granulated tissue?

[Writermom]

Hello, everyone,
I had a bad tear giving birth to my daughter (now three months old). I had stitches, some of the stitches reopened, and was told it would still heal all right, just slower. Well, now I have a patch of granulated tissue (right where those stitches opened). I'm told it will not go away on its own, and I'll need to have it swabbed with silver nitrate, which essentially burns it off.

Did anyone else have this happen? Can you shed some light on exactly what this is? How bad will this hurt? I'm feeling pretty unhappy about this.

Thanks!

[Nankay]

Hi,, I had this happen with my dd about 7 yrs ago. (I think she was MAYBE a month old at the time) Another word for it is "proud flesh". anyway..I had to have the silver nitrate stuff done and it was a b#*ch!!!!! man, I'm sorry to tell you. I healed quite quickly though after it was done.

[cottonwood]

Why can't they deaden the area first?

[Nankay]

Good question!