Robert Whitfield MD explores whether mold in breast implants causes illness, pointing to aspergillus and ochratoxin as culprits. The EU limits ochratoxin in wine but the U.S. doesn't, so he recommends dry-farmed or organic wine for people with implants.
I see a lot of patients with breast implants who have mold exposures. And mold exposures, to me, most commonly come from, you know, the environment, whether it's in the air or the food. And there's lots of examples. Everybody's heard of black mold. That's aspergillus. But in things like food and wine, ochratoxin is commonly placed in wine all over the world. In the European Union, there's very specific guidelines about how much okra toxin can actually be in wine. Wine in this country, there aren't. So I will let you take that information, decide what you want to do. In terms of drinking wine in the United States, I would be cautious. You can explore things like dry farm wines, organic type wines. And those would be, you know, probably in a more sensitive person, like I'm describing, better options. The.
