Is it ok to be sick before breast augmentation?

Thank you for your question. If in the unfortunate circumstance that you get sick before your surgery, you may have postpone your surgery until you are better again. If you are feeling sick, I would discuss with your surgeon who may help you decide depending on your individual symptoms.

Your surgeon should be notified if you develop a cold before surgery. Depending on the severity of your cold, your surgery may be rescheduled.

It is not uncommon for patients to call with the worry that they are getting sick right before surgery.  As long as it is simply a sore throat and a mild cough, it is usually fine to proceed with surgery.  If it progresses to a constant cough, productive cough, or fever, then best to postpone the surgery.  The last thing you want to deal with is a respiratory complication after the surgery.  Check with your surgeon, but a mild cold should be fine.  I hope this helps.

Breast augmentation is an elective procedure.  If you are getting ill before surgery, it is not optimal to proceed with a breast augmentation at this time.  Notify your plastic surgeon and consider rescheduling until your health is optimized.

I am sorry to hear about your concerns prior to your day of surgery. Generally speaking, patients undergoing elective surgery should be at their optimal (or close to) level of health prior to proceeding. It is especially important that there be no compromise of pulmonary function or active source of infection present.
Your plastic surgeon will be the only relevant resource when it comes to determining your ability to proceed at this time.
Best wishes.

If you have an elevated temperature on the morning of surgery then it will most likely be postponed for your safety.  Hopefully you will be fully recovered prior to the procedure.  

In my practice I would place you on antibiotics, 2,000 mgs vit C and repeat your WBC blood count. In most cases I would delay your surgery. But you NEED to contact your surgeon ASAP to discuss with him. 

You need to call your plastic surgeon if you are not feeling well prior to surgery.  In some cases, if you have mild cold- like symptoms and the symptoms are improving, you MAY still be able to undergo the procedure.  In other cases, patients with very similar symptoms may have their surgery rescheduled.  This is a decision that can only be made by your surgeon who knows your health history.  Your surgeon also may consult with your primary care physician and/or the anesthesiologist prior to the scheduled surgery.

Inform your surgeon as soon as possible! You may need to be checked for infection which may require treatment.

Your doctor will make the final decision to go ahead with the operation or postpone it until you are well.

 

Hi breastgirl87,

Maybe not - but changing the date of your surgery is a LOT less of an issue than developing an infection.

You should contact your PS and explain exactly what's going on.  Hopefully, you'll be fine by then and able to go ahead with the surgery.

But if there's any question - if you have fever, chills, sweats or respiratory ailments too close to the date of surgery, it's simply prudent to push things back a few weeks, until you're feeling better.  As always, there are few absolutes in terms of timing with something like this, but you need to make sure your PS knows how you're doing.

I hope that this helps, and good luck,

Dr. E