After abdominoplasty

Abdominoplasty is very difficult and painful procedure, it can cause unpleasant feelings to the patient and some pain in the operated area of a belly. The patient can also feel a kind of pressure and pain when breathing, difficult is also walk when standing.

Immediately after abdominoplasty

Immediately after abdominoplasty, the patient has to wear the compression elastic pants holding the whole belly. Its main function is to strip the operating area and lower the post-operative swellings and bleeding. In the first moments the pressure might be unpleasant but it comes over in few moments. Patient may also register drainage pipes used for draining the accumulated fluid. Drainage pipes are normally removed after 24 - 48 hours.

Reducing paint

The abdominoplasty brings really painful states in the early period of time after the operation so the strong painkillers and diffusion solution are given to the patients as well as drugs against thrombosis and some kind of antibiotics. The absorbable threads are used for the stitches near the bellybutton and a belly which means another pain is reduced and the abdominoplasty is becoming more acceptable.

Abdominoplasty requires hospitalization

The abdominoplasty is an operation after which the patient must stay in a clinic for few days. The length of an operation is individual, depending on how fast is the healing process working and how is the regeneration ability of a body. As a rule the patient stays at home at least one week or ten days more.

Controls after abdominoplasty

The first dressing which is required by the abdominoplasty is in the most cases done one week after the aesthetic plastic surgery. The following checks and dressings, if needed, are made individually according to the situation of each patient and according to the opinion of a plastic surgeon of abdominoplasty.

Physical exercise after abdominoplasty

The abdominoplasty is a surgery after which the patient should be careful and should avoid all of the physical exercise that could be painful for him. It is essential to stay calm at least for 6 weeks after the end of a restorative phase. Constant feelings of tension and higher intensity, caused by the abdominoplasty, can appear during a period of several weeks. But after some time all of this is resolving.

Abdominoplasty and its effect

Abdominoplasty is a surgery which brings long lasting results if there are no significant weight changes appearing. If the patient has a lot of subcutaneous fat, the abdominoplasty can be completed by the tummy tuck liposuction after some time which can strengthen the resulting affect.

Period after abdominoplasty is individual

The abdominoplasty and its process of healing and recovery is individual, consisting in the body´s ability of a recovery and integrity of each patient when respecting the post-operative rules. The omission of smoking is the main and most important instruction lowering the process of healing and causing some unwanted complications.

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