Side Effects Of Surgery

You may experience certain short-term and long-term side effects of surgery. All of them can be managed through medications, exercises, and a good diet. Please refer to your physician, or our counselors, dietician and physiotherapist.

• Immediate anesthesia induced nausea - temporary
• Pain
• Disfigurement if an organ has been removed, amputated or partly removed – can be corrected through reconstruction surgery or prosthesis
• Impaired limb, which may not function normally
• Impaired movement
• Gas and upset stomach (due to poor eating, an antibiotic, or lack of proper exercise) can be corrected through nutrition counseling, an antacid with the antibiotic
• Discomfort with tubal feeding if patient has had a digestive track cancer
• Nausea if a section of the upper digestive organ is sectioned
• Discomfort with prosthesis or any stoma
• Not being able to swallow if it is an oral or throat cancer
• Inflammation
• Edema or Lymphoedema – can be avoided or treated with exercises, compression sleeves, lympha – press machine and manual / simple lymph drainage methods
• Numbness and heavy sensation with auxiliary clearance – can be managed through exercise
• Fibrosis or hardening of the surgical area Itching or hot sensation area of surgery

The surgical team will strictly handle the clinical, surgical, and post surgical complications.