1. Can I breastfeed after breast enhancement surgery?
Affected by the current "milk powder crisis", more and more young mothers choose to breastfeed, but some mothers are worried about their own breastfeeding-they have had breast augmentation surgery, "Breast augmentation will poison the baby", "Artificial breasts will burst during breastfeeding" and "You must remove the prosthesis surgically before giving birth, otherwise you can't breastfeed" and so on.
Are these rumors reasonable? Can artificial "Boba" breastfeed? Plastic surgeons and obstetricians say that breast enhancement and breastfeeding are not in conflict. As long as you master scientific breast care tips, mothers can extend the shelf life of "breast enhancement" while giving their babies the best nutrition.
Case: I am afraid that the E-cup "Goddess" will refuse to breastfeed.
Ms. Xie, who lives in Haizhu District, has just become a mother, but after the baby is born, she always adopts various methods to avoid breastfeeding, which makes her husband very confused. Her mother-in-law also taught her that "a mother should know how to give", which made her speechless. It turns out that Ms. Xie has a little secret: her E cup is not "original". Five years ago, she had breast augmentation surgery. Later, she met her husband and fell in love, and soon entered the marriage hall.
Ms. Xie has kept this secret. Now she heard that "people who have had breast enhancement surgery can't breastfeed, otherwise it will poison their children." She was surprised and scared, worried about the health of her children and her husband's rejection of her as an artificial beauty.
Ms. Rong had a breast augmentation implant two years ago. After the daughter was born, she was afraid to breastfeed because she was worried that she had had a knife and that breastfeeding would seriously deform her breasts. However, the quality problems of milk powder are endless, and Ms. Rong wants her daughter to breastfeed. Just as my sister is breastfeeding and has a lot of milk, let her be her daughter's wet nurse and drink milk tea by herself. Ms. Rong, who thought the problem was solved satisfactorily, did not expect that the milk secreted by her mother could not fully meet the nutritional needs of the newborn because her sister's child was eight months old. After feeding with menstrual milk for more than a month, my daughter was diagnosed with mild malnutrition. At this time, Ms. Rong, who regretted it, had no milk.
Interpretation: Breast enhancement and breastfeeding are not in conflict.
The reporter summed up the opinions widely circulated on the Internet, which are mainly divided into four categories:
First, I am worried that it will affect my child's health. I think the materials used for breast enhancement will penetrate into the breast tissue, either blocking the mammary duct or entering the child through breast milk, which will eventually poison the baby.
Second, it is believed that people who have undergone breast enhancement surgery are more prone to skin relaxation and breast deformation than those who have not undergone plastic surgery, and it is difficult to remedy them in the future.
Thirdly, it is believed that people who have made prostheses must take them out before they are pregnant and breast-feeding, otherwise they will burst their breasts under the action of prostheses when increasing milk.
Fourth, people think that breastfeeding will increase the risk of breast cancer.
"These worries are unnecessary. I have done regular breast enhancement and can breastfeed completely. " Chief physician Yan Ling, director of plastic surgery in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, said that some women who had breast enhancement in this hospital told doctors that it was no problem to breastfeed their children when they came to do other beauty projects in a few years.
The safety of breast enhancement surgery depends on the surgical method and filling materials. Yan Ling pointed out that there are many ways of breast enhancement surgery. At present, the most popular are prosthesis implantation and autologous fat transplantation. A high-safety implantation method commonly used in plastic surgery department of public hospitals. Prosthesis can be cut through armpit or areola. After being implanted in the chest, a fibrous membrane will be formed around it to separate it from the breast tissue. "The material of the prosthesis is silicone, which is safe and will not cause harm to the human body." Yan Ling said that at present, there is no literature report to prove that it will induce false breast cancer, and it will not "infiltrate" the baby into the mammary duct through breast milk, as mothers are worried, and the prosthesis will not burst during pregnancy.
Injection of chemical substances for breast enhancement was once all the rage, but it was quickly stopped because of the Ogilvy incident. The reporter was informed that regular large-scale plastic surgery institutions have banned such injection breast enhancement. A few years ago, the media reported that a lactating mother suspected that her daughter had cerebral palsy, which was related to her breast enhancement with Ogilvy. "In fact, there is no conclusive evidence that Ogilvy can enter the baby with breast milk, leading to cerebral palsy or cancer." Yan Ling said that the main reason why Ogilvy is harmful and banned is that it can trigger human immune response. Some women become inflamed after injection, grow granulomas and form lumps, which lead to breast deformation and unbearable.
"Breast enhancement and breastfeeding do not conflict." Hou, director of obstetrics and gynecology of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, also disagreed with this rumor. She said that too much milk will cause "milk knot" and hurt the breast, but it is not because of the existence of prosthesis that the breast is "squeezed". In addition, after experiencing the process of rapid expansion and then atrophy of breast tissue during pregnancy, whether breastfeeding or not, the breast shape will change, and there is no saying that "breast deformation will be more serious with prosthesis".
Experts remind: don't forget breast care during pregnancy and lactation.
In fact, not paying attention to breast maintenance during pregnancy and lactation has a greater impact on breast deformation. Hou pointed out that as long as breast care is done well, the degree of breast deformation will not be as terrible as people legend. Women's breasts will expand rapidly in the middle and late pregnancy, so pay attention to gently massage the breasts every day. Massage can increase the elasticity of the skin, avoid the appearance of "stretch marks" on the skin when the breast is enlarged, improve the blood circulation of breast tissue, avoid blocking the mammary duct due to the increase of fat, and reduce the occurrence of breast diseases during lactation.
Lactating women should pay attention to avoid excessive increase of milk. The traditional view is that when raising milk, "the breast milk should be saved enough, and then given to the children, and it will be gone when squeezed out." But the modern view holds that the more frequently a baby sucks, the more it secretes. "Regular emptying of milk can keep the mammary duct unobstructed." Hou said that if too much breast milk is not discharged for a long time, it will cause "milk knot" and damage the mammary duct.
When breastfeeding, you should pay attention to avoid letting the baby sleep with the nipple for a long time, or pulling the nipple for a long time during breastfeeding. This is not only bad for the baby's oral development, but also causes breast tissue damage and increases the risk of breast deformation.
2. Repair the breast and operate the knife one year after the end of lactation.
Some mothers with obvious breast ptosis hope to repair the breast shape as soon as possible after breastfeeding. Yan Ling said: "Breast enhancement surgery should be performed at the earliest one year after the end of lactation." This move is to reduce the risk of infection. After the end of lactation, some milk will remain in the mother's mammary duct. In the process of prosthesis implantation, the mammary duct will be squeezed, and the milk may be missed, which will become a hotbed of bacterial culture and cause infection. Plastic surgery is usually done after one year of lactation, and the safety can be guaranteed.
3. Some suggestions
Breastfeeding is relatively safe for breast augmentation with prosthesis implantation. It should be reminded that it is best for women with prosthetic breast augmentation to go to the hospital to check whether the prosthesis has leakage before pregnancy. If there is no leakage, they can breastfeed. Moreover, breast augmentation with prosthesis is generally placed behind breast or pectoralis major, which is not easy to damage breast tissue and mammary duct, so it will not affect lactation and lactation function.
In addition, many women have undergone breast augmentation surgery with synthetic materials, such as Ogilvy. Although this material is a polymer synthetic material, it may be mixed with monomers in the production process, or it may decompose with time after entering the body. These monomers or decomposed components not only pose a threat to the health of breast augmentation recipients, but also may be more harmful if infants ingest them because of their low immunity. Therefore, if this is the case, breastfeeding should be banned.