A member asked:
Does smoking affect breast abscess wound?
5 doctor answers • 12 doctors weighed in
Dr. Stuart Wasseranswered
Addiction Medicine 36 years experience
See below: Smoking is bad for all healing including the type you mentioned. It probably won't be helped by stopping now, but stopping asst any time is a good idea.
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Dr. Daniel Paraanswered
General Surgery 31 years experience
Yes: Smoking cigarettes is never recommended, but especially when one is trying to heal a wound or acute infection. By constricting blood vessels, slower healing occurs due to lack of germ-fighting blood cells getting to the wound, and many other effects. It is a well-known surgical fact that wound healing and recovery is impaired by regular cigarette use.
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Dr. Barry Rosenanswered
General Surgery 35 years experience
Yes: Smoking lowers tissue oxygen levels which will interfere with your body's ability to heal the abscess wound. There is a particularly virulent form of breast infections called periductal mastitis where small abscesses form around the areola; this disease is very rare in nonsmokers and very difficult to cure in smokers. Quitting today will help your wound heal immediately.
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Dr. Stuart Wasseranswered
Addiction Medicine 36 years experience
See below: Smoking is bad for all healing including the type you mentioned. It probably won't be helped by stopping now, but stopping asst any time is a good idea.
5.6k viewsReviewed >2 years agoMerged
Dr. Kevin Hileranswered
General Surgery 43 years experience
Yes: Smoking has a negative effect on all wound healing! it will make healing harder!
5.6k viewsReviewed >2 years agoMerged
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A member asked:
Does smoking affect a breast abscess woundw?
2 doctor answers • 5 doctors weighed in
Dr. Stuart Wasseranswered
Addiction Medicine 36 years experience
See below: Smoking is bad for all healing including the type you mentioned. It probably won't be helped by stopping now, but stopping asst any time is a good idea.
5.6k viewsReviewed >2 years ago
Last updated Jul 9, 2019
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