Recovery Hints for Stem Cell Facelifts
If you're about to undergo a stem cell facelift, you'll have to take care of both the harvesting site and the surgery site carefully. The surgery is overall rather easy to recover from, but because the surgery focused on your face, you want to be doubly sure that everything goes well. Not only would a problem affect you cosmetically, but because the surgery is on your head -- i.e., close to your brain -- you want to do everything you can to prevent infection or stress injuries.
Don't Worry About a Little Weeping
You'll be given a series of bandages with instructions about when and where to use each (some will be for the wound, others may be used as padding when you sleep, and so on). You may notice in the first day or so some weeping of a light pink liquid. That does contain a little blood, but it is normal and should stop after the first day or so. If the flow seems to increase, if the liquid starts to look more like pure blood, or if the flow doesn't stop after that first day, contact your surgeon's office immediately.
Take It Easy
After a couple of days, you'll feel a lot more comfortable and have less of a sense of that fragility that accompanies medical procedures. This is not the time to resume all of your daily activities, though, especially exercise. Wait until you have your doctor's approval to start exercising again. If you try exercising, even lightly, too soon, you could pull and tear the incision sites.
Double-Check Bathing Permission
When you can resume bathing normally can vary. Depending on the exact procedure and locations of incision sites, you may be able to shower the next day, or you may have to wait and see the doctor first that day and then find out if you have the green light to shower again. You don't want to saturate the incision sites with water when they haven't begun to really heal yet; doing so could prevent proper scab formation and increase the risk of infection.
Overall, you want to take the days after the surgery at a relatively slow pace. While the incision sites might seem small, they're still incisions. The harvesting site from which the tissue for the cells was taken also needs to overcome the new gap where that tissue used to be. However, when a recovery goes well, the time goes by pretty quickly. Talk to a doctor like those at Glory Wellness Center and Weight Loss Clinic if you have any concerns about the procedure or recovery process.