Thursday, September 20, 2007

Breast Implant Receives Bee Sting

If you’ve ever wondered what the most embarrassing moment could be if you have breast implants, you are about to find out. A Taiwanese woman reported her breast implant was stung by a bee, which caused the breast implant to rupture.

The 31-year-old woman was riding her motorcycle wearing a low cut dress, when a bee stung her in the right breast. It took only two days – she woke up the second morning to find she had deflated on one side. It gives a new meaning to a small leak.
According to a Southern China Newspaper, the woman’s implants were three years old, and done by a qualified plastic surgeon in China. After hearing about this anomaly, it’s not surprising that you might start to worry about your own breast implants rupturing.

Not to worry – surgeon Zeng Dingchang says the saline implant is designed to resist pressure up to 200 kg so the rupture of this one is very unusual. In fact, I think this young woman should go buy a lottery ticket.

Surgeon Zeng Dingchang said it’s likely that her breast implant ruptured because she was so thin, the implant made her breast skin very thin, and so the bee sting was able to penetrate. The surgeon replaced the ruptured breast implant but did warn her that yoga or acupuncture could result in it bursting again.

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