Infections after liposuction can be caused by bacteria entering the surgical site. Symptoms may include increased pain, redness, swelling, warmth, or drainage at the incision sites. Fever and general malaise can also indicate infection. Promptly contact your surgeon if you experience these...
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Any wound-related issues should be addressed in your follow-up appointments with your surgeon. Sometimes people react to sutures or have a little infection but this is not the norm and needs to be addressed. To re-assure you without knowing the real story would be presumptuous...
Antibiotics: There are not good studies that confirm that giving patients a preventative antibiotic reduces the incidence of infection with liposuction. Getting an infection after local anesthesia liposuction that is not done in combination with other surgical procedures is very, very rare...