Will It Be Safe to Go to a Spa Treatment 2 Months After a Tummy Tuck, Breast Reduction?

Yes, you should be fine for the spa 2 months after surgery. At this point in your recovery you can get back to normal activities provided everything is healed up.

If your incisions are adequately healed, you should be able to go into a swimming pool or spa at two months. You may even be able to do this earlier but you need to be evaluated by your plastic surgeon to ensure you are adequately healed because there can be a lot of bacteria in pools and jacuzzis.

Best wishes,

Dr.Bruno

Assuming you have healed uneventfully, all your skin incisions and the muscle repairs have healed adequately and strongly. Scar tissue is not yet mature, softened, and faded maximally--that will take 6-12 months. As long as your scars are pink, they should NOT be exposed to ultraviolet of any type (sun or tanning bed) or else your scars can turn dark and will remain permanently so.

Also, your sensation has not returned completely, so you do NOT have the normal protective response to too-hot temperatures, and could burn and blister breast or abdominal skin that is still numb. I'd consider avoiding the super-hot sauna or steam room for now, just to be on the safe side.

But, your abdominal muscle repair is durable, so as long as you are not kickboxing or doing full-contact tackle football at your spa event, you should be fine, even for starting to work out gradually.

Otherwise, you should check with your surgeon, who has your best interests at heart, not on-line consultants who have not seen or monitored your progress. Enjoy your well-deserved spa day!

Thank you for your post. In general, your incisions need to be perfect, all drains removed and the drain site healed perfect, and the muscle repair needs to be mature with no areas of fluid collection. If the incisions are not perfect, or drain site, then you are at risk of infection in pools, hot tubs, oceans/lakes. You don't have to have perfect incisions to shower, just not submerge in bath or the above. However, I ask my patients to wear their abdominal binder non-stop, except for showers, for at least 4 weeks, so unless you want to hang out at the beach with your binder, then no beach. Best Wishes, Pablo Prichard, MD

If you are healed (as per your Plastic surgeon) there is no reason why you cannot resume all normal activities. Enjoy!

Peter A Aldea, MD