What to eat after rhinitis surgery

If only medication is used to treat rhinitis, most of the time it only plays a controlling role and cannot cure rhinitis fundamentally. Therefore, some patients with severe rhinitis will choose surgical treatment for rhinitis, because surgical treatment for rhinitis is a fundamental way to solve rhinitis. Patients with rhinitis should also pay attention to their physical recovery after surgery and avoid certain foods. What can patients with rhinitis eat after surgery to help them recover?

1. Dietary considerations after sinusitis surgery:

1. Eat small meals frequently: Eat small meals frequently. If the fever subsides and the appetite improves, you can change to a semi-liquid diet, such as noodle soup, clear chicken soup noodles, small wontons, vegetable puree porridge, meat floss porridge, liver puree porridge, and egg drop porridge.

2. Pay attention to vitamin supplementation: eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to get enough vitamin C, which can also prevent the occurrence of colds. Such as tomatoes, apples, grapes, dates, strawberries, beets, oranges, watermelons, milk, eggs, etc. Citrus fruits, grapes, and blackberries are particularly beneficial because they also contain bioflavonoids, which work with vitamin C to keep your capillaries healthy. Bioflavonoids also have anti-inflammatory properties.

3. Ensure adequate water: To ensure the supply of water, you can drink more acidic fruit juices such as hawthorn juice, kiwi juice, red date juice, fresh orange juice, watermelon juice, etc. to promote gastric juice secretion and increase appetite.

4. Pay attention to digestible food: choose easily digestible liquid food such as vegetable soup, porridge, egg soup, egg custard, milk, etc.

5. Don’t eat too greasy food: The food should be light and less greasy, which can not only meet the nutritional needs but also increase appetite. You can provide white rice porridge, millet porridge, red bean porridge, with side dishes such as sweet pickles, kohlrabi, pickled mustard or fermented tofu, which should be light and refreshing.

Second, the key points of care after sinusitis surgery:

1. After sinusitis surgery, the medicine strips in the nasal cavity must be removed within 72 hours. During this period, you must drink plenty of water, avoid sneezing or coughing forcefully, and take a rest. You must not lack water, because your nasal cavity is blocked and you have to breathe through your mouth. You must replenish water in time. If necessary, you can use a cotton swab dipped in water to moisten your lips to reduce the feeling of dryness.

2. Remember not to eat irritating and spicy foods within 72 hours after sinusitis surgery, so as to avoid non-irritating nasal sneezing that affects postoperative recovery. When drinking water or swallowing food, be careful not to breathe through your mouth and then breathe after swallowing the food to avoid choking on the food in your nasal cavity.

3. After sinusitis surgery, remember not to smoke or drink. Smoking and drinking will irritate the nasal cavity and cause sneezing, affecting postoperative wound repair.

4. After 72 hours after the operation, pay attention to stopping the bleeding after removing the medicine strip in the nasal cavity. You can rinse the nose with cold water first. Do not rinse into the nasal cavity. Block the nostrils before flushing. After flushing for more than ten minutes, use ice cubes or ice bags to cool the nose to stop the bleeding.

5. After sinusitis surgery, there will be mucus and blood in the nasal cavity. Remember not to blow your nose hard. You can use paper to stick the mucus out little by little from the edge of the nostrils. You can also try to gently inhale from the nasal cavity into the mouth and then spit it out through the mouth.

6. After sinusitis surgery, you should also pay attention to rest more, add clothes according to the weather, eat more vegetables and fruits that improve immunity, such as cucumbers, grapefruits, tomatoes, etc., and pay attention to preventing colds.

After reading the above introduction, now you know what dietary precautions should be taken after sinusitis surgery.