Blue dye still oozing

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Krysm7
Krysm7 Member Posts: 52
edited June 2018 in Surgery - Before, During, and After

Hi everyone!

I'm on day 2 of post op, had a partial mastectomy (about half gone) and I'm still oozing the blue dye they injected to help find the lymph nodes....is this normal

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  • moth
    moth Member Posts: 4,800
    edited June 2018

    Do you have drains? Is it just oozing out the incision? Any signs of infection? Is it mixed with blood or serous fluid?

    Fwiw, some surgeons use a LOT of the blue dye. I'm 6 months past my lumpectomy and still have a big blue splotch on the skin of of my breast. Smurf breast I call it. It fades eventually but it's very persistent.

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  • Krysm7
    Krysm7 Member Posts: 52
    edited June 2018

    Hi Moth.

    No drains.I'm still covered in bandages, so can't see incisions. But blue is still leaking through them.

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  • Dhanno
    Dhanno Member Posts: 104
    edited June 2018

    Hi Krysm Did you take a bath ? Maybe the wetness is causing it .Ideally it should be dry

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  • Krysm7
    Krysm7 Member Posts: 52
    edited June 2018

    nope still no bath/shower. Have to wait 72 hours. I'm beginning to wonder if I should have gotten checked. I can take off bandages tomorrow. So will be able to see incisions, which is a whole other scary thing


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  • moth
    moth Member Posts: 4,800
    edited June 2018

    Honestly I'd call the surgeon's office right now and ask the question to their answering service. Hopefully the surgeon or their locum will give you a call back.

    Nurses doing post op for breast surgery don't like to see bandages that are moist or leaking anything. The dressing should be dry. Bandages which have discharge normally need to be changed and the incision examined because it sounds like it's not staying shut. (<--this from the 3rd year nursing student sitting a few feet from me)

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  • Krysm7
    Krysm7 Member Posts: 52
    edited June 2018

    thank you Moth!!!!

    I'm calling :

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  • FasterPussycat
    FasterPussycat Member Posts: 42
    edited June 2018

    Still leaking blue dye from unhealed incision a month later. The dye itself can be causing tissue death from what I've read.

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  • Dm39
    Dm39 Member Posts: 32
    edited June 2018

    Krsym7, please go to doctor immediately. I had this happen. Then about a week later that area turned to cell necrosis. Completely black. They had to do a debriedment on me weekly and it delayed my reconstruction. The home health care nurses did not instruct me to take care of it immediately. I had an appt. With the doctor and felt I could wait to ask him what was happening.

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