How do you dry the strips nurse puts over scars?

Once I’ve had a shower how do we dry them as I gotta keep mine on till monday now… Are we not meant to wash?! Lol xx

Would also like to know this. I’m one day post op. When can I shower. I had red stuff all over my and black pen marks. Want to get them off a.s.a.p

No strapping on, just waterproof stickers over my incision.

xx

When I still had plasters on I just flannel washed really carefully, didn’t have a proper wash until I’d gone to my post op appoinent 9 days post op! Xxx

sarah you dry your strips with hair dryer on cold air if you no what i mean x

Oh ok, I’ll do that then, I was just worried if they stayed a bit wet would it cause an infection?! Will the hairdryer do it though? Xxx

Hi Sarahjay. Yes hair dry them on a coolish heat. Nurse told me keeping them damp may cause an infection so make sure you dry them for long enough x

see thats my worry! :S i worry so much, im gonna dry it for about half hour lol xx thanks hun x ps we can have normal showers now cant we?

fairy having a look at ur pics (lush boobies) and i see ur steri strips were off by day 11 (i think or day 12)… i had my op on 30th april and am keeping these strips on until monday which the nurse put on today… is this right?? xx

Hi Honey

I would say skip the showering for now…

instead maybe try this;

wash from your belly button down in the bath,

wash under arms with a flannel or with Simple cleansing wipes,

and wash your hair by leaning over the bath.

This is what i have been doing as I don’t want to run ANY risks of my scars getting soapy and opening up.

Just a thought

xXx

hmm thats a good idea but i cant bend over the bath as my new nose

also as u know i had the strips off as told by the nurse and have washed already hope this was ok, but will prob do as u say now and not properly wash them until monday when im to take them off… now how to wash my hair !! :S xxx

Oh crikey! i didn’t realise you couldn’t bend over! Hmm. Get Mum to wash your hair in the kitchen sink by bending backwards?!! – how flexible are you?!! ;-P

xXx

haha might have to get the boyfriend round for this!! xx

Because of the May bank holidays I didn’t have my 1 week post op appointment until I was 10 days post op.

The nurse took the dressings etc off and just applied the steri strips and said I could either take them off that night or leave them on for my first proper shower so I showered on day 10 and took them off on day 11.

I was also told to use a baby shower gel but when it came to washing my hair I just tipped my head back to make sure the shampoo didn’t run down my front.

God the things us girls have to go through hey!

fairy thats what i had the nurse took mine off on my post op appointment which was 9 days post op and put new steri strips on and said to take them off after my next shower….

anyway i woke up today in pain and my bf drove me to see the nurse (a different one) at the mya clinic and she wqas surprised i had my strips off and said i should of kept them on for a week or so!! so has put new strips on for me to leave on until monday……

so what i had originally done u done too… but the nurse said this was wrong..

IM CONFUSED!!! xx

ive started a new post about this as im so confused now and getting annoyed at different advice from different nurses!!

Oh babe sorry I can’t help you then. I just went by what my nurse said at Highgate and had no problems since. x

wierd how we’re getting different advice… :S

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