Eyelid plastic surgery is generally mainly the operation of double eyelids and canthus opening. Before eyelid plastic surgery, you need to prepare some items required by doctors, and also pay attention to whether your physical condition is suitable for surgery. After eyelid surgery, you need a recovery process, so pay attention to nursing. So, how to prepare before eyelid plastic surgery? What should I pay attention to in eyelid plastic surgery?

1, preparation before eyelid plastic surgery

1. It is very important to see the clinic for the first time. The doctor needs to know all your health conditions and check your eyesight. Be sure to tell the doctor if you have any allergies, whether you usually wear glasses, and your eyesight.

2. The doctor will discuss your surgical goals and expectations with you carefully. Whether the upper and lower eyelids need surgery or just one of them; Whether to remove adipose tissue and skin at the same time; Whether other operations are needed, etc.

3. The doctor will explain the specific operation method, anesthesia method, whether the operation is carried out in outpatient department or hospital, and the related risks and expenses.

The doctor will tell you how to make preoperative preparation, including your diet, some medicines, smoking and washing your face.

2. Pay attention after eyelid plastic surgery

After the operation, the doctor may cover the wound with vaseline gauze and gauze After the anesthesia subsides, you will feel tight eyelids and pain, which can be controlled by painkillers. If the pain is serious, you should see a doctor at once.

The doctor will tell you to look up for a few days or apply cold compress to reduce swelling and congestion. The degree of congestion varies from person to person, and it is the heaviest in the first week after operation and lasts for 2-4 weeks. The doctor will also teach you how to clean your eyes. In the first few weeks, there may be symptoms such as tears, photophobia and temporary vision loss (such as blurred vision and diplopia).

3. The doctor will follow up closely 1-2 weeks after operation, and the stitches will be removed 5-7 days after operation. After stitches are removed, the swelling and ecchymosis around the eyes can gradually disappear, which will make you look better and feel better.

3. Causes of drooping eyelids

1, physiological factors

With the increase of age, the skin tissue above the eyes will become more and more relaxed, and the eyelids will hang down quietly. This is a normal physiological phenomenon, everyone will experience such excessive aging.

2. Congenital factors lead to blepharoptosis

After birth, the eyes don't open, because the oculomotor nerve branch passes through the levator palpebralis muscle or oculomotor nerve nucleus, which leads to the lower edge of the upper eyelid covering the upper edge of the cornea excessively, thus making the eye fissure of the sick eye appear smaller than that of the normal eye. This kind of ptosis has certain heredity.

3. Small stroke

Sometimes, drooping eyelids may be a sign of minor stroke. If you feel numbness and fatigue in your face, hands and feet, or have a tingling sensation from acupuncture, you'd better see a doctor as soon as possible, because this symptom is a warning signal and must be dealt with immediately. The occurrence time of minor stroke is very short, ranging from 30 seconds to 24 hours, and the symptoms of 90% people last less than 2 hours. Patients with hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes are at high risk. Therefore, when the eyelids droop, don't take it lightly.

4. Diabetes

If the elderly suddenly find one eyelid drooping, and often feel pain in the supraorbital region of the affected side, or see double images, they have not improved after injection of drugs, and accompanied by elevated blood sugar, it is likely that they have diabetes.

5, brain stem lesions

If one eyelid droops, the pupil is dilated, and the other upper and lower limbs are numb and weak, it may be a brain stem lesion. Children often have brain stem tumors, and the elderly are more common in brain stem angiopathy.

6, myasthenia gravis

If ptosis occurs slowly, the symptoms of both eyes are tandem, and it is light in the morning and heavy in the evening, and there is obvious fluctuation within one day, then it is very likely that you have myasthenia gravis.

7.intracranial aneurysm

Intracranial aneurysms can cause eyelid drooping, which is also unilateral. Suddenly, its pupils often dilate. If accompanied by severe headache, vomiting, convulsions, coma, etc. It is probably subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by ruptured aneurysm, which should be rescued by neurology department immediately.

8. Horner syndrome

If only one eyelid droops, the same side does not sweat under any circumstances. At this time, the pupil of the eye shrinks, the eyeball retreats and the iris changes color. At this time, it is likely to have Horner syndrome. The cause of this disease is severe facial nerve injury, which may be head and neck injury, brain tumor, spinal cord lesion and so on. , or lung cancer.

9. Systemic diseases

Unilateral blepharoptosis may also be caused by systemic diseases or ganglion diseases, such as tumors and infections, which need timely treatment.