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What is a serious contraindication of Botox?
In general, botulinum toxin is contraindicated in patients with a known hypersensitivity to the components of the formulation or with disorders of the neuromuscular junction. Patients taking aminoglycoside antibiotics or anticoagulants should not be treated with botulinum toxins.
Can Botox be life threatening?
Although botulinum toxin is life threatening, small doses — like those used in the application of Botox — are considered safe. In fact, only 36 cases of adverse effects associated with cosmetic use were reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1989 and 2003.
What chemicals does Botox block?
Botulinum toxin (BoNT), often shortened to Botox, is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species. It prevents the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from axon endings at the neuromuscular junction, thus causing flaccid paralysis.
Can Botox affect your heart?
The research shows that having facial Botox injections for cosmetic reasons can also produce side-effects including muscle stiffness, pain, dizziness and even a heart attack.
Can Botox cause heart problems?
Can Botox cause atrial fibrillation?
Only 7 percent of the patients who received Botox went on to experience atrial fibrillation during the pivotal one-to-three-week period following surgery. This compared with 30 percent of patients who didn’t get Botox.
Does Botox go through your liver?
“Botox [sticks] around in your face for six to eight months and then is directly metabolized by the body at the site of injection,” he says. “It’s processed by the liver and kidney and then eventually secreted.”
Can you get a stroke from Botox?
Cosmetic procedures like facial fillers, when incorrectly placed, can cause swelling, pain, lumps beneath the skin, facial scarring and if injected into the retinal artery, can even cause blindness and stroke.
Can Botox affect your heart rate?
Botox — known for reducing facial wrinkles — may also prevent irregular heart rhythms when injected into fat surrounding the heart after bypass surgery, according to research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.
Does Botox affect your brain?
Although there have been recent lawsuits in the media attempting to link Botox to brain damage, there’s no concrete evidence to suggest that Botox actually causes brain damage. That being said, when Botox is injected not using proper precautions, it can potentially result in nerve damage.
Does Botox affect the heart?
What happens if Botox goes into an artery?
Bruising after receiving a BOTOX treatment is rare, but it can happen to some. Even the best physicians can cause a patient to bruise after administering BOTOX. It often occurs when the needle knicks a blood vessel, allowing blood to leak below the skin’s surface and causing the surface to appear reddish and/or purple.
Can Botox go into a blood vessel?
This can happen with Botox injections similarly to how bruising can occur. As the needle enters your skin, it can nick a small capillary or vein, causing blood to come out of the injection site.