Recovery after laparoscopy takes a certain amount of time, although it is not as long as abdominal surgery. Its duration depends on the type of operation (diagnosis or treatment), the type of operation (organs examined), and the occurrence of complications, and it may take 2-4 weeks. During this period, a series of different events will not stop in a person's life, including those related to the reasons for drinking. Therefore, patients usually find out when they can drink after laparoscopy.
Attitudes towards alcohol during the recovery period after laparoscopy
| Types of laparoscopic surgery | Important adaptive characteristics related to alcohol |
| Gynecological procedures | During the adjustment period after endoscopic surgery, a woman had to deal with nausea and bloating. With the onset of pain, the doctor prescribes non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. If an infectious inflammatory foci is suspected, antibiotics are used. After laparoscopy for ovarian cysts, a woman needs to drink hormonal drugs to correct the hormonal background. Therefore, alcoholic beverages should not be taken earlier than one and a half months later, because drugs are absolutely incompatible with even small doses of alcohol. |
| Removal of appendicitis | It is forbidden to use alcoholic beverages after laparoscopic appendectomy, because they can seriously damage the liver and threaten the development of cirrhosis. In addition, ethanol causes inflammation of the mucous membranes of all digestive organs. Due to the danger of bloating and flatulence, beer is even banned because it is a fermented product, although it is natural. The result of increased gas formation may be scattered seams. How long you can taste before seeing the wine depends on the attending doctor |
| Cholecystectomy | After laparoscopic cholecystectomy, patients must not only significantly adjust their diet, but also their entire lifestyle. Should help the body adapt to special functional conditions, taking certain drugs may last a lifetime. Therefore, after intervention, not only drinking alcohol is prohibited, but also absolutely contraindicated, because the organs responsible for alcohol breakdown have been eliminated. In the case of not meeting all the doctor’s requirements, is there a question of a favorable outcome |
For successful recovery after any type of laparoscopy, it is important to follow simple rules to make the body fully recover. Even if you give up alcohol completely, your life will not end, but will gain a new meaning, and the colors of reality will become brighter.
Time to reduce the risk of drinking
Drinking alcohol is not suitable after surgery. After thinking:
- Abdominal surgery, you can take the first lowest dose of ethanol one month later;
- After tooth extraction-2-3 days;
- Appendectomy (for purulent appendicitis)-2-3 weeks later;
- Gynecological surgery (for uterine fibroids or ectopic pregnancy)-4 weeks later.
- Plastic surgery-3 weeks later.
The time factor is affected by the patient's age and physical condition. If the average restraint time of appendectomy is 2-3 weeks, then it is 10-14 days for young people 25-30 years old, and 1. 5-2 months for young people over 35 years old.
If it is impossible not to drink alcohol, it is best to check with your doctor about the “safe” time for prohibition. First, this applies to
Extensive operations on- The spine is used to remove herniated discs and coccyx injuries;
- Rectal (for hemorrhoids);
- Thyroid;
- The joints of the limbs;
- Prostate (for cancer or adenoma);
- Testicles (varices resection);
- knee area (on the knee joint);
- Leg veins (for varicose veins).
Alcohol has different effects
Unfortunately, not everyone listens to the advice of tattoo artists. Therefore, various consequences often occur. There is no harmless alcohol. One might think-what if I drink a bottle of beer or a glass of vodka? Let's see how certain types of alcoholic beverages affect the body after tattooing.
Lovers of brandy and whiskey should refuse these drinks within a few weeks after surgery. The fact is that they will have a direct effect on blood vessels, causing them to dilate. As a result, the image will become much darker, about half. Damaged skin takes longer to heal, and the wound may bleed.
Drinking vodka after tattooing can cause distortion and blurring of graphics. The paint was washed off very strongly. As for beer that seems harmless, you must also avoid drinking it. Foaming beverages will slightly increase blood pressure, which will affect the lymph, more precisely affect its production.
Important! After drinking alcoholic beverages, a few days after tattooing, a rough crust will appear on the skin. As a result, scars, scars or bumps may appear, which will not disappear even if the skin is completely healed.
Alcohol and narcotics
Anesthesia-Under the influence of anesthetics, the sensitivity of the tissue decreases in a short time. Such drugs prevent the transmission of nerve impulses, so the signal does not reach the brain, which means that the body does not respond to stimuli in the form of pain.
Local anesthesia continues for another 2. 5 hours after the operation. However, when drinking alcohol, the anesthetic effect of the drug disappeared immediately, resulting in severe pain episodes. Even the use of anesthetics cannot relieve this pain.
When it is necessary to protect the body from shock and pain, the use of general anesthesia in abdominal surgery is much more complicated.
After recovering from anesthesia, the following complications may occur:
- headache;
- Disgusting;
- Muscle weakness or tension;
- Sore throat;
- Confusion;
- Blood pressure drops;
- Hallucinogenic delusion.
Why can't I drink alcohol after anesthesia?
This combination may cause serious conditions such as anaphylactic shock and neurological disease. The withdrawal period of anesthetics depends on the type, dosage, and health of the patient. Usually, the main part leaves the body within one day after the operation, and the remaining part leaves the body within 2-3 days.
What are the consequences
Not all antibiotics are the same: some are mild, some are more corrosive. The following are the medication groups that must be taken strictly in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, but do not include any health tests:
- Chloramphenicol;
- Tetracycline;
- Nitroimidazole;
- Macrolide;
- Cephalosporin;
- Lincosamide;
- Aminoglycosides.
If the restrictions are ignored, serious health problems are inevitable. The person is facing:
- Heart attack;
- Stroke;
- Allergic reaction;
- Tissue suppuration can become gangrene.
The drug Biseptol works similarly to disulfiram (used to code alcoholism). If it is mixed with alcohol, the patient's body temperature will rise, and heart will appear, accompanied by severe vomiting and headache. Bleeding may occur due to cerebral vasospasm. Result-heart attack, coma or death.
Rules for drinking after removing the gallbladder
If the person after cholecystectomy is not uncomfortable at first, this does not mean that alcohol can be consumed. Especially in this case, the systemic intake of toxic beverages is dangerous. In many patients with gallbladder removal, the body will spontaneously react to alcohol with vomiting or severe pain. This is due to the fact that the digestive organs after surgery begin to work under extreme conditions.
After removing the gallbladder, completely forgetting any form and amount of alcohol is the most correct method. And many patients have managed to completely eliminate alcohol in their lives. However, not everyone can completely abstain from alcohol-after all, most traditions of Slavic culture are related to the mandatory use of strong alcohol.
Therefore, it is important to know what are the basic rules for drinking after the gallbladder is removed, what and how much you can drink in similar situations. The compromise between the title of "White Crow" and the harm to one's own health can be a restriction of the following form:
Generally, the removal of the gallbladder is associated with the development of chronic inflammatory processes in the bile duct or liver. For this disease, the absence of a gallbladder is not a reason to relax and begin to absorb everything. Except for alcohol, patients who are at least 2-3 years old are prohibited from eating fatty, fried, smoked and spicy foods. The period after cholecystectomy is considered restorative and has special restrictions on the patient.
Gallbladder removal is very frequent, after such an operation, it is likely to live longer. However, such intervention forces people to monitor their health more carefully, adhere to diet and eliminate alcohol from their lives.
Only in the case of a regular lifestyle and refusal to addiction can it be possible to bring long-term good health relief to patients. Strictly restricting or eliminating the need for alcohol does not prevent many people from living a happy life, but hope to find a real reason for pleasure.
How much alcohol should not drink
Ethanol will dilate blood vessels and increase blood circulation, which is very dangerous when there are open wounds in the mouth. Drinking alcohol can cause severe bleeding and it is difficult to stop the bleeding.
After removal, a blood clot will form in the wound to protect it from infection. As the bleeding increases, it can be washed away, and then inflammation is inevitable. Outcome-pain with convulsions, swelling, suppuration, fever. You will have to go to the dentistry again, clean the pus, open the gums, and drink antibiotics.
In addition, ethanol can trigger an allergic reaction to analgesics. No one can predict it because each organism responds to painkillers in its own way. The most common manifestations: skin rash, itching, puffiness, difficulty breathing. Even anaphylactic shock is possible.
The period for banning the use of hard alcohol is set separately. Before starting to drink alcohol, the patient must make sure that the wound has healed and will no longer bleed in case of accidental mechanical damage. The gums are healthy, without swelling, and will not sore when compressed. There is no putrid smell in the mouth.
Also, you need to wait until the anesthetic is cleared from the blood. This process takes one to several days: the time depends on the injection dose, the individual's metabolic rate and the type of anesthetic. Usually, by the third night, traces of the drug in the blood no longer remain.
Tooth extraction is a relatively harmless operation, but some restrictions must be observed even after the extraction, especially if the doctor uses anesthetics. Be careful when drinking alcohol-even a small portion can have serious consequences.
The effect of alcohol on blood circulation
Surgery sometimes damages not only the soft tissues but also the blood vessels that feed certain parts of the body. If the results are satisfactory, they will recover, so no organ will suffer from insufficient oxygen and excessive carbon dioxide.
The surgeon pointed out that this result is only possible if all recommendations regarding the recovery period are strictly followed. In particular, if a person does not obey a doctor and drinks alcohol, circulatory system problems may occur. Alcohol can negatively affect the state of the vascular bed.
It is believed that small doses of alcohol have a beneficial effect on blood circulation, but this only applies to people who are perfectly healthy. After the operation, the situation is different.
Even a small amount of strong drinks can be harmful. The doctor explains this by the fact that under the influence of ethanol, smooth muscle tissue undergoes a sharp contraction. In other words, the walls of the arteries and veins become a tone-enhanced state. Their lumens narrowed and the speed of blood passing through them decreased.
As a result, the patient's blood pressure drops and the oxygen supply to tissues and organs deteriorates. This means that healing after surgery will slow down and the recovery period will be extended indefinitely.
The dangers of preoperative drinking
Not only after surgery, but also during preparation, the presence of ethanol in the body is unacceptable. Even modern endoscopic surgical methods that do not require standard cavity incisions will be used for surgery. Drinking alcoholic beverages before surgery can cause damage to the cardiovascular system, threatening heart failure and possibly death.
In some cases, alcohol in the blood can cause problems with the anesthesia. The duration of anesthesia is short-term without reducing the pain. Sometimes, patients will ask if they can drink beer or other carbonated beverages before the intraperitoneal intervention. Such beverages can stimulate the gastric mucosa and absorb carbon dioxide before surgery, and cause gastrointestinal bleeding with ethanol and anesthetics.
It is difficult to recover from general anesthesia even with a small amount of alcohol before the operation of the anesthetic. Due to severe hangover symptoms, doctors will have to make the surgical patient conscious, fight delusion, and exit the anaphylactic shock state. Therefore, the doctor warns that after laparoscopy, you can only drink clean water without carbon dioxide or even alcohol. Especially after endometrial resection and ovarian cyst removal, antibiotics can be prescribed to women to prevent inflammation.
Postoperative complications
According to medical statistics, patients who drink alcohol before or after surgery are at higher risk of complications. Ethanol and anesthesia are completely incompatible. Anesthesia is the temporary loss of tissue sensitivity under the action of drug anesthetics. Their main task is to prevent the transmission of nerve impulses. As a result, the signal cannot reach the brain, so the patient does not feel pain.
The anesthesia effect after the operation will last for 2-3 hours. If you drink a little alcohol after the operation, the effect of the painkillers will disappear immediately.If you drink alcohol before surgery, a similar reaction can happen.
In this case, additional anesthesia will not achieve the desired effect.
Any surgical operation on the body is stressful. Drinking alcohol after surgery can cause serious problems. Potential complications include:
- headache;
- Confusion;
- Disgusting;
- Lower blood pressure.
Ethanol has a negative effect on blood clotting. It is too thick. Red blood cells in the blood stick together to form clots, blocking blood vessels and small capillaries. Drinking alcohol after surgery can cause stroke, heart attack or bleeding.
Many alcoholics diagnosed in the hospital bed as disappointingly in need of surgical intervention, ask themselves a question: "When can I drink after the operation? If anyone does not know when. During the illness, including before and after the operation, especiallySo. Today, we will explore this topic in more detail, and find out the physiological mechanism of the effect of ethanol on the human body, and this effect of alcohol on the human body has recently undergone surgery.
After the operation
After the operation, the patient's body needs long-term high-quality recovery. For this reason, large amounts of medicine are usually dispensed to facilitate the process. Drunkenness will seriously interfere with the recovery process, have a direct negative impact on the body and immune system, and interact with drugs.
Because alcohol can thicken the blood, it is dangerous to ingest alcohol even after surgery-it affects the veins and has serious consequences for blood clots that have not recovered after the surgeon's intervention. Depending on the concentration of alcohol, the smallest capillaries and larger blood vessels may overlap, which significantly slows down blood circulation and recovery.
The liver and kidneys of alcoholics encounter severe difficulties at work, often complicated by liver cirrhosis and other chronic diseases. In the postoperative phase, the human body has been subjected to a large load to eliminate the decay products of powerful drugs. Alcohol greatly increases other risks.
After surgery, the combination of alcohol and drugs can delay the elimination of toxins from the body. The negative symptoms of this combination are as follows:
- Arrhythmia;
- Difficulty breathing;
- Increased sweating;
- dizziness;
- Lower blood pressure;
- Blood rushed to the head.
Generally, in order to prevent postoperative complications, it is necessary to prescribe strong antibiotics, and antibiotics are absolutely incompatible with any alcohol products. Alcohol under general anesthesia has a depressive effect on the central nervous system, often leading to delusional states, hallucinations and other harmful manifestations.
Alcoholic beverages during abstinence
Like other types of surgical procedures, drinking alcohol after laparoscopy is particularly dangerous. This is especially true in the field of gynecology. Due to postoperative pain and inflammation after endoscopic surgery, patients are usually prescribed certain medications. Taking painkillers and antibacterial agents is incompatible with alcohol, so it is strictly forbidden to use them.
Reasons for banning alcoholic beverages after laparoscopy:
- In addition to restoring immunity, the body must also consume a lot of energy to remove alcoholic toxins.
- When using laparoscopic methods to treat ovarian cysts, if a woman even drinks a little beer before the operation, her inflammatory complications will be threatened;
- Taking alcoholic beverages with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can cause liver cell death;
- Drinking alcohol after anesthesia will slow down the regeneration process and lead to aggravation of underlying diseases and chronic diseases.
- Causes vasodilation, drinking alcohol after anesthesia threatens internal bleeding, bleeding, and may cause heart disease or stroke;
- Alcohol strongly thickens the blood, causing obstruction of small capillaries and accompanied by red blood cells, leading to blood clots;
- Using alcoholic beverages can depress the nervous system and may cause confusion, hallucinations, and hallucinations.
Antibiotic rules
The most important rule of thumb for taking antibiotics is to use antibiotics only when they are not available. The indication for use is the symptoms of acute bacterial infection, which the body cannot cope with on its own. In order to obtain the desired therapeutic effect, taking antibiotics cannot be indifferent.
The following instructions must be followed:
- If you do not have a medical background, you cannot prescribe antibiotics yourself. Only a doctor can determine the cause of the disease-virus or bacteria. For viral infections, antibiotics will not help; on the contrary, they will aggravate the course of the disease.
- If you feel good, please do not stop the prescribed course of treatment.This disease may recur;
- Do not change the dose of antibiotics during treatment. A decrease in the dose may threaten the bacteria's resistance to the drug, while an increase may cause side effects or overdose.
- Do not drink antibiotics with tea, juice, especially milk, otherwise taking the drug will not help. Milk, dairy products and fermented milk products are not compatible with antibiotics and they will reduce the effect of the drug. You can only drink about 0. 5-1 cups of water with water;
- Do not take antibiotics at any convenient time.It is important to follow the instructions on the medication and use the medication in the stated manner, ie before, during or after meals. In addition, it is important to observe the frequency of administration (1 time after 24 hours, 2 times after 12 hours, 3 times after 8 hours, and so on) to produce the required antibiotic concentration in the body.
- Do not combine antibiotics with physical activity;
- Do not drink alcohol during the entire process of taking antibiotics.
Before prescribing antibiotics, you must inform your doctor of the following:
- Drugs currently taking.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding;
- Kidney or liver disease;
- Diabetes.
and if observed before:
- Side effects occur;
- The development of allergic reactions;
- Recently used antibacterial agents.