What should be considered after aesthetic nose surgery?

  • You may have nausea if you will stand up in the early period after the surgery. This condition will pass after several hours. It is recommended to take liquid instead of heavy foods in the early period.
  • There will be a bandage consisting of splint or plaster on your nose after the surgery. It is advisable not to touch these materials and protect them in a dry condition. They will be removed by your surgeon after 5 – 7 days.
  • Bleeding from your nose as a weak leak is anticipated. This discharge is observed in light red color. If you observe the discharge in dark red and continuously, call and tell your doctor about this.
  • Your surgery can be performed with or without tampon depending on some factors. If tampon is placed, it will be removed within some days by your surgeon. There can be nasal congestion even if tampon is not placed into your nose or in a short time after the tampon is removed. This is related to postoperative swellings and shells in the nose. It will pass being gradually decreased within some days.
  • Especially, it is not recommended to try to clean up the nose using strong breathing and giving breath in the early period. This case can cause bleedings.
  • There can be swellings and color changes around eye in this or that degree depending on a number of factors. The degree of swelling and color changes will increase on the 2nd and 3rd days after the surgery. The above-mentioned negative appearance around the eyes will pass within a week.
  • It is appropriate to place at least 2 pillows under your head while sleeping and resting and make effort to keep your head upright within a day. Due to this, normal blood circulation being preserved, swellings will blow away quickly.
  • Make effort your nose not to touch pillow while sleeping. You can use special pillows or travel pillows for this. If you cannot provide these, you can prevent turning to the right and left during sleep by placing pillows to your both sides.
  • Use only the drugs and medicines recommended by your doctor.
  • It is advisable to avoid chewing for long time, fierce laughing and deep mimic actions within two weeks.
  • It is advisable to wear the clothes which are opened and closed from the front or back part instead of the clothes worn from the head in the early period.
  • Sneezing doesnt damage your nose. However, rarely, it can cause bleeding. You can press your palate with your tongue tilting your head slightly forward when there is a feeling of sneezing in order to prevent this. The feeling of sneezing will likely pass due to this. Despite of this, if it doesnt pass, you can sneeze in a manner that the air is removed from your mouth.
  • You can brush your teeth with a soft brush.
  • It is not recommended to exert yourself, lift heavy things (especially, small children) and do exercise within 2 weeks after the surgery.
  • You can take a shower with warm water instead of hot water. It is not desirable for some types of splint or plaster bandage on the nose to get wet. You can ask this point from your doctor.
  • It is not advisable in the early weeks to expose to suns rays, sauna and solarium. Heat can cause bleedings and swellings.
  • You can enter the sea after the 2nd week. You can swim 1 month after the surgery.
  • You can get advice from your doctor related to the massage that you can apply on your nose after the surgery.
  • Your sense of smell will not be the same as before several weeks after the surgery. This case will gradually improve.
  • You will see positive changes in the appearance of your nose day by day. Despite this, your nose will get is final – desirable form after months.