How Does a Diet High in Sodium and Processed Foods Affect a Newly Performed Tummy Tuck?

For metabolic reasons after abdominoplasty the body tends to hold on to salt and water. This will be aggravated by high salt diet. Try to limit sodium intake to 2 g or less per day.

A good balanced diet is best for the healing process.  As a matter of good health it is good to avoid excessive amounts of sodium as well as processed foods.  In any event unless your are malnourished your diet will not affect your healing after an abdominoplasty.  

Diet high in Salt ( sodium) and processed food help you retain fluid, gain weight and facilitate adoption of a less than healthy lifestyle. It is a matter of time when the weight gain will show and depending on the amount of weight gain you will soon have excess skin, stretched scars and excess fat deposition in the area around your tummy.

 

High sodium diet soon after tummy tuck will make your body retain more fluid.  You may retain fluid longer after tummy tuck.  However, it will not affect long-term tummy tuck outcome.  Obviously, you do want to keep a healthy diet after tummy tuck so that you do not gain weight and maintain your body healthy.

If it is a sudden  change from a healthier sounding diet there  might be a bit more swelling, but in the average person, particularly if this is not a dietary change, probably no affect.