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What Causes The Yellow Discharge From The Stitches?
Hi, Had elbow surgery lateral epicondylitis on right on 6/24/11. 2 wks into it stitches started coming out and yellow sticky ooze came from stitch holes. Dr. refixed it, did a culture (3 times since surgery through now), restitched me up for another 2 wks and this wk took out stitches. Bandaged me up will steri-strips which were completely soiled by the time i got home. what is going on? i'm on antibiotics as culture for infection were all negative but dr. wanted to make sure via pills no infection. As i type this i have a towel under elbow cuz the ooze is pouring out. it's yellowish in color. thanks for your time!
yellow discharge from the wound is called the pus. inspite of culture being negative you should continue oral antibiotics as per the doctor. get the CT of bone done to rule out osteomylitis as discharge as per your history is more in quantity. needs attention to rule out the cause for so much soakage.
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What Causes The Yellow Discharge From The Stitches?
yellow discharge from the wound is called the pus. inspite of culture being negative you should continue oral antibiotics as per the doctor. get the CT of bone done to rule out osteomylitis as discharge as per your history is more in quantity. needs attention to rule out the cause for so much soakage.