In my opinion, women with breast implants should be strongly discouraged from donating blood or organs. This bill was a favorable to women injured by SBI in that it also called for more research on silicone toxicity and would require silicone breast implant manufacturers to pay for the removal of breast implants for any recipient that requests it. Some children have developed a rare disorder, esophageal dismotility, which is experienced by some women with scleroderma, an autoimmune disease. Although these results are from small studies they are troubling indeed. Obviously, larger controlled studies are necessary to determine whether or not infants who breast feed from women with SBI have experienced an increase in immunological or other disorders.
Many benefits accrue from breast feeding.
In my opinion, women with breast implants, particularly those with signs and symptoms of silicone-related disease, should be strongly discouraged from breast feeding, and prohibited from donating to breast milk banks.