When is It Safe To Swim After Nose Surgery

How Soon Can You Go Swimming After Nose Aesthetic Surgery? 

An important point to be emphasized here is to be very careful when entering large pools that are disinfected with chlorine and that may contain various bacteria and single-celled organisms that may be found in feces. Please do not swim in the public pool without consulting your doctor, especially after a complicated revision rhinoplasty operation.

As a general rule, patients who undergo nose surgery during the first three weeks after nasal surgery should avoid physical activity.

This rule can be roughly modified from small to large according to different clinics and procedures:

• Swimming after radiofrequency turbinate turbinate reduction operation: In case of going to clean sea, it may swim after 2nd week. It is ideal to have 2 more weeks to dive.
• Swimming after septoplasty operation: Swim after 2 weeks if going to clean seas. It is ideal to have 2 or 3 more weeks to dive.
• Swimming after rhinoplasty operation: If you go to clean seas, you can swim after 3 weeks and it is ideal to wait 6 weeks for diving.

In fact, where "clean sea" with the Aegean Region, the Mediterranean region and is meant all of Turkey's Blue Flag beaches. Turkey had a full list of Blue Flag beaches >> Türkiye' nin Mavi Bayraklı Plajlarının Tam Listesi

Swimming in the pool after nose surgery

 

Chlorination is not recommended in pools where water disinfection is done, swimming in pools for the first 6 weeks after nose operations because of possible toxic effects of chlorine and pathogens such as chlorine-resistant bacteria or fungi increase the risk of infection.

 

Murat Enoz, MD, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgeon - ENT Doctor in Istanbul

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