Features of rehabilitation after breast enlargement

Women's Breasts at all times was the main Canon of beauty. With age it changes and begins to SAG. The development of medical technologies, in particular, plastic surgery has opened up new opportunities to keep the beautiful breast of any age. We are talking about breast implants. Rehabilitation after mammoplasty is a long process.

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What you need to know about breast implants

Women for centuries have invented many ways to increase the breast — a variety of oils, decoctions of herbs, medicinal baths, corsets with steel plates.

Breast surgery (mammoplasty) is a complicated operation, during which adjusted the shape of a breast, its size, shape areola and nipple.

The biggest plus of this method is maintaining a beautiful breast shape for years to come, minus is a serious stress to the body, surgery can cause complications and worsen the state of health for a month after mammoplasty.

In order to decide on it, each woman should understand:

  1. To trust your life and health can only be the surgeon's name and appropriate license, who works in a clinic with a good reputation. Better to trust the Agency which has done mammoplasty relatives and friends, to assess the results.
  2. All you need to know about possible complications of mammoplasty, their prevention and elimination, to discuss with the doctor all the points before signing the contract.
  3. Much depends on the quality of implants that will be inserted into the mammary glands. Ideally, he should stand in the breast throughout life. The selection of implants is based on individual characteristics.
  4. No less important than the operation itself, is the rehabilitation period after mammoplasty. It is important to strictly adhere to medical appointments and responsible attitude to their health.

To go under the surgeon's knife a woman motivates the desire to feel the confidence to successfully build a love relationship or a career. Often she decides to do it for the sake of the beloved, which does not satisfy the condition of her Breasts. Mammoplasty is also assigned for medical reasons — after the removal of the breast in oncological pathology, because of the innate asymmetry of Breasts if Boobs are too big to pose a threat to the spine, with the underdevelopment of mammary glands and their strengths sagging.

Kinds of plastic surgery

List the main types of plastic surgery on the Breasts:

  1. The breast augmentation. During the operation, inserted to increase the breast implant, the breast of a woman increases up to the negotiated size. Mammary glands can become classic shape.
  2. Breast lift (mastopexy). By removing excess skin adjusts to the shape of the breast. Used in sagging (ptosis).
  3. Breast lift decrease the size, change the shape of the areola and nipple. The most traumatic option mammoplasty, by superimposing a plurality of seams and difficult rehabilitation period.

The operation for breast implants lasts for 1-4 hours, depending on the chosen tactics and the condition of mammary glands. Then begins rehabilitation after breast surgery, which according to specialists lasts 2-6 months.

The stages of rehabilitation after breast augmentation

Rehabilitation after breast lift includes the following steps:

  1. The most important first stage of rehabilitation — the first month during which a woman should observe a mode, to eliminate any stress on the shoulder girdle, not to raise hands above the head, to wear a special compression garment with buttoned band (day and night).
  2. In the following months, gradually removed restrictions — you can do gymnastics, running and swimming. Discomfort should pass. At the end of the second period of rehabilitation, in the absence of complications, the woman can wear a usual bra.

The features of the first phase of rehabilitation

How a woman handles the seams after mammoplasty and performs medical advice, depends on how smoothly will the entire rehabilitation period and the desired outcome of the operation.

Rehabilitation after breast augmentation lasts about 6 months. Immediately after surgery, the patient is under medical supervision, within 24 hours. In case of sudden complications, she will be given emergency medical care. During this period the patient suffers severe pain caused by tissue edema and damage to the muscles. Assigned to painkillers and antibiotics for the prevention of purulent inflammation of the operated areas.

After waking up from anesthesia, it is recommended to take a position half-sitting or reclining, in a few hours you can get up and walk around the house.

On the second day the doctor evaluates the condition of the breast following mammoplasty and in a favourable situation to stay in the hospital makes no sense, he sends the patient to home mode. Henceforth, the outcome of the first phase of the rehabilitation period depends only on itself.

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Home mode

In the first two days the house observed a sparing mode, you should not get tired, need more sleep, so household chores should take family members. On the fifth day after the operation, the woman comes to the clinic for follow-up appointment, if necessary, it is in the seams. Then she has another week gentle home treatment that are:

  • to sleep lying on her stomach
  • make sudden movements with your hands
  • loading the shoulders
  • tilt your body parallel to the floor
  • raise hands above your head
  • it is possible to raise not more than 1 kg

After 7 days, the woman again passes inspection in clinic. 10-14 day she can remove the stitches. If all goes well, you can do light housework but without bending forward and lifting heavy objects. The best way to gradually return to normal life — walks in the fresh air.

In the first week after surgery with the insertion of implants, you may experience increased body temperature. This is the norm — the body gets used to aliena the body inside. In order to bring down the temperature, it is possible to use simple paracetamol, not to create excessive load on the liver.

In the rehabilitation period, it is important to eat right. Food should be light, but nutritious and varied. Speedy recovery will contribute dairy products, vegetables, fruits, lean meat and fish. To excrete the toxins it is recommended to drink herbal teas, plain water without gas with ginger and lemon.

In the first month after surgery it is forbidden to have sex — this can lead to the displacement of the implants. As mentioned above, in the first rehabilitation period is necessary to wear a compression garment day and night.

Compression

What you need to wear a compression garment? After surgery the Breasts are very vulnerable on the suture line. If during this period they will experience the severity of the breast, can not stand and stretch, the Breasts will become soft, in this case, a thin seam turns into a bar that will not disappear without proper treatment.

Another argument is that silicone implants are held until the injured tissues of the breast without fixation can migrate towards the nipple. Visually it'll make all efforts mammoplasty to zero. When the Breasts are increased by 2 and more size, the muscles of the chest and shoulder girdle with compression faster get used to the new exercise.

A compression garment with a certain degree of fixation is determined by a physician. The bra is made from soft yet durable spandex that will provide the necessary support and at the same time to massage the breast, providing lymph drainage and normal blood circulation. The size of the Cup should ensure a fixed position of the breast — it should not move when bending and turning. Straps laid specially wide to take the weight off the shoulder girdle. Belt top and bottom of the bra is recommended to choose so that it is well kept chest in the same position, but did not press the case down.

How much you need to wear a compression garment? All different. In the first month of rehabilitation it is worn around the clock. After the required to wear during sports activities, regardless of the level of physical activity. The time when a compression bra, you can replace the standard determined by the attending physician. He also makes recommendations to the bra kind of model can be worn in the first six months after surgery. Some modern designs of underwear can cause stagnation of lymph and lead to the development of malignant diseases, there are samples that do not provide adequate support. After breast mammoplasty without support can re-stretch and lose the beautiful shape.

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Care for stitches after mammoplasty

Operation for correction of the breast is always accompanied by suturing. In the rehabilitation period, it is important to properly care for them to avoid complications.

In the first few days after mammoplasty can be a woman's breast bandaged, in some cases, the joints shall be drainage to drain excess fluid. At this point, it is not recommended to touch the sutures and to remove bandages. Usually 3-5 days after the surgery, the doctor removes the bandages himself and takes out the drainage.

Until removal of the sutures from the chest after mammoplasty, the patient will wear a compression garment. It is forbidden to wet the joints, lubricate them with any creams, gels or alcohol-based liquids. When taking a shower the stitches are made sterile adhesive strips. The main condition for this period of rehabilitation is to prevent inflammation of the joints.

After removal of the sutures it is necessary to observe hygiene until complete healing. Typically, this occurs within 14-20 days. Sutures heal poorly, if a woman smokes (nicotine prevents the flow of oxygen in tissue) and is taking hormonal contraceptives. Risk for poor wound healing stitches there are in women who are obese and undergoing treatment of cancer. When implants are long-term healing of the joints — a sign of rejection of implants, which threatens to infectious inflammation. To accelerate healing of scars use a vacuum closing wounds.

So, in the rehabilitation period care operating seams is reduced to a regular change of underwear and keeping them clean and dry.

Features of the second stage of rehabilitation

You need to be in the second stage of rehabilitation? After 2 months after surgery, all the hard and heavy was left behind. The woman returns to good health, the swelling subsides, the joints becoming lighter and less noticeable. Until a full rehabilitation period of 6 months, the woman needs to follow some rules:

  • to avoid serious physical exertion which cause fatigue of the muscles
  • do not sunbathe without a bra, it is better, in General, not to expose the breast mammoplasty after exposure to direct sunlight
  • Solarium
  • to avoid visiting saunas and Russian baths, where the temperature reaches over 100 °C.
  • to prevent long-term exposure of the mammary glands with water

Also in this period is breast massage. In some cases, massage is not required, for example, when implants are teardrop shaped. But if massage need, the doctor needs to say so and show how to do it. Massage can be done approximately 15 days after the surgery.

Why the need for a massage:

  • increases blood circulation
  • reduces pain
  • accelerates the healing process
  • prevents swelling

After the end of the second period you can drink alcohol, sleep on my stomach and play sports.

During the second period of rehabilitation not to get pregnant, hormonal changes can lead to undesirable consequences. In addition, mammary tissue and the ducts had not yet come into a proper shape.

Recovery second recovery period will be faster, unless the woman is nervous and worrying over nothing. Need to enjoy life and your new firmer Breasts!

03.09.2018