Diabetes and surgery!

[Faut1990 0]

Hey, friends! My mom is considering an eyelid surgery in Toronto. She is quite scared to go under the knife. Actually, I am forcing her to undergo this procedure. I want her to look young. She will be turning 52 this June. She is diabetic. Will that be a problem? I have read somewhere that diabetes would affect wound healing. Is that true? Is she an eligible candidate for this procedure? Please advice

[Vulcan 3,254]

I feel you are in the wrong forums to ask this sort of question (Though Kenshiro may actually know something about this),

 

However a quick google search has come up with:

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884790/

 

 

For years, plastic surgeons have noted delayed wound healing in their patients with diabetes mellitus. The exact mechanism for this impairment, however, is not yet completely understood. Researchers have found that hyperglycemia affects the macro- and microvasculature and creates metabolic derangements that affect wound healing at the cellular level.

Diabetics suffer from increased rates of wound infections and breakdown.23 Uncontrolled hyperglycemia results in impaired phagocytosis and poor bacterial killing during the inflammatory phase. The presence of bacteria in a wound impairs normal wound healing. Diabetics suffer from an accumulation of advanced glycosylation end products, which contribute to poor oxygen delivery at the capillary level.25 The ultimate consequence is a hypoxic environment that further inhibits resolution of local infection. Heavy infection causes an imbalance in collagen production favoring collagenolytic activity and prolongs the inflammatory phase, preventing peripheral epithelialization and wound closure.

 

From my understanding of it, Your Mother might have an increased risk of infection due to the decreased rate of healing ,

Keyword, "MIGHT"

I'm no doctor and I'd sincerely suggest consulting the surgeon in charge. 

 

Edit:  Re-read your post, You really shouldn't force your mother to go through Plastic surgery o_o 

Edited February 24, 2016 by Vulcan

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,302]

Wait, let me get this straight: It's an entirely cosmetic, elective surgery, and you're forcing your mother to go through with it?  I don't particularly care how young or old my mother looks; she's my mom.  If there's even a chance of this unnecessary surgery being detrimental to your mother's health, you might wanna reconsider.

[AzureNightLight 122]

Forcing someone to undergo something that they are scared shitless by is kinda a bad thing. Okay a really bad thing. Like what if you had a deathly fear of water and your dad just comes by and literally shoves you in there saying, 'You gotta learn how to swim mate!'

[Jest (Inactive) 875]

@@Faut1990, 

 

I can't tell if this is a troll post or not, but if you are serious about forcing your own mother to get surgery to look younger then you have some issues, to put it lightly.  

[Jeric 46,851]

Hey, friends! My mom is considering an eyelid surgery in Toronto. She is quite scared to go under the knife. Actually, I am forcing her to undergo this procedure. I want her to look young. She will be turning 52 this June. She is diabetic. Will that be a problem? I have read somewhere that diabetes would affect wound healing. Is that true? Is she an eligible candidate for this procedure? Please advice

While I am starting to become more knowlegeable in thibgs like the USMLE and such, only a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Board Certified Physician/Internal/Plastics Surgeon can answer this question specific to your mother. I will tell you that if you phrase this question to them like you did us, no surgeon would touch your mother due to various ethical codes. You should never force anyone to have elective surgery!

 

And yes diabetes is a risk factor for surgical complications.

 

Locking.