Autoimmune diseases and breast lift augmentation

The connection between breast lift augmentation surgeries and autoimmune diseases has been suspected for a long time. Suspicion turned to facts when a research from the National Health Institute led by Dr. Lori Brown found out that women whose silicone implants have leaked into the chest cavity were much more prone to getting an autoimmune disease, such as dermatomyositis, a connective-tissue diseases, or pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that has no cure but a lung transplant.

The relationship between silicone and the human body is a very conflicting one. Even when saline implants are chosen for breast lift augmentation procedures, the outer layer of the implant is also made of silicon. It has been found, even though cosmetic industry went blue on the face explaining that silicone molecules were just too big to interact with human cells, or move around in the blood torrent, they will just decompose in smaller molecules. What they swore would never happen, just did. Silicone decomposed in a white powder, silica, and smaller silicon molecules that rapidly spread in the body. And this was found out by luck, when they proceeded to change old saline implants for new ones.

Women whose silicone implants had leaked outside the chest cavity -the silicon had finally spread- had a significant higher risk of suffering polymyalgia, eosinophilic fascitis, dermatomyositis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, polymyositis, pulmonary fibrosis, and fibromyalgia. Definitely not a very nice picture after a breast lift augmentation surgery. The worst was that many of the woman included in the study were not aware that their implants had leaked.