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Redness of the belly button may be present for several weeks after tummy tuck. If there is drainage, fever, chills, spreading redness, and warmth then there may be an infection. An exam would be necessary. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
The redness seen in the pictures may just be normal increased blood flow during the healing process of a tummy tuck. If it increases, or if you have increasing pain or foul smelling drainage, I would call your surgeon to be examined and consider antibiotics.
At 3 weeks healing, all incisionsis very active. One of the healing signs is reddness. Redness can also be associated with infections, however, infections would also most likely be accompanied by drainage. I would suggest warm compresses and antibiotics just to be safe.
I recommend following up with your plastic surgeon for an evaluation. It is rare to develop an infection 3 weeks after a tummy tuck.
It is often not easy to diagnose an infection in an incision based on photo alone, so I would suggest a call in to your surgeon. With a few questions and give and take, a decision about whether you should be seen can be made. Thanks , all the best.
I would find another plastic surgeon more familiar with this entity. It may be wiser to break the procedure up into two separate operations. It used to be more common than now to have patients donate a pint or two of their own blood in preparation for surgery, so that it can be used to...
There are various factors that could contribute to that happening. Some being the first weeks of post-op you didn’t take proper care and rest and do the minimal activities , having done exercise before time , basically any rough movement that you could have done before your Doctor r...
This is problematic. I can think of two possibilities off hand, and both require a trip to your surgeon to evaluate. The first is a fluid collection, likely a seroma. The confounding thing about this is that you have lost so much weight. The seroma fluid has mass and will...