How to prevent intestinal adhesion after colon cancer surgery

How to prevent intestinal adhesion after colon cancer surgery? After colon cancer surgery, doctors generally require patients to get out of bed and move around early, which can prevent intestinal adhesions, promote intestinal peristalsis, and prevent deep vein thrombosis. Let us take a closer look at the benefits of early bed movement for patients with colon cancer.

Colon cancer surgery, like other surgeries, is harmful to the body's vitality. Surgery is an operation that destroys the integrity of tissue (incision) or restores the damaged tissue (suturing). After colon cancer surgery, patients should move more and walk more, and avoid postoperative treatment methods that only require bed rest.

The purpose of postoperative care is to take all necessary measures to relieve the patient's pain, prevent and promptly treat postoperative complications, and enable the patient to recover smoothly. Generally, medium-sized surgery takes about 7 to 14 days.

Proper exercise can also speed up blood circulation, improve immunity, and promote the excretion of toxins from the body as soon as possible. On the contrary, not exercising can easily lead to intestinal adhesions or intestinal obstruction, which is not conducive to recovery.

Some colorectal cancer patients give up exercise when they have a slight abdominal pain, fearing that it will affect wound healing. It is normal for colorectal cancer patients to feel pain when they move, and the pain will gradually disappear as the exercise continues. Therefore, after surgery, you should get out of bed and move around as soon as possible according to your own situation. Generally, patients who are discharged from the hospital three weeks ago can do exercises such as walking and sit-ups. Appropriate exercise can also speed up blood circulation, improve immunity, and promote the excretion of toxins from the body as soon as possible. On the contrary, not exercising can easily lead to symptoms such as intestinal adhesion or intestinal obstruction, which is not conducive to recovery.

In addition, after surgery, patients should get more sun exposure to promote the synthesis of vitamins in the body. Chemotherapy drugs can easily cause intestinal cancer patients to have insufficient vitamin intake. Although some vitamins and trace elements can be taken from the diet, if they do not get sun exposure often, the vitamins taken by the body cannot be synthesized, which can easily cause complications such as bleeding and even damage the body's coagulation system.