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    Did You Know Smoking Can Make Your Nipples Fall Off

    Anthony Youn, M.D., is a plastic surgeon in Metro DetroitI 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.


     


    Yes. Smokers who undergo breast lifts are at great risk of losing their nipples.


     


    I've seen it before.

    Read more: http://www.koat.com/health/29923658/detail.html#ixzz1fl9DQUpj


     

    +3  Views: 1139 Answers: 25 Posted: 12 years ago

    25 Answers

    Got to see it ,to believe it .

    barra

    you said it. PYTHON.

    That,ll keep HIM in a job then I presume.

    i guess no more smoking after sex..

    mycatsmom

    LOL. I remember that--from the days when I use to smoke

    I don't need them anyhow...............

    ROMOS

    Awwww.
    Poppy3

    YOU are just too funny!
    jhharlan

    But I'm not giving up smoking yet....
    mycatsmom

    jhharian, please consider giving up smoking for those who love you....like your family and us.

    So if you smoke Don't get a boob job! Simple!

    "Hope she is"not baby feeding at the time.

    eggplant

    It would choke on a nipple.
    dowsa

    maybe "Drown with all that milk flow coming "Out.

    I don't need a boob job either.

    Thank God it only applies to women. I've smoked so long other parts of my anatomy should have fallen off a long time ago.

    mycatsmom

    almost everyone that had bladder cancer was a smoker. Ditto for empysema, which nowdays, they call COPD

    Oh, the "facts" that we learn here on akaQA......hahahahaha 

    Didn`t know that but I do know if you unscrew your belly button your legs will fall off.

    Ed1530

    I thought that was true about the belly button but I was never sure if anyone but me knew about it.
    PEOPLELOVER

    I tried once Ed but it hurt so much I stopped.
    So much for my dedication to science.
    Ducky

    Moderator
    I know. I was cleaning mine once, and my right leg started to wiggle, so I decided to just leave the fuzz in it. Good thing. Phheeewww.
    mycatsmom

    mine's a '' inny '' . Is yours an '' outy ''?
    PEOPLELOVER

    Mycatsmom, mine is a inyy AND outty.( in out in out)
    Hang on you are referring to belly buttons, sorry I thought, never mind.
    Mine is a outty.

    I have to say it, what a lot of crap.--- i know a few women who have had breast reconstruction which can be put in the same catorgry as breast enlargement and they are all smokers and i have never heard them mention nipples falling off.----- As the saying goes -- ' Only in America.'

    Ed1530

    Yes but it might be better if you know someone who is going to do this have them not smoke American cigarettes.

    Really ??

    kekuva

    i've heard it too

    "Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk."  Yet another reason to stop smoking.

    Yes smocking rots anything, so anything might drop off.

    that must be why ,i am flat chested,??

    facebook

    Better flat chest than a pot belly!
    mycatsmom

    hector, you're a male, aren't you ?
    hector5559

    wait ,ill look ,??????yea im a male ,i think,??

    I do not smoke but I know a lot of women that smoke have not heard them say a word about losing theirs I think you concocted that story up.

    Oh shit is that what happened to them???


    BTW, did you know that if you hold a koala upside down by it's tail it's eyes will pop out?.

    mycatsmom

    I hope you never did that, b/c it's animal abuse.
    Tommyh

    DUH???

    that's not all smoking can make fall off.

    Ladies  you just don't stand a chance   ya got  them thar  cramps  now your  nipples are falling off   what the heck  your a mess  ha LOL

    That Doctor needs to get off these womens backs.

    If they turn black and fall off, then they are gangrene. That means the surgery was done wrong, and the nipples aren't getting enough oxygen .

    hhhmmm. I live in the Detroit area, and I've never heard of him , or heard that theory .

    """Is that what happened?"

    Correlating smoking to nipples "falling off" is a stretch.  In the situation you described (which is very rare) the reason a nipple may "die" is due to the very small arteries that bring oxygen to the nipples could  be damaged during surgery especially if the nipple was partially or fully removed and re-attached. Or the arteries farther away from the nipple were sliced and then re-attached. When this occurs if the arteries (and veins) aren't re-attached well then the nipple would not get enough oxygen- loss of too much oxygen eventually leads to tissue death.  Smoking can increase the hardening of arteries and less oxygen in the blood can occur. So, if a smoker has less oxygen flowing through their  nipple arteries,  nipple arteries that have hardened, and the surgeon has not done a good job re-attaching the arteries...well, the nipples would die. That's a lot of ifs to create the senario...and my apologies, if this doc. is seeing this "often" he needs to learn a different procedure to re-attach (called re-astamosis -sp?) the tissue, arteries and veins.  I am in the medical profession and have never heard of "nipple" death post surgery.  However, the above is the most probable reason it would occur in a smoker. Buyer beware- if the re-attachment is bad it would damage or cause death to a non-smokers"s nipple too.

    mycatsmom

    that's what I said.....tissue death is gangrene

    Aaaaaaaaaah, THAT'S why!!!!!!!



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