Surgery Monday! Is an Epsom Salt bath OK Sunday?

[greatestnameever 49]

I'm having my surgery on Monday! Hooray! My dad suggested I take an Epsom salt bath tomorrow (Sunday) because it'll relax me and it feels nice. (I'm not doing it to lose more weight or anything, I already lost 15 lbs on the preop diet so I'm all good there.) Do you think this is OK? Sorry for the stupid question, just don't want to eff something up because of a silly bath.

[georgiare 63]

I would do 2 days before at least. You want to make sure your skin is as clean as possible the night before and day of surgery in order to prevent infections, not only in the skin but inside as well because everything that goes in passes the skin. I wasn't allowed to use soap the day of surgery, so if this is the same for you, you won't be able to wash the salts or the microbes from the stagnant Water from your skin. So, my opinion, I would go for a nice pedicure over a salt bath. But, if you do, just make sure you tell the surgeon in case they need to do extra microbe scrubs.

Edited January 25, 2015 by georgiare

[Countrygrrl 450]

I soaked the night before but I was also given smelly soap to wash with before surgery.

[efierke 60]

no problem with an Epsom salts bath. but if your surgeon ordered you to have a shower (or 2) with hibiclens soap, just do it before your hibiclens.