10 Golden Rules to Accelerate the Recovery Process after Breast Aesthetic Surgery

I wanted to point out some things that should be known and applied for faster recovery and good results after breast surgery. Whether it is breast augmentation or breast reduction surgery;
1. Return to your daily life as soon as possible: Staying in illness mode for a long time delays recovery. Therefore, you should continue your daily life, provided that you follow some of the rules set by your doctor, it is extremely important that you do not remain bedridden. In addition, the healing process will be faster as movement will increase blood circulation. Let the surgical site heal on its own. You only need to protect it from traumas.

2. Apply ice to your chest intermittently: Cold application prevents swelling as it will prevent edema in that area. In fact, edema is the body’s defense mechanism. It is nothing to be afraid of. But if it swells too much, it can be visually disturbing. It is never something permanent. Swelling increases in the first 3 days. It starts to decrease after the third day.

3. Remove the bandages outside the wound area in consultation with your doctor: These bands have the benefit of joining the wound lips and preventing infection by closing the wound. However, if they stay on longer than necessary, they may prevent the area from breathing and impair healing. So follow your doctor’s advice about the tapes to the letter.

4. Listen to your body: You can do the movements your body allows you to do. These are the movements we do for daily tasks. Dressing, undressing, bathing, etc. Pain will guide you here. If you feel pain during the movement, you should restrict that movement. Also, avoid movements that will stretch and strain the wound area too much for 3-4 months to prevent the scar from widening.

5. Use the prescription given to you: In addition to your painkillers, use the antibiotics prescribed for infection control regularly and to the fullest extent. In the meantime, if you are taking medication for a permanent condition, continue to take these as well.

6. After the 4th day, you can gently massage the open areas of your breast with a moisturizing cream: This helps to remove the edema more quickly. It also accelerates the fusion of the tissues and the shaping of the breast.

7. Wear a sports bra for 1 month after surgery: The sports bra tidies the breast and prevents it from shaking during movement. In this way, healing of the wound is not difficult. Sports bras do not damage the surgery area. Underwire or lace bra trims cause pain in the newly operated breast and cause distress in shaping. 8. Do not prefer very hot water in the bath for the first week: Hot water increases edema and delays wound healing.

9. Avoid lifting heavy objects: You should avoid movements that will overstrain your arm and chest muscles, if you insist on doing these, a kind of trauma will occur in your chest area. This is a situation that negatively affects the capsule formed around the silicone in the first 1 month. It may also cause scar enlargement. Examples of these movements are lifting heavy loads, taking heavy items from high shelves.

10. Avoid heavy sports for 1 month, solarium and sauna for 2 months after the surgery: Especially when doing arm sports, the area where the silicone is placed may be traumatized in the first 1 month as the wound is still fresh. Since the incision area is more in breast reduction, stretching in the fresh wound parts causes the scars to expand. For these reasons, heavy sports should not be practiced for the first 1 month. You can take a walk. Hot environments such as sauna, solarium and Turkish bath cause edema in the tissues during the healing process. As a result; Even if your breast aesthetic surgery goes very well, if you do not follow some rules, the results may not be as good as they should be. Because these rules have emerged with years of experience.