Breastfeeding with Implants – Safe?
Check with your own plastic surgeon, general practitioner or pediatrician. A recent report published in the November 1998 issue of PEDIATRICS said substantially the following: “Children of Mothers with Breast Implants at No Higher Risk For Esophageal Disorders” On November 30, 1998, an Arlington Heights, Illinois PRNewswire story relayed that children of women who have silicone breast implants are not at an increased risk of having auto-immune disease. The article was reporting the results of a study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Previously, in a 1994 study, it was hypothesized by a Danish study that there might be a link between scleroderma-like esophageal diseases in children whose mothers had breast fed them and who also had silicone breast implants. The current study examined the hypothesis of the Danish study and looked at 939 children who had been born in Denmark over a period of 15 years to 1135 mothers who had had breast implants. At least 84% of the women had
