Post-Op Care After Breast Reduction

Post-Op Care After Breast Reduction: Is there 'this food' you should avoid?!

After breast reduction surgery,

post-operative care is just as important as the surgery itself.

Even patients who had breast reduction surgery at Mams Plastic Surgery Clinic often ask about how to care for themselves after breast reduction.

Usually, we explain three methods.

1️⃣ Wear a sports bra to help prevent breast sagging

Especially when exercising, you must wear a sports bra.

2️⃣ Use moisturizer to maintain the elasticity of the breast skin

Apply moisturizer every day so the skin does not become dry.

3️⃣ Manage your weight consistently so fat does not build up again

Combining diet control with exercise can help prevent changes in breast size.

Recently, however, one patient asked an interesting question.

To prevent the breasts from getting larger again,

what foods should I avoid?

I found this question interesting,

so today I would like to talk about foods to avoid after breast reduction surgery.

In fact, regarding this topic,

there is very little scientific literature or supporting evidence to refer to,

so please understand that this is only a subjective inference.

Is there a food that makes breasts bigger?

If we talk about foods you should not eat after breast reduction surgery,

they are ultimately foods that make the breasts larger when eaten.

What we commonly know includes

milk and dairy products.

The factor known to play a decisive role in breast growth

is the female hormone estrogen.

Cow's milk and goat's milk

contain a lot of this estrogen.

That is why there is a folk belief that

breasts grow when we drink the milk we commonly drink,

or when we consume goat's or sheep's milk.

In addition, soybeans that we eat

also contain phytoestrogen,

so there is also a claim that drinking soy milk or eating foods made from soybeans makes the breasts bigger.

However, none of these claims

have been clearly proven in terms of scientific causality.

It is certain that female hormones affect breast growth in girls during puberty,

but whether female hormones also affect breast growth in women after puberty

has not been shown through objective research.

Also, some people say that eating a lot of carrots, apples, bananas, pomegranates, and so on

can make the breasts bigger.

This too has no scientific basis.

Based on more objective evidence, that is, what has been reported in medical papers,

I would like to infer foods that may make the breasts bigger.

Many papers have reported cases in which several autoimmune diseases

and their treatments

caused excessive breast enlargement.

Cases in which the breasts enlarged due to autoimmune diseases and treatments include:

1️⃣ In cases of chronic arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and myasthenia gravis

2️⃣ When rheumatism medications such as penicillamine and bucillamine were taken long term

3️⃣ When medications for autoimmune diseases such as cyclosporine and prednisolone were used

The reason I listed a bunch of medication names that sound headache-inducing just by hearing them

is because one of these drugs is closely related to

something we encounter every day in our diet.

That food is none other than,

the food that is like the soul of Koreans:

garlic.

The component that gives garlic its sharp flavor,

allicin, has a molecular structure similar to N-acetylpenicillamine.

Because of this, there is a study showing that eating garlic three times a day has better effects than penicillamine,

and in a study of menopausal women,

taking garlic extract also reduced markers of estrogen deficiency.

This allows us to infer that garlic has some important effect on estrogen.

Based on this,

after breast reduction,

I would like to argue that if you want to prevent the breasts from getting bigger,

you should eat less garlic.

On the other hand, if your breasts are too small and you want them to grow,

you could say that eating more garlic would help.

Since I was simply trying to find foods to avoid after breast reduction surgery,

please understand that I ended up at this somewhat forced conclusion.

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