how long after surgery do you put ice on the wound?
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At Home After Surgery However, do not put the ice directly on top of the wound until it is completely healed (at least 14 days). 1  Place ice in a clean plastic bag. (You can use a small bag of frozen peas instead. 2  Put a single layer of towel between the ice bag and your skin. 3  Check your skin under the ice. It should be a little bit pink.
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After Wisdom Tooth Removal The ice packs should be left on for 20 minutes (then off for 20 minutes) while you are awake. After 36 hours, ice has no beneficial effect. If swelling or jaw stiffness has persisted for several days, there is no cause for alarm. This is a normal reaction to surgery.
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- Open Wound Care. 1  After surgery, go home and take it easy. Minimize bending or other exertion for several days. 2  After 1-2 day/s, remove the dressing. You may bathe regularly at this point, and allow the wound to get wet. 3  Clean the wound with hydrogen peroxide.
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Caring for Your Incision After Surgery Your doctor may apply skin tape after the stitches are removed. Skin tape provides additional wound support. The tape can be removed in 3 to 7 days. Healing skin may need months to regain most of its strength.
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- COLD PACKS FOR POST-OPERATIVE SWELLING . Cold packs are very important in the first 48 hours after surgery to reduce post-operative swelling. Use them 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off, to prevent damage to the skin. After 48 hours, you may still apply cold packs for comfort, but the therapeutic value will be diminished. Below are suggestions and comments regarding various types of cold packs:
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When is it the right time to use heat or ice to treat my injury? After a serious injury, do not use heat in the first 48 hours - use ice. If you mildly re-injure the area after it has started to heal, do not use heat until the new re-injury has stabilized. Wait 4 to 48 hours depending on the severity of the re-injury. If you have a lot of swelling and pain, don't use heat.
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Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (RICE) - Topic Overview 1 Ice. 2  Cold will reduce pain and swelling. 3  Apply an ice or cold pack right away to prevent or minimize swelling. 4  Apply the ice or cold pack for 10 to 20 minutes, 3 or more times a day. 5  After 48 to 72 hours, if swelling is gone, apply heat to the area that hurts. 6  Do not apply ice or heat directly to the skin.
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Ankle Sprains: Healing and Preventing Injury Ice can be left on your ankle for up to 20 minutes at a time. When your skin feels numb, it's time to remove the ice. Use ice treatments every 2 to 4 hours for the first 3 days after your injury. Ice treatments can consist of ice packs, ice slush baths or ice massages.
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AFTER DENTAL IMPLANT SURGERY However, swelling and discomfort may be minimized by the immediate use of ice packs. Ice packs should be applied to the side of the face over the area where the implant surgery was performed for the first 24 to 48 hours. Ice packs should be left on for 30 minutes and then left off for 30 minutes while awake. After 48 hours ice has no beneficial effect.
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Hand and Nerve Surgery: Post-Operative Instructions Elevate your arm above your heart. The best way to do this comfortably is to lie flat on your back with your hand resting on a few pillows. Elevate your hand for at least three days after surgery. An ice pack applied directly to your post-operative dressing will reduce swelling and inflammation at the surgical site. Ice can be particularly helpful for the first three days after surgery.
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Rib fracture - aftercare Apply an ice pack 20 minutes of every hour you are awake for the first 2 days, then 10 to 20 minutes 3 times daily as needed to reduce pain and swelling. Wrap the ice pack in a cloth before applying to the injured area.
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- The first thing you should do after a sprain is to put ice for the first 48-72 hours. The ice is used to decrease swelling and pain after an injury. You should always put ice … on an acute injury. It is also important to only ice for 15-20 minutes at a time. Leaving the ice on an injured area too long will cause more swelling instead of reducing the swelling. The body thinks that area is freezing and brings more blood flow to the area to protect it.
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After Wisdom Tooth Removal The packs should be applied to the sides of the face where surgery was performed. The ice packs should be applied in an on and off fashion, 20 minutes on the face and 20 minutes off the face for the first 24 hours. The ice only needs to be applied while you are awake. After 24 hours, ice has no beneficial effect.
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- Taking Care of Yourself After Surgery. 1  1. Leave the gauze on the surgical site for at least 30 minutes. Do not attempt to change the gauze as it will disrupt the clotting process. 2  2. Use tea bags. If your wounds are still bleeding at a steady pace after 12 hours or so, stop biting gauze and start biting moist tea bags.
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How to Properly Ice an Injury Get the ice on quickly. Icing is most effective in the immediate time period following an injury. The effect of icing diminishes significantly after about 48 hours. In an effort to reduce swelling and minimize inflammation, try to get the ice applied as soon as possible after the injury. Perform an ice massage..
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Using Ice and Cold Packs - Topic Overview 1 Wet a towel with cold water and squeeze it until it is just damp. Fold the towel, place it in a plastic bag, and freeze it for 15 minutes. Remove the towel from the bag and place it on the injured or sore area.  Ice pack. Put about 1 lb (0.5 kg) of ice in a plastic bag or ice pack you buy at the store.
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Heat and Ice Treatment for Pain Ideally, ice should be applied within 5-10 minutes of injury and for 20-30 minutes. This can be repeated every 2-3 hours or so whilst you are awake for the next 24-48 hours. After the first 48 hours, when bleeding should have stopped, the aim of treatment changes from restricting bleeding and swelling to getting the tissues remobilised with exercise and stretching.
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- Ice and Heat. Apply ice for 10 –15 minutes to the operated knee or thigh especially after exercise. Ice on the. operated knee while elevating the leg above your heart helps reduce swelling. Beginning 3-4 days after surgery, you may apply heat under the knee or to the thigh muscle well.
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After the Removal of Multiple Teeth Two baggies filled with ice, or ice packs should be applied to the sides of the face where surgery was performed. The ice packs should be left on continuously while you are awake. After 72 hours, ice has no beneficial effect. If swelling or jaw stiffness has persisted for several days, there is no cause for alarm. This is a normal reaction to surgery. Seventy-two hours following surgery, the application of moist heat to the sides of the face is beneficial in reducing the size of the swelling.
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All About Foot Bunion Surgery It can take up to six months for the cut bone to fully heal, and patients may continue to have swelling in the area of the surgery for up to six months. This is normal. The stitches used to close the incision are removed about ten days after surgery. Always keep your foot elevated for a minimum of one week after surgery. 2  Keep your foot dry for at least two weeks after surgery while the stitches are in. 3  Never change the dressing after surgery, this should be left to the podiatric surgeon. 4  The podiatric surgeon will remove the stitches within two weeks after surgery.
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Painful lymph nodes rib cage I have a chain of lymph nodes on my left rib cage that are tender to touch but movable. they are not that big in size but the stop before reaching my armpit. There has been pain there for over a week before ...
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Are You a Candidate for Surgery? Keep your foot elevated as much as possible for the first few days after surgery, and apply ice as recommended by your orthopaedic surgeon to relieve swelling and pain. You will have some swelling in your foot for about six months.
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- 2) Keep a bandage on the wound and change it every 2 days until there is no longer drainage. drainage may persist for up to 2 weeks from surgery. 3) Apply ice to shoulder for 20 minutes 3 times per day for 2 weeks. 4) Keep the wound dry until the stitches are removed. 1) Perform each directed exercise 2 times per day.
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- You don't need the extra blood, it only slows down the healing process. Ice applied very soon after an injury will slow the amount of blood flow in the area and actually speed up the healing by allowing the body to have access to the area.
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How to ice an injury properly The tissue thickness of the injured area determines the length of the ice application. Knees require 15 minutes, while thicker tissue, such as the quadriceps and hamstrings, requires 20 minutes. Thinner tissue, such as ankles and feet, requires approximately 10 minutes. Dont exceed the appropriate time frame.