Robert Whitfield MD explains why breast implants can worsen autoimmune disease. He says patients with existing autoimmune inflammation are generally not good candidates for implants, since the foreign body can exacerbate inflammation even though the disorder predates the surgery.
Before you go, if someone's listening and they have an autoimmune. Because a lot of people have an autoimmune disorder, how many of them do you think that the breast implant is contributing to this?
So when you look back, autoimmune disorders have been around for over 100 years, easy. So obviously, they beget implants. The problem is that environment. If it's already preconditioned for inflammation and you add another product to it, a foreign body to it, you're just going to make the propensity to them, then go on to have higher amounts of inflammation increase. So when I have those discussions with people, I'm like, if you showed up and you already had problems with inflammation from autoimmune disorder, I'd be like, to me, you're not a candidate to have an implant.
