The benefits of sleeping on your stomach with breast implants

After breast implant surgery, the doctor will instruct the patient a series of post-operative care precautions, in order to ensure that the implant is fixed, the doctor will advise the patient to sleep on his stomach every day, so what are the benefits of sleeping on his stomach with breast implants?

Prevent breast hardening

Sleeping on your stomach after breast implant augmentation can equalize the pressure on the implants, relieve the phenomenon of encapsulation around the implants and effectively prevent the breasts from hardening. Sleeping on your stomach is more beneficial than massaging your breasts to prevent complications of implant encapsulation contracture.

Restore the feel as soon as possible

Some people who have had breast augmentation will experience complications of encapsulation contracture. Sleeping on your stomach can effectively improve this symptom, in addition to relaxing the mammary glands and pectoralis major muscle, it can also effectively slow down the degree of muscle fiber bundle contracture, so that the soft feel of the breast implants can be restored as soon as possible after breast augmentation.

Accelerated swelling reduction

After breast implant augmentation, the patient's breast will have different degrees of swelling, which is due to the residual blood not draining cleanly or damage to the breast skin resulting in post-surgical blood leakage, which is a normal phenomenon, generally within 1 to 3 weeks, the swelling can be reduced on its own, moderate sleeping on your stomach can accelerate the outflow of blood leakage, which can eliminate the hematoma phenomenon more quickly.

How long is the best time to sleep on your stomach after breast implants

Although sleeping on your stomach after breast augmentation is beneficial to post-operative recovery, but the time spent sleeping on your stomach should not be too long, generally do not exceed 90 minutes, because a long time sleeping on your stomach, the pressure felt by the chest cavity for too long is prone to injury, and then in the process of sleeping on your stomach is inevitable to move the body, which is likely to cause displacement of the prosthesis.

How to take care of breast implants after breast augmentation

Take vitamin e orally to lighten the scars

After breast augmentation, you can take vitamin E capsules for 3 months to help fade the scars. Because vitamin E has antioxidant effect, it can effectively reduce the skin surface scars and melanin reaction, and prevent the scars from darkening.

Wearing elastic underwear to fix the implants

After breast augmentation, it is better to wear fixed straps underwear or tie an elastic bandage that can put pressure on the chest, which can better fix the position of the implants and prevent them from moving, and also promote the recovery of breast implants after surgery. Note that you should not wear underwear with steel braces for six months after breast augmentation, but wear elastic underwear for 2 to 3 weeks to fix the position of the implants.