How long should I wait after a tummy tuck to shower?

I let my patients shower the next day. Realistically, most of them do not feel like getting into the shower with drains and pain pump attached. Most of my patients wait 2-3 days. You should always have someone with you at the first shower and have a plastic chair, because you can get light headed when you unzip your compression garment.

Questions like this should really be answered by your surgeon since very surgeon has different approaches and they know your case best.  However, for our patients, we do not restrict showering.  You can shower the next day if you want.  We like our patients to be clean and we have not found any reason to restrict washing yourself after surgery.  We do caution against taking a bath where your incisions will be submerged under water until all the incisions are completely healed - usually around 3 weeks.

 

Good Luck.