If there is a local inflammation in which swelling in some nasal parts is not simultaneously reduced for 2-3 weeks after rhinoplasty, Triamcinolone which belongs to the class of corticosteroids ampoules can be injected into the nose to reduce inflammation.
Injection of this ampoule is a professional job and must be performed by the surgeon. Because wrong injection causes discoloration or thinning of the skin. The injection can be repeated at weekly or two-week intervals on your surgeon’s prescription.
In the rhinoplasty, the nasal skin separates from underlying bone and cartilage and then is lifted up in order that the surgeon has the opportunity to made favorable changes in the nose. This will produce swelling. This swelling lasts for 6 months to 2 years depending on the thickness of the nasal skin. Swelling in most of the patients appears on the entire nasal skin and is gradually reduced simultaneously throughout the nasal skin. But in a few patients, develop a local inflammation just in some part of the nasal skin and this local swelling doesn’t resolve along with other parts of the nasal skin. In this recent case, triamcinolone can be injected to reduce the swelling in that area. So it was mentioned that triamcinolone utilizes for a localized swelling on the nose, not a generally swollen nose. Triamcinolone actually cannot be used to reduce the inflammation throughout the nasal skin. It is only localized swelling which can be relived using a shot. However, a localized swelling requires more than one single shot which can be received at weekly or two-week intervals.
Patients sometimes just a few weeks after rhinoplasty ask for shot to reduce swelling of the nose, arguing that one of his/her relatives or friend got a shot after rhinoplasty and the swelling was totally relieved. Therefore they are also eager to get benefit of an injection. This idea is wrong and the injection is decided by you surgeon not your friend or relatives.
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