3 After-Surgery Tips To Aid Your Facelift Recovery

You are doing everything your facelift specialist has told you. But do not mistake your facelift as only a minor procedure. Your body needs the right foods to help you heal after your facelift. And the following guide should help you recover a little faster. 

1. Scarring Is Good

Your skin will scar during the recovery process. Scarring occurs when collagen forms over the skin that needs to recover. This happens so that your skin can form a new dermis without any external disturbances. Think of a scar as a construction helmet keeping the soft skull safe until it is ready to come out. Scars are meant to disappear, but sometimes they form incorrectly. This is a phenomenon that you want to avoid and to do that, you need to consume vitamin E after surgery. Vitamin E is vital in the production of and ultimate scar clearance. 

Consider consuming the following foods:

• Avocados
• Nuts and seeds
• Berries
• Dark or raw chocolate
• Dark leaves

Be sure to ask your facelift specialist about any other suggestions to make sure your skin looks radiant and healthy after you heal. 

2. You Need Healthy Skin Tissue

Your skin is mostly made up of collagen, as your doctor has probably explained. Collagen is a protein that your body produces on its own. You probably know that collagen can keep you young, and it is essential for elasticity and skin repair. So your body will need an extra amount of collagen after surgery. 

You will need to consume vitamin C to make sure that your body produces enough collagen. So make sure you consume some of the following:

• Green, red, orange and yellow bell peppers
• Dark leafy greens
• Kiwis
• Citrus fruits

There is one more tip that will help you heal.

3. Reintroduce Those Blood Thinners

Before your surgery, your doctor told you to stay away from foods that will thin your blood. The reason is that he or she did not want you to bleed too much during your surgery. But, now that it is over, you need your blood to circulate to transport proteins and vitamins to the areas that were affected during the surgery. 

The foods that you need to consider are the following:

• Garlic
• Ginger
• Berries
• Raw honey
• Omega-3 rich foods, like salmon

As you can see, helping your body during your recovery is easy, just make sure you heed your doctor's suggestions before relying on this list alone.