DD had an excision of a lesion 2wks and 5 days ago. She had it done in Birmingham and we're in Norfolk. She was told to keep it covered and then see the GP after 2 weeks to "trim" the sutures.
We saw the nurse on Tues who said she had never seen stitches like it. There were two sutures of around a cm protruding at each end of the wound and no other visible sutures (reminded me of my cs stitching tbh). None of her colleagues or the GP had seen them before either so they called the hospital in Birmingham who said to just trim them flush with the skin and then leave alone.
The thing is that the wound is clearly healing from the ends in iyswim. However, as you can see from the pic, there are two little holes at either end and you can feel the end of the sutures there. They're sharp and like fishing wire. The skin there scabs but then the sutures break through and open it up again. Should they be dissolving? I can't see how it's going to heal with two little jabby sharp threads sticking through slightly. It's also itchy and sore at those two little dots which is fine if it's healing but is it? Any dissolvable stitches I've had disappeared within 2 weeks.
Will it all dissolve and heal on its own?
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Anybody know what's normal for stitches (with picture)?
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ShowOfHands · 15/12/2017 21:12
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