How To Care For A Person After Breast Augmentation
By: Dr. Sean Younai
The support of your family and loved ones can be as important to your healing as following your physician's medical directives. Their understanding of the pain, discomfort, and at times, the roller coaster of emotions, that you might experience can make all the difference in having an optimal outcome.
Here are some tips for your significant others that will be helpful to them in helping you:
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1. You should be available as a full time caregiver for at least 48 hours to help the patients with the tasks that are normally taken for granted, like being able to walk to the bathroom.
2. You, or someone, should care for the patient’s children for a minimum of two days, and be sure that she has assistance in lifting young children for several days after your surgery.
3. Help with pet care. Someone should walk them, feed them and clean up after them for at least several days.
4. Prepare to help the patient address the swelling that she will experience, according to her physician’s instructions. This may include ice packs or gel pack specifically designed for breast surgery patients.
5. Know that she may experience mood swings, and feel like crying off and on – especially in the first couple of weeks. This is a normal aftermath of major surgery.
6. Encourage her to drink lots of water – to address bloating and to keep her hydrated.
7. Remind her to not fight the pain – she should go with the flow, and take her medications as directed. It is not good to try and be a hero!
8. Have her use a U-shaped pillow for sleeping and resting.
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9. Give her lots of compliments. She may be fearful because it will take some time before her new breasts appear as they should. She has a lot of healing to do!
10. Prepare simple and easily digestible foods, such as scrambled eggs or Jello.
11. Remind her to sleep on her back!
12. Have two sleep-in bras at the ready – one tight and one loose to alternate as needed.
13. Be there when she goes to have her bandages removed, to support her through any discomfort she may be feeling.
14. As far as sex is concerned, let her initiate things and play it by ear.
15. Some women feel scared that they might harm their implants if they are touched or manipulated after surgery. Have them ask their doctor about this and get some reassurance.
16. Some women feel depressed or regretful about having undergone breast surgery. Sometimes they don’t know how to handle the attention or questions that breast augmentation will bring about. At the same time, significant others can develop uneasy feeling about the fact that you underwent such surgery. It is good to talk about your feelings and to even seek outside help if you can’t resolve some un-ambiguities.
About the Author
Dr. Sean Younai is a Board Certified Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon with experience in all aspects of breast enhancement surgery, including breast augmentation with saline or silicone breast implants, breast lift or mastopexy, correction of breast asymmetry, breast implant revision surgery, breast implant exchange, and capsulectomy. Dr. Younai practices at the California Center for Plastic Surgery (http://www.beautifulfigure.com ) and recieves patients from Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Pasadena, Glendale, Valencia, Palmdale, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Oxnard.
