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.

The most common side effects are

Skin reaction, irritation, dry, scaly or peeling skin. The color of the skin darkens like sunburn.

The following are ways to manage skin irritation

• 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.