How long should I wear compression stockings after cesarean section?
Women who are to undergo a caesarean section are recommended to purchase and take compression stockings with them to the hospital. Not all women in labor are well aware of why this laundry is required for operative labor and how long after surgery you should continue to wear medical knitwear. We will tell about it in our article.
Purpose
Compression underwear has a wide range of applications. It provides compression - compression. Medical knitwear for the legs is a tight elastic underwear, which exerts external pressure on the blood vessels. As a result of this pressure, the bloodstream is distributed more evenly, the lumen of the vessels decreases, more blood flows to the heart, less - to the lower extremities, which reduces the likelihood of varicose disease, as well as the formation of blood clots.
In medicine, stockings are used to treat various degrees and forms of vascular disorders.
For pregnant women, such products are recommended to relieve excessive stress on the legs, and for pregnant women, to prevent problems with the veins after and during childbirth under conditions of increased stress on the body.
For women who do Cesarean section, such underwear is also necessary, and for several good reasons at once. When abdominal dissection, intra-abdominal pressure is disturbed, which can lead to pathological changes in the vessels, and the postoperative period is associated with a rather long stay of the puerperal in a horizontal and almost stationary state, which can also adversely affect veins and arteries.
Medicines can also affect the integrity of the vascular walls and their tone, which anesthesiologists use to relieve the process of surgical labor. Therefore, wearing compression stockings is also shown in the postpartum period.
The task of such underwear during cesarean section is to reduce the likelihood of developing postoperative thromboembolism. If a blood clot forms and travels through the blood vessels through the blood vessels, blockage may occur. Some forms of thrombosis and thromboembolism (a violation of the thrombus of the vessel lumen) can be fatal.
Compression stockings in front of a caesarean section are worn just to prevent dangerous complications from the blood vessels. Additionally, this laundry normalizes blood pressure due to a more even distribution of blood flow in all blood vessels in the body.
In some hospitals, legs are usually bandaged with elastic bandages. This method is cheaper, but, alas, it cannot ensure the accuracy of compression. The pressure should be applied with a certain force, and when bandaging it is almost impossible to determine the degree of compression. Hospital stockings are considered a more accurate and reliable way to protect the health of women in labor.
For routine surgical delivery, such underwear is recommended for all women. but especially to those who have problems with excess weight and health of blood vessels with relevant signs:
- leg swelling;
- the presence of preeclampsia;
- varicose veins;
- the presence of a vascular grid ("stars", "spider") on the legs;
- excessive weight gain;
- convulsive syndrome (legs);
- bleeding disorders according to tests, the tendency to thrombosis.
Stockings that a woman puts on before the start of the operation will help to avoid negative consequences in the postpartum period.
When to shoot?
After cesarean section, removing stockings immediately is strongly discouraged.
The risk of developing complications in the blood vessels persists for 10-14 days. This is the time recommended to wear hospital underwear after surgery.
In the first few days, stockings are worn around the clock, without taking them off even to sleep. After 7-8 days a woman can begin to take off her stockings for the night. During the first week, the remnants of drugs that surgical pain relieves, as well as their metabolites usually leave the mother of the woman, and the risk of thrombosis becomes lower.
Wear stockings in the morning after a night of rest should be in a horizontal position, without getting out of bed. A week later, a woman may stop wearing stockings. In recent days, it is best to reduce the time of wearing medical medical knitwear for 2-3 hours per day gradually.
The indicated terms are relevant for women in childbirth who do not have any problems with the health of blood vessels.
If before birth there were certain problems, the phlebologist should determine the period of stocking wearing.
It would be good if a woman previously worried about having a second, spare pair of stockings. After the operation, the woman should pay special attention to hygiene in order to prevent infection of the sutures and the ingress of pathogenic bacteria into the genital tract. Therefore, the second pair will have the way - as long as one dries after washing, the second woman can wear.
For details on compression stockings, see the following video.
