Many patients complain that they have a fever after surgery. We want to immediately assure you that any surgical intervention causes an increase in the patient's temperature. During the first days after the surgery was performed, decaying products are absorbed, which will necessarily be present at any level of tissue injury. This is precisely what causes the patient’s temperature increase in the first days after surgery. Also, temperature may rise after appendicitis surgery. This is due to the fact that the amount of fluid in the bloodstream is significantly reduced and there is a wound secret.
In general, a lot depends on the complexity of the operation and the degree of tissue trauma. The level of hyperthermia in the body depends on how badly the associated tissues are damaged. If the temperature after the operation does not drop to normal within a few days, or, conversely, it began to rise only on the fifth or sixth day after the operation, you need to contact a specialist. It is possible that an increase in temperature was triggered by complications during infection. The doctor should as soon as possible identify the cause of the increase in body temperature and why it does not decrease to normal. The reasons for this can be completely different. The first and in medical practice, one of the common causes is damage to the abdominal wall by a developing infectious process.
If there are postoperative stumps, the cause of this temperature after surgery can be inflammatory infiltrates or suppuration processes. Elevated temperature after surgery can be an accompanying factor in diseases such as pyelonephritis and other extragenital diseases.
This temperature after surgery should be a signal for concern and to see a doctor. Patients should understand that any surgical intervention, even if it was successful, is a huge stress for your body. And elevated temperature is usually a concomitant of such stressful situations. Although, as a rule, such a febrile state is short-lived. A week or less after the operation, the temperature drops to normal, and there is no reason for further concern. Often in this condition, patients have increased sweating. If you have a fever after surgery, in no case do you need to conduct treatment yourself, especially with various antibiotics. After all, they can lead to further complications, since the body after the operation is already very weak. Remember that fever after surgery is a natural process, the body's response to extraneous intervention. This reaction of your body can be not only an infectious disease, but also just a surgical intervention. If, nevertheless, an infection or purulent processes has become the cause of the fever, then the doctor will decide what treatment you need. Do not do anything before contacting a specialist. After all, if you take antibiotics that will kill the already weakened microflora of your body, it simply will not have the strength to fight on. There will also be no strength to restore general health. It will be just very difficult, even after a banal appendicitis. As a result of a difficult and long recovery, you can acquire new diseases in the form of sick kidneys or heart problems. Therefore, first of all trust your surgeon. You should not go where you do not understand anything.