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Re: 7 days after surgery and....

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 26 May 2000 10:13:49 -0500 (CDT)


At Fri, 26 May 2000, bm wrote: >
>7 days after surgery to remove a vulvar cyst and my mom still has some
>fluid/puss draining from the site where she got her 2 stitches. There
>is no pain and no fever and she's still soaking every day with epsom
>salts. The drainage has dimished somewhat since the surgery. Is this
>to be expected?
>
>--
>bm
>

Depending upon what kind of vulvar cyst (Bartholin cyst being the most common) this can be very normal. As ling as it's not getting more painful, red, swollen, has a bad odor or she's running an unexplained temperature, it should be fine

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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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