What can't you eat after having your nose done?

After having a nose job, you must be aware of some precautions. In addition to preventing infection and reducing swelling in time, good diet care is also very important. You must understand some dietary taboos, such as not eating greasy food, not eating some of the foods that Chinese medicine refers to as "irritating foods", not eating some foods that have a blood-activating effect, Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine supplements, etc. Some other seafood foods cannot be eaten at this time.

What can't you eat after having your nose done?

1. Foods containing blood-activating Chinese medicine

Chinese medicines such as angelica, safflower, and Chuanxiong have the effect of accelerating blood circulation. After consumption, they may cause the wound that has already stopped bleeding to bleed again, or even cause local hematoma, prolonging the recovery process. For those who undergo precision surgery with small incisions, such as the internal incision method to remove eye bags and the small incision method to remove buccal fat pads, it may not be possible to completely stop bleeding during the operation because the surgery uses delicate operations with small incisions. In addition, due to the small incision, the amount of spontaneous drainage is small, so problems such as oozing and subcutaneous hematoma are prone to occur. If the blood is activated again after the operation, it will be tantamount to "adding insult to injury."

If you undergo a large-scale surgery with a lot of exudation (such as liposuction), you should also avoid eating "blood-activating" foods after the surgery. Not long ago, the author encountered a case in which a patient developed severe hematoma after drinking angelica chicken soup prepared by her family after skin expander implantation. We should pay enough attention to this issue. In addition, since alcohol also has the effect of activating blood circulation, drinking should be avoided in the short term after plastic surgery.

2. Foods that are prone to allergies, such as seafood and tropical fruits

Crustaceans such as crabs and shrimps in seafood can easily cause allergies because they contain ingredients such as histamine; tropical fruits such as mangoes and pineapples can also easily cause allergies. When an allergy occurs, the skin will become red, a rash will develop, and there will be symptoms such as peeling and itching.

3. Foods that are hard and require hard chewing

For cosmetic surgeries involving the oral cavity and its surroundings, such as intraoral incision mandibular angle plasty, buccal fat pad removal, cleft lip and palate repair, thick lip thinning and thin lip thickening, facial wrinkle removal, etc., patients must eat soft food after the surgery to minimize problems such as surgical incision splitting and wound bleeding caused by chewing. There was once a patient who had undergone mandibular angle plasty through an intraoral incision. He ate a chicken leg because he was greedy, which resulted in the surgical incision splitting and he had to undergo another suture operation.

4. Spicy and overheated food

After eating spicy or overly hot food, people will experience reactions such as hotness and sweating. Since there will inevitably be a certain number of bacteria in sweat, if the sweat glands near the surgical incision secrete a large amount of sweat, it will not only be detrimental to the healing of the wound, but will also easily lead to local bacterial reproduction, increasing the risk of postoperative infection.