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How To Remove a Shallow Fishhook
Aftercare for Shallow Fishhook Removal
Keep wound clean and dry and remove dressing after 48 hours. With foot wounds, elevate extremity and limit ambulation for 1 to 2 days. Return for evaluation for increased pain, redness, swelling, or other indications of infection. Antibiotics are not used routinely, unless patient is immunocompromised. No data support the routine use of antibiotics except possibly in immunocompromised patients. If given, use a first-generation cephalosporin or penicillinase-resistant penicillin, or for patients with contraindications to penicillins and cephalosporins,clindamycin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, ortetracycline. 