus coming out from the surgery area ....
Dr. doing dressing every alternate day ... but still no much improvements noted..
still white-yellowish liquid is coming out of it..
could you please advice me how come over come this issue,...
Dr. doing dressing every alternate day ... but still no much improvements noted..
still white-yellowish liquid is coming out of it..
could you please advice me how come over come this issue,...
Tue, 16 Jul 2013
Hi,
Thanks for writing in.
From what you have written, looks like there is an wound infection under the c section scar in the lower abdomen. This should not be neglected any further.
There are two things to be done right now:
1. Please get a ultrasound scan or CT scan of abdomen to know how the healing is going on under the scar. Any significant pus formation and its amount will also be known.
2. Consult a surgeon and get a culture and sensitivity of the pus and see which medicine (antibiotic) works and start her on that medicine and complete the course. If there is lot of pus inside then, the surgeon may have to make a small incision and drain through a minor surgery.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for writing in.
From what you have written, looks like there is an wound infection under the c section scar in the lower abdomen. This should not be neglected any further.
There are two things to be done right now:
1. Please get a ultrasound scan or CT scan of abdomen to know how the healing is going on under the scar. Any significant pus formation and its amount will also be known.
2. Consult a surgeon and get a culture and sensitivity of the pus and see which medicine (antibiotic) works and start her on that medicine and complete the course. If there is lot of pus inside then, the surgeon may have to make a small incision and drain through a minor surgery.
Hope this helps.
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