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After Laser of Warts

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After laser of warts, you should expect:

  1. Mild cramping, like a menstrual period
  2. Light bleeding or spotting for up to a week
  3. Feeling tired
  4. Sometimes feeling sick (nausea) from the medicines you had while you were asleep
  5. Pain (like a burn) in the area that was lasered
  6. Pain when urinating when the urine hits the area that was lasered

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Plan to:

  1. Rest on the day of surgery, and over the next 2 days, slowly increase your activities until you feel normal
  2. Take 600 mg. of ibuprofen (Advil, Nuprin) every 4 - 6 hours around the clock (while awake) for 3-5 days to treat cramping
  3. Take stronger pain medicine (Tylenol with codeine) as needed in addition to ibuprofen for pain in the area that was lasered
  4. Use a pad, not a tampon for any bleeding
  5. Go back to work or school in 1 - 2 weeks
  6. Begin taking or keep taking any medicine that was prescribed before the surgery or after the surgery (including hormones or birth control pills)
  7. Call the clinic (636-4681) to make a follow-up appointment. You should tell the scheduler that this is a "post-op" visit. Usually this visit will be within 1-3 weeks.

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Specific Instructions for Caring for the Area That Was Lasered:

  1. Keep area clean and dry:
    a. Bathing in clean tub at least once a day
    b. May bathe or sit in lukewarm tub as frequently as desired
    c. Dry with hair dryer set on warm
  2. Use soothing compresses to the area as needed:
    a. Brew tea (using tea bags and boiling water)
    b. Allow tea to cool-room temperature or chilled
    c. Use clean washcloth
    d. Place compress over the area that was lasered
  3. Use numbing medicine (local anesthetic-2% lidocaine / Xylocaine)-clear jelly:
    a. Sparingly
    b. As often as once every 2 hours
    c. Five minutes prior to peeing (urinating)
  4. Drink lots of fluids to keep urine dilute
  5. If you can't pee / urinate within 4 hours of surgery:
    a. Sit in tub of warm water to void
    b. Come to the Emergency Room (E.R.) .if you can't pee for 6 hours after discharge from hospital
  6. Use cream (Nystatin)-yellow / white cream
    a. Lots of cream applied 4 x/day
    b. Spread the lips of the vagina (labia) apart before applying from front to back

DO NOT plan to eat a full meal until at least 6 hours after surgery, drink liquids such as tea, apple juice or water. If you feel alright, you can eat a little more. Don't eat spicy foods (for example, pizza or Skyline chili) for the first meal. DO NOT put anything in your vagina (NO tampons, NO douching, NO SEX) until after you have had your checkup.

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Call 636-4681 if you have:

  1. Bleeding heavier than a menstrual period
  2. Severe vomiting
  3. Fever more than 101 degrees
  4. Severe redness, pus or drainage from the area that was lasered
  5. Can't pee / urinate by 6 hours after procedure
  6. Pain unrelieved by Advil / Ibuprofen plus Tylenol with Codeine

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Contact us

For additional information on this or any Health Topic, please call the Family Resource Center, 513-636-7606, or your pediatrician.

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Written 10/06