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Infection risks and breast lift augmentation

Infection risk is particularly high in breast lift augmentation surgeries. This is so because fatty tissue is much more prone to catching infections than other types of tissue. Fat constitutes a great source of nourishment for bacteria.

Infection after implants is much harder to fight than infection in other parts of the body. Sometimes, the removal of the implant, and of the whole mammary gland is the only available option. Not to mention the pain and the terrible ordeal these patients have to suffer.

During 2005, over four hundred thousand patients had a breast lift augmentation surgery. Over forty-six thousand had to be removed, because of harmful side effects.

If a woman with infected implants breast-feeds her baby -if she is able after the procedure-, she can very well transmit the infection through the milk to the baby. About two percent of breast lift augmentation surgery patients suffer some sort of unspecified infection due to the implants.

Infection can occur at any given time, and not right after the procedure. So, a woman can have had implants for many years and one day, develop an infection. To prevent this, some measures have to be taken. If the patient has to undergo other procedure, like having her teeth fixed, she will have to take antibiotics to prevent developing an infection. So, breast lift augmentation surgery implies that you become a chronic patient for life.

Toxic shock syndrome, a condition mostly fatal, can very well be developed after a breast implant infection. Though rare, it can very well happen.