I just lost 45 kg, my skin is now elastic, sagging, with many excess parts. Should I cut off excess skin? Is it dangerous? (Hung, 37 years old, Hanoi)
After losing weight, many people experience excess skin. Young people whose skin still has good elasticity will shrink on its own. There are many people who have lost a large amount of weight and their skin’s elasticity is poor. The skin will not shrink on its own, causing a very obvious sagging phenomenon. These cases require surgical intervention when ensuring all criteria for a comprehensive routine health examination, safe anesthesia, wound healing after surgery, and no chronic diseases contraindicating surgery. .
In fact, surgery to remove excess skin is not a difficult technique, most plastic surgeons can do it. However, this has the potential risk that the wound heals slowly, does not heal, and can leave bad scars after surgery.
Almost all excess skin on the body can be removed. In some areas where the joint is mobile, when cutting, the doctor will consider the surgical path and the amount of skin cut to avoid cutting too much, causing scarring and limiting joint movement.
In general, after losing weight and leaving a lot of excess skin, you need to see a plastic surgeon for advice on removing the excess skin. In case the amount of excess skin is large, the doctor will calculate the shortest and most reasonable incision to ensure the best wound healing, then combine scar treatment methods to reduce the scar line. fastest scar healing process, such as pressure bandages, anti-scar medications, surgical sewing techniques to reduce long scar lines.
If you want to limit excess fat after losing weight, you need to lose weight slowly. During the process of losing, you should exercise continuously to burn fat naturally. You combine wearing shapewear and shapewear to help the excess fat disappear.