Use soapy hot water to wash the spot where you have stitches. Dry it with a clean towel. Pour rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab, and wipe down the area. Sit in an area of your home where you can see the suture site clearly. Using the tweezers, pull gently up on each knot. Slip the scissors into the loop, and snip the stitch. Gently tug on the thread until the suture slips through your skin and out. You may feel slight pressure during this, but removing stitches is rarely painful. This could be painful and cause bleeding.
If your wound opens up after you remove a stitch, stop and apply an adhesive bandage. Once all the stitches are removed, clean the wound area thoroughly with an alcohol-soaked cotton ball.
If you have antibiotic ointment on hand, apply it to the area. You may want to apply adhesive strips across the wound to help prevent it from reopening. These can remain on until they fall off naturally or after two weeks. Soaking them in warm water will loosen them for easier removal. The skin around an incision is very weak during healing, but it will regain strength over time. Protect the area by covering it with a bandage for at least five days.
Keep the wound clean and dry. Avoid getting it dirty. It can and will burn more easily in sunlight than the rest of your skin. Some doctors recommend that you apply vitamin E lotion to help speed healing and reduce scarring. Before you use this alternative treatment, consult your doctor. You may be sensitive to it and should avoid it. Or your doctor may have a different recommendation. If you develop fever or notice redness, swelling, pain, red streaks, or draining from the wound before or after you remove the stitches, consult your doctor immediately.
You may have an infection that should be treated. If the wound reopens after you remove your stitches, see your doctor as soon as you can. You may need additional stitches to help the wound close again. When you get a cut or other wound, it can be hard to tell when to treat it at home and when to get stitches.
Suture or Staple Questions. Wound Infection - Suture Site There is a pimple where a stitch comes through the skin.
Call Doctor or Seek Care Now Severe pain in the wound Bleeding that won't stop after 10 minutes of direct pressure Stitch or staple came out early and wound has re-opened Wound looks infected spreading redness, pain and large red area Wound looks infected spreading redness, pain and on face Red streak runs from the wound You feel weak or very sick You think you need to be seen, and the problem is urgent.
Apply more petroleum jelly and replace the bandage as needed. Prop up the sore area on a pillow anytime you sit or lie down during the next 3 days. Try to keep it above the level of your heart. This will help reduce swelling.
Avoid any activity that could cause your cut to reopen. Do not remove the stitches on your own. Your doctor will tell you when to come back to have the stitches removed. Leave Steri-Strips on until they fall off. Be safe with medicines. Read and follow all instructions on the label. If the doctor gave you a prescription medicine for pain, take it as prescribed. If you are not taking a prescription pain medicine, ask your doctor if you can take an over-the-counter medicine.
Call your doctor or your nurse call line now or seek immediate medical care if: You have new pain, or your pain gets worse. The skin near the cut is cold or pale or changes colour. You have tingling, weakness, or numbness near the cut. The cut starts to bleed, and blood soaks through the bandage. Oozing small amounts of blood is normal. You have trouble moving the area near the cut. You have symptoms of infection, such as: Increased pain, swelling, warmth, or redness around the cut.
Red streaks leading from the cut. Pus draining from the cut. A fever. Watch closely for changes in your health, and be sure to contact your doctor or nurse call line if: The cut reopens.
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