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'Smoking can make your nipples fall off': Plastic surgeon warns of gangrene following breast lift
The Daily Mail (UK) ^
| December 6, 2011
| Claire Bates
Posted on 12/09/2011 8:41:34 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Smoking can make your nipples fall off - this is the astonishing claim by Dr Anthony Youn, one of American's top plastic surgeons.
The practitioner from Detroit, Michigan, was quick to point out this applied to patients who underwent breast lifts to perk up their chests.
He said the nicotine and carbon monoxide taken in during smoking can disrupt blood flow to different parts of the body and so disrupts the healing process following surgery.
The toxins can act as a 'virtual tourniquet' and effectively kill a body part by stopping blood from reaching it.
Speaking to CNN Health, Dr Youn said: 'I cringe every time I see a patient for a breast lift who is a smoker.
'I’m deathly afraid that despite my warnings, she will smoke before or after surgery and cause her nipples to turn black and fall off.
'I've seen it before,' he claimed.
Dr Youn said he treated one female smoker whose nipples had turned purple after smoking caused the tiny veins in the breast to fail, leading to a backup of old blood.
Left untreated they could have turned black and fallen off.
He had to resort to using leeches over several days to suck out the old blood and so restore the woman's nipples to a healthy pink.
He told CNN he now made sure all of his patients understood the dire outcomes that could result from smoking following a cosmetic operation.
'If you are having a breast lift or reduction and you smoke, your nipples could turn black and fall off.
'If you are having a tummy tuck and you smoke, you may get an infection resulting in a big gross open wound that will take three months to heal.
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KEYWORDS: gangrene; nannystate; napl; plasticsurgery; smoking
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"I found these nipples in the sewer..." #AquaTeenHungerForce
To: Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; bamahead; CSM; ...
Sounds like he may be simply piling onto the anti-smoking bandwagon.
Sort-of-a-Nanny State PING!
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:43:21 AM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
There is a Southpark episode in this.
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:47:59 AM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He had to resort to using leeches over several days to suck out the old blood and so restore the woman's nipples to a healthy pink.
When regular pasties just won't hold.
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:49:20 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Raquel: Non-smoking, yet she is still smoking hot.
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:49:26 AM PST
by
optiguy
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's true!
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:50:15 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
To: cripplecreek
Ah smoking, is there anything it can’t do?
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:51:10 AM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“He had to resort to using leeches for several days to suck out the old blood....”
FINALLY someone came up with something useful for the OWS to do!;)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
'Smoking can make your nipples fall off' Put that on the surgeon general's warning on cigarette packs.
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:51:59 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
OK, let me be the first:
“What a boob!”
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:53:24 AM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
To: TSgt
I was laughing at the pic until I saw what was hanging down. Then I threw up.
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posted on
12/09/2011 8:53:43 AM PST
by
optiguy
(Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; martin_fierro; mikrofon
Smoking can make your nipples fall off. . . . I was just thinking yesterday, I said to myself, "You know, there are certain sentences that will never appear in the English language, oh, like, 'Smoking can make your nipples fall off.'" And then I wake up this morning and see this! It's a funny world.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So, if I don’t like my nipples, I should take up smoking?
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posted on
12/09/2011 9:03:02 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Dr Youn said he treated one female smoker whose nipples had turned purple after smoking caused the tiny veins in the breast to fail, leading to a backup of old blood.
This thread is soooo gonna get pulled. Might as well have some fun before it does.
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posted on
12/09/2011 9:09:49 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That’s probably why women aren’t supposed to smoke when breast feeding. What a nasty trick to play on a baby.
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posted on
12/09/2011 9:09:52 AM PST
by
Jaxter
("Pro Aris et Focis")
To: Charles Henrickson
what would make that sentence great is if it were read aloud by Jackie Mason
To: al baby; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; JRios1968; martin_fierro; pax_et_bonum; ...
It does sound pretty funny...
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posted on
12/09/2011 9:11:24 AM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Apparently this surgeon can’t put a nipple back on a breast during reduction or reconstruction surgery without worrying that the darn thing might fall off (and is all set to place the blame on any and all things besides his lack of skill)
....he must not have been paying attention during HomeEc sewing.....
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posted on
12/09/2011 9:13:49 AM PST
by
libertarian27
(Agenda21: Dept. of Life, Dept. of Liberty and the Dept. of Happiness)
To: Jonty30
[ So, if I don’t like my nipples, I should take up smoking? ]
You gotta get the breast lift first.....
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posted on
12/09/2011 9:13:58 AM PST
by
GraceG
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