Did you do an at-home iodine scrub before surgery ?

[Guest BikiniBeachy]

My Dr asked we scrub our bellies liberaly with two bottle of iodine at home. Once the night before and once right before you leave for the hospital. Special attention to breasts, belly button and skin folds. Did anyone else so this? It's not bad at all, I was just wondering who else did this themselves.

Better go do my second scrubbing

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[kjhack 3]

My dr recommends using dial soap. Once the night before and then once again on the morning of. I guess they are just trying to kill the skin germies. Good luck, keep us posted. Kelli

[myturn0421 0]

My surgeon gave me some sample bottles of hibicleanse(?). I have to scrub Sat, Sun and Monday before I leave for the hospital.

[momcof3 1]

All I was required to do was take a shower the morning of my surgery - no other special instructions.

[PATCHELTON 0]

I just had to shower with Dial antibacterial soap.

[aubrie 6]

Nothing at home. They did all that when they came to prep me in my room.

[Jachut 487]

I was admitted to hosptial at 7.30 am and the first thing I had to do when I was taken to my room was have a shower with some betadine wash.

[SpecialK 22]

At our Pre-op appointment, they sent us home with 2 packets of pre-surgery scrub that looked like it had iodine or betadine in it and clearly anti-bacterial too. One to use the night before and one to use the morning before I left and headed off to the hospital.

[RestlessMonkey 7]

I'm with MYTURN0421. I had to shower with Hibiclens. They've found that having patients do some type of anti-infective scrub at home (with a product like hibiclens) helps reduce the chance of contacting MRSA. It's good that your surgeon had you do that! :smile2: They will still clean you, too....

but even after a time or 2 using an antibacterial, some remain. So the more you scrubba dub the op site (and adjacent areas) the better your odds of remaining free of those nasty opportunistic infections like MRSA. :wub:

[1000words 0]

I had to use Hibiclens too. It wasn't terrible but I hated it! Basically I had to get wet then turn off the Water then apply the Hibiclens to all my areas and then stand there freezing for fifteen minutes while it dryed. Then I could rinse off. I had to do this 2 times the night before surgery and once the morning of.

[RestlessMonkey 7]

Its a pain but it beats getting a flesh eating bacterial infection!

[longhornmom 0]

I'm with RestlessMonkey...i just washed and will have to do it again in the morning as tomorrow is my surgery day!!!!