Helping stitches to heal

[rubyslippers]

Had surgery on Tuesday - have internal and external dissolvable stitches

think similar to post childbirth type of thing ...

can i put tea tree directly onto a pad? Am bleeding but very lightly and it is probably nearly finished

have lavendar for a bath and arnica

anything else?

TIA

I wouldn't use tea tree or lavender undiluted, and don't have enough experience of arnica.

Years ago, hospital told me to add salt to wound in bath, and have continued to do this, getting lots of congratulations from HCPs to this day due to fast healing.

ah salt - need to get some of that ...

thanks

Don't bath soaking the dissolvable stitches can cause them to breakdown early and/or infection to pass along them. For the first 10 days you should shower and pay dry.
Do not apply anything directly on to stitches apart from clean dry dressing. This can cause irritation.
Arnica was shown tone useful in clinical trials at relatively high dose rates, best given pre surgery.
I am a non-human surgeon, but was also given this advice after breast surgery last year.

non-human surgeon - crikey have been sat here imagining an alien/chimp/robot posting .

But light dawned ....vet ?

Thanks so much

I will take advice from both human and non human surgeons