C sec scar care

[ceri1985]

Hello MNers :) I think I have come to the right place for advice!!
I had DC1, my beautiful Lucy, by emcs 3 weeks ago. After 1 week, the wound was infected and leaking blood and fluid, which has now cleared up after visit to GP & antibiotics (MW said it was a haemotoma and faily common??)

Anyway, the skin around my scar is very dry and flakes off all over my obligatory giant post c-sec underwear (possibly tmi!) and is getting quite painful and cracked. When is it safe to use moisturiser on the wound area? And would it be better to use E45 or sudocrem rather than my usual body butter? If its not safe to use anything on the area, do you have any tips on reducing the dryness?

Thanks.

Hey ceri, congrats on your DD! I had an EMCS 2 months ago and, luckily, no problems with infection, but the MW advised me not to use any kind of cream or lotion on it at all, just keep it clean and dry. It's now got to the point where I think I could use bio-oil on it as it's well healed and completely closed. I would say don't use anything on the area and ask your MW or GP for something (have you had your discharge appt with your MW yet?)

Yep, I have been discharged from the mw last wk, but the area has only become dry in the past 4 or 5 days.

congratulations i would ask the doc, our docs do a phone tihng where if its not urgent a duty doctor will ring you back, so you dont actually have to go down there. worth asking.
mine didnt go dry either, but did leak ALOT! got infected after trying to do too much.

i take it its more on your stomach than on the actual scar?