Do you know why we generally recommend no alcohol and no smoking for about a month after surgery?👀 Both alcohol and cigarettes can make swelling last longer, increase the chance of inflammation, and slow down wound healing. ✔ Why we recommend no drinking or smoking for a month after surgery ✔ How alcohol and cigarettes affect recovery ✔ Which is the better choice if giving up both is too hard A board-certified plastic surgeon explains📖 Check it out in the video✨
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After surgery, we generally tell you that for about a month you shouldn't drink or smoke. Personally, I think having a very small amount of alcohol may not have much of an effect, but there's a limit to what we can say from a medical team's standpoint.
If you drink and then, whether it's related or not, inflammation develops or some other problem comes up, the responsibility falls on whoever said drinking was fine, which would be us, the medical team. In any case, it's clear that alcohol and cigarettes make swelling around the incision last longer,
increase the chance of inflammation, and slow down wound healing. I know it's hard, but please hold off on drinking and smoking for about a month. And if you do both, and you just can't give up both,
and you ask me to let you keep at least one, I'd say alcohol is better than cigarettes.
The audio in this video is in Korean. The title, description, and subtitles are translations of the original Korean posted on the channel. Results may vary depending on each person's condition.
