day 3 post skin graft following Mohs

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I am day 3 following a a fairly large skin graft to the side of my nose that runs into the corner of my eye. I didn't have any form of dressing just a layer of chorenphenicol. I am worried that I have a collection of blood at the top of the wound that is preventing the graft taking. Does anyone have any advice? I was told not to clean the wound at all but just be seen at clinic a week post. There seems to be a collection of blood to the edge of the upper aspect of the wound just beneath the eye that is quite rased and hard. Unfortunately my weeping eye is constantly running onto it too.

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    Hi Mohsatlast welcome to the forum..I don't know enough about your type of surgery to make much by way of advice. However, day 3 is still very early and I imagine that things are beginning to heal under the skin if that makes sense. I wonder if the best thing to do is to make contact with the team that did your op tomorrow and seek some medical advice re this. Hope you get some positive reassurance. 

  • Mohsatlast   Just answered your other question and just seen this one.  Mine was exactly the same I had what my Consultant referred to as a scourer stitched to the graft. I looked like a blue bumble bee.  Mine bled and formed this horrid scab.  This is what concerned me when this scourer and its stitches were removed.  I had this horrid large lump of bloody scab.  I sent a picture of it to Consultants Secretary.  He was worried skin graft had not taken (but it had) and told me to vasline it to get the scab off.  When he saw me a couple of weeks later he was happy with it but did make me another appointment to see him before he was completely happy.  He said this does happen sometimes and it is when it bleeds alor and forms this scab.  I would just keep an eye on it at the moment, dont interfere with it and see how it goes. Yours sounds exactly like mine was as it was from my weeping eye that wasnt letting the wound dry.  Good Luck xx

    • Thank you so much for that. My after care advice was quite minimal and very different to what I have read online. I am tempted to clean it but feel sure I could do more damage than good. As far as I am aware I do not have a scourer. My graft is from my neck and is far more painful than I imagined it would be. xx
  • I would leave it alone until you go back. It sounds just like mine it is the tears form on top of the dried blood. xx