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Excessive Pus coming after surgery
My father hand was swelled up after Glucose drip was taken off. Later we went to surgeon for the check up. He did the small incision to take out the pus. But since last 10 days I am going for Dressing and we see lot of Pus comes out daily from his hand
He is diabetic but now a days his sugar levels is between 80-90.
Doctor has asked for Pus culture test. Can you please tell me what could be the issue? Why his wounds are not recovering .
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Patinet have dibetes
As dibetic wound heals very slow
If his sugars are in control it will still take time
If possible post the photos of wound
Dressing will not be helpful if the single time debridement was done
See why I asked photo is to see the wound
Second what's is the age of patinet why just dressing going on it depends on the age also
Many times we do the debridement under local anaesthesia also
So tell me the age?
See if pus still comes from wound the wound required a debridement
So after debridement we can try wound healing gels
Or dressing which help in healing
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Dr. Mohammed Jameel Ahmed
General Surgeon
28 yrs exp
Nagpur
Continue dressing daily if needed twice
Pus culture sensitivity is necessary
Needs proper antibiotics, better injectable
It's nice that sugar is under control
Wound healing take s time in diabetes
Better to post serial pictures
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Factors for delayed healing
HbA1c more than 7.5 , get it checked.
Decrease immunity due to age or other factors
Get one TLC done
Notorious highly virulence organism - get pus culture.
Compromised blood supply - massage his arm let gently to increase blood circulation.
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