Women must know! Please be careful when shrinking that thing

To undergo areola reduction surgery, you not only need to understand the precautions before and after the operation, but also the preoperative preparation and postoperative care. Do you understand all this? Let’s take a look together.

Areola Reduction Surgery Features

1. Remove excess skin from enlarged nipples and areolas to restore the normal shape of nipples and areolas.

2. Local anesthesia, the operation is painless.

3. Circumferential incision around the areola, concealed and leaving no trace.

4. Does not damage the nipple and breast tissue, and does not affect breastfeeding.

Areola reduction surgery preparation

1. Women need to choose their own surgery time. Usually, women need to avoid surgery during menstruation and pregnancy.

2. Women need to undergo a routine physical examination to determine whether they have a scar-prone constitution, whether they have blood coagulation disorder, etc.

3. If a woman has a habit of smoking and drinking, she needs to stop smoking and drinking one month before the operation to ensure the safety of the operation.

4. Women need to tell the doctor their requirements and expectations so that the doctor can understand the patient's condition and develop an appropriate surgical plan.

5. Women need to make sure that they do not have any tumors or cancer in their breasts.

Areola reduction postoperative care

The main things to note after areola reduction surgery are as follows:

1. The wound area should not be soaked in water within one week after the operation to prevent infection. The surgical area should be kept clean after the operation.

2. You cannot eat spicy or irritating foods after surgery, such as seafood and chili peppers, as these foods are very detrimental to the recovery of postoperative wounds.

3. Any sexual intercourse is prohibited within two weeks after the operation. If you have the habit of smoking, you should also refrain from smoking for a period of time after the operation.

4. After the operation, you can use ice packs to cool the wound to speed up postoperative recovery, which generally has very good results.

5. After the operation, you need to take the medicine strictly according to the doctor's instructions and go to the hospital for follow-up visits on time.

Contraindications of Areola Reduction

1. People with mental disorders or psychological barriers, lack of self-awareness of their own conditions, and blindly pursue unrealistic double eyelid shapes; those with severe scar constitutions, or abnormal coagulation mechanisms should inform the doctor in advance.

2. Patients with bleeding tendencies and hypertension, active and progressive diseases of important organs such as the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys, uncontrolled diabetes, and infectious diseases.

3. Patients with congenital amblyopia, acute or chronic infections in the inner or outer eye or around the eye that have not been controlled or healed on their own; those who have been allergic to local anesthetics or have anesthetic resistance during previous surgeries should inform the surgeon.

4. Patients with facial paralysis and incomplete closure of palpebral fissures; patients with infectious diseases inside or outside the eyes should be cured before surgery. Those who have some kind of infection, mental illness, or mental disorder or instability.

5. Those whose eyeballs are protruding, sunken or whose eyelids are retracted due to various reasons; those who know that surgery will not achieve the ideal effect should be treated with caution.

6. Those whose family members are strongly opposed.

7. Avoid medication and coagulation disorders to avoid affecting the fetus or causing bleeding during surgery.

8. Women who are in their menstrual period, pregnancy or menstruation period.