Some people experience little to no swelling after liposuction, but there are many more who do not see any swelling. So, many people are worried about swelling a lot, but there is something that must be pointed out here. If you remove fat from your abdomen, arms, and thighs, your size will decrease accordingly. However, it is difficult to feel the size reduction for some time after liposuction. This is because of swelling. It is not noticeable because the swelling fills the reduced space. However, the size does not become noticeably larger than before surgery. Even if the abdomen and arms are swollen, on the day of surgery, the swelling is similar to before surgery or only slightly.

Thighs are a little different. Unlike the abdomen and arms, the thighs may remain similar to before surgery or may increase in size by 1 to 2 cm. When people hear stories like this, some people wonder if their thighs will swell too much or they will not be able to wear pants, but this can be seen as an excessive worry. If there is swelling after liposuction, it rarely swells to the point where you cannot wear clothes before surgery. About a week after surgery, my hands will swell when I go for a walk. For example, it is something that only you can feel, and it is not so swollen that others can notice it.

People who usually swell easily should be more careful.

As mentioned before, swelling varies greatly from person to person. There may be differences in swelling depending on whether the surgery is done well or not, but individual differences, which cannot be resolved with technology alone, have a greater impact. liver, kidney, renal system

The body may swell due to poor intestinal and hepatic function, and the body may swell even if blood circulation and metabolism are not carried out properly. For this reason, body swelling is a phenomenon that occurs when unnecessary moisture cannot escape from the body and stagnates in the body.

When performing liposuction, a solution called tumescent is injected into the surgical area. The tumescent solution is a mixture of saline solution, a local anesthetic such as lidocaine, and a constrictor called epinephrine. The amount of solution injected into one thigh is approximately 2 liters. About half of the solution injected during surgery comes out with the fat, but half remains in the body. This remaining solution causes swelling in the body due to the fluid that seeps in after surgery.

However, when a lot of recovery has been done, people with an active body, cooperative circulation, and metabolism have less swelling. This is because the solution can be expelled from the body quickly. On the other hand, people with poor blood or lymph circulation swell more and it takes longer for the swelling to go down.

Because swelling varies greatly from person to person, it is difficult to predict in advance how much swelling will occur. However, if you usually have a lot of swelling when you wake up, or if your legs are swollen in the afternoon after being fine for a while, you can think that there is a high possibility of swelling after liposuction.

If you move a lot, it will swell less and go down faster.

In order to safely and effectively perform liposuction, the injected tumescent solution takes

After this, it is naturally excreted through urine or sweat. At the same time, the body, which was swollen due to the tumescent solution remaining in the body and the fluid that permeated after the surgery, automatically returns to its original state. However, because there are so many people who feel the burden of body swelling, hospitals have been continuously researching ways to prevent swelling as much as possible. It has been suggested as an alternative to liposuction using cell rehabilitation oxygen equipment, but there is much controversy about its effectiveness.

Leaving the incision open for 1-2 days instead of suturing it right away after liposuction is a commonly used method to reduce body swelling. If you squeeze out the remaining tumescent solution through the incision, you can expel the insides more quickly, so pour less. So, I used the method of leaving the incision open for a while, but these days I am moving towards suturing again. If the incision is not sutured, there is a risk of remaining bacteria infiltrating through the incision, and even if the gauze is thick, the solution will flow and become wet. In addition, there were complaints that it was difficult to tolerate such inconvenience, so it is currently almost being discarded. Even after suturing, the swelling often goes down after 1-2 days.

However, as more and more customers prefer something more comfortable even if it is slightly less swollen, the area is often sutured unless specifically requested by the customer. There is no reason to insist on opening the fortune telling that customers feel that it is the most inconvenient when it is open, but it will be a little less swollen. Once opened, many methods are used within 1 to 2 hours after surgery, which is sufficient before needing to be seen at the hospital.

Technically, a better way to swell less is to move more.

It is best to move immediately from the same day. If you move a lot, blood circulation becomes active and the tumescent solution is absorbed quickly. The solution concentrated in the surgical area is quickly absorbed throughout the body, resulting in less swelling. Also, if you move a lot, your metabolism becomes active and the subsequent solution is expelled out of the body quickly, so swelling goes down quickly.

In very rare cases, there are people who, due to their constitutional characteristics, swell more even if they walk the same way as others, and the swelling does not go away easily. For these people, it is a good idea to get help from diuretics prescribed by a doctor. Taking diuretics for about a week after surgery can effectively reduce swelling.

Tips Tumescent, the person who started the liposuction revolution

It is no exaggeration to say that the history of liposuction is divided into before and after the development of tumescent solution. Without the tumescent solution, liposuction would not have become as popular as it is now. The history of liposuction first began in Germany in 1964. Schrudde of Germany was the first to discover this application when he cut fat with a thin fiber laser and discovered that some of the bleeding and fenestration accumulated in the subcutaneous skin box were removed after this stimulation.

Professor Fischer, a medical doctor who developed this procedure in Western Europe, used the same method in the mid-1970s to manage floating blood using a regular pump including an eagle mode, using hemostasis and some artificial liposuction. It may be possible to block the surgical method and effect by preventing lymphatic vessel and nerve damage, but this repetition is for the subcutaneous peeling mechanism.

Will scars really disappear completely?

Sleeveless, short miniskirt, belly button tee, bikini. What do these have in common? These are the clothes that every woman wants to wear after losing excess weight. Perhaps that is why people who undergo liposuction are sensitive to scars. It’s natural. There is nothing more unfair than having a beautiful, solid body created after liposuction, but being unable to wear the clothes you wanted to wear because of the scars.

Liposuction requires an incision in the skin. When you think of an incision, it’s easy to think of a long cut, but in fact, the act called an incision in liposuction is the same as making a very small ‘hole’. Because a wound is still a wound

No matter how long it takes, scars will almost disappear in 1 to 2 years.

Scars occur in all types, but there are slight differences depending on the individual’s constitutional characteristics. Some people are constitutionally prone to getting scars and they don’t disappear easily, while others are less likely to get scars than others, and even if they do, they disappear quickly.

Age also affects scars. Usually, the older you get, the longer scars remain, which is related to the skin’s regenerative ability. If regenerative power is good, wounds heal quickly and scars disappear quickly. On the other hand, if regenerative power is weak, it takes a long time for the wound to heal and the scar lasts a long time.

However, it is very rare for any person to have permanent scars from liposuction. The scar disappears in about 1 to 2 years. Of course, there are cases where it is not noticeable even before that. As long as the upper part is well managed with cream and the color of the scar fades over time, there is no major problem even if it does not disappear completely.

Where on earth is the scar?

In the early days of liposuction, incisions were often made in highly visible places. Multiple incisions were often made to easily remove fat. As a result, many scars were created, and when they were visible, patients were bound to complain.

Korean people are especially concerned about scars as well as the results of surgery. No matter how good the results are, you will not be satisfied if the scars are visible. As a result, doctors had no choice but to worry about how to minimize scars and how to make scars invisible. With such concerns, many technologies have been developed to make scars small and invisible as much as possible.

First, an incision is made in one area to maximize the effect of the surgery. However, there are cases where additional incisions have no choice but to be made when necessary.

Protruding block scars (hypertrophic scars) can be solved with just one injection!

Even though the wound is completely healed, there are cases where the scar appears bulging. Usually, the scar remains flat, but in about one in 100 people, the scar bulges out. Scars that bulge like this are called hypertrophic scars. The scar itself also has active cells, producing excessive collagen. This causes the scar to bulge.

Suppressing this excessive collagen production through scar injections flattens the scar. Although it is a simple treatment, the number of injections may vary depending on the patient’s condition.