I am 9 days post op from a breast augmentation with a benelli lift. Noticed last night that there is a very small area under my steri-strips that is leaking a very small amount of loose yellow fluid with a hint of red in it. Is this normal? Should I be concerned? The incision does not hurt, and all the other incisions feel great other than itching. It's hard for to tell if there is any redness because the steri-strips have been in place since the surgery.
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Thank you so much for your question. Smoking is a very bad idea post op. Nicotine is a vaso-constrictor. Wound healing is all about getting blood supply to the wound. Smoking has been seen to increase; capsular scarring, wounds falling apart, infections, increasing revision rates. It is j...
You are correct in that the band size is a measurement of the circumference of the chest wall. Since this is a bony structure it will not change. With a lot of weight loss you can make this circumference smaller. Hope this is helpful.
Congratulations on having undergone the breast augmentation/lifting procedure. The hypersensitivity of the nipple/areola complexes that you describe is quite common and self limited; these concerns generally improve over the course of several weeks/months. Very rarely, I have seen...
