Botox Side Effects
The use of botox in the treatment of face wrinkles is, as with every other treatment, not without potential side effects. It is a known fact, however, that side effects occur more because of the usage of botox in untrained hands. Thus it is imperative that when you seek botox injections for the treatment of your face wrinkles, that you get professionally trained help.
It is fortunate that most of the side effects are uncommon, mild and transient.
The most common side effects are:
headache
a flu-like syndrome
pain, swelling or bruising at the site of injections
The side effect that is of most concern for the patient and the practitioner of botox injections is the effect on the muscles. This comes on when there is too much botox, too little botox, or botox effect on other than the intended muscles.
Too much botox for the treatment of face wrinkles results in near paralysis of the target muscle, resulting in the production of a mask-like face which does not wrinkle no matter how much the patient tries. Although this may be a desired effect on some western societies, especially in the area of film-making, this is not so in eastern societies, who prefer a minimization of wrinkles rather than complete absence of movement.
Too little botox obviously produces little or no effect on the target muscle, and the face wrinkle is only lessened slightly, needing further injections.
Wrong muscles: this results from either the wrong muscles being injected accidentally, or the unintended diffusion of the botox into adjacent muscles. Thus we can see occasional double vision that results from diffusion of botox into the muscles of movement of the eyeball.
As said before, even these side effects wear off with time, and the patient is back to normal within 4 – 6 months. Apparently recovery is speeded up by regular exercise of the affected muscles or the application of hot compresses which are supposed to increased the speed of breakdown of the injected botox.
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