Are Breast Implants Safe for Patients with Chronic Lung Infections?

You have the cart before the horse. It is far more likely that one of your lung infections could infect your implants than the reverse. Infection in breast implants is a fairly rare occurence, and fungal infections are even more rare. You may have read something about a few cases many years ago of fungus in saline implants. Although there may still be fungus infected saline implants out there the filling and insertion techniques have changed radically. It is very unlikely now. If... more

I do not think that if you have chronic lung infections that placing a foreign body like bresat implants would be a good idea.

I would be very concerned about placing implants due to the high likelihood or recurrent bacteremia as well as bacterial antibiotic resistance due to your repeated prescriptions.

Dear Lovelife33, Breast implants like all other implants such as pacemakers, defibrillators, catheters, shunts, artificial blood vessels, heart valves, artificial joints etc are dependent on our body's ability to tolerate them and NOT INFECT THEM (not the other way around). Remember - each one of these implants comes out of sterile packaging which contains NO living organisms. Once it is in the body, whatever floats in our blood vessels can reach the implant, attach to it and... more

Hello, In your case, implants might be more likely to become infected than in someone else. I am not so sure that this is a reasonable risk. Maybe discuss this with your infectious disease doctor prior to going further.