| Botox is among the foremost skin care and skin | | | | symptoms, headaches, dizziness, pharyngitis, and neck |
| alteration procedures available today, with an | | | | pain. The estimates of how many people develop |
| unparalleled ability to "remove" wrinkles and make the | | | | these problems range from 3% to 10%, though these |
| skin look younger and wrinkle-free. The treatment is | | | | numbers are subject to speculation because the |
| effective but temporary, such that plastic surgeon's | | | | conditions of the clinical trials vary. Most experts do |
| offices regularly get repeat customers for new | | | | not take these trials to be indicative of the situation |
| injections of the compound. However, as popular as it | | | | when put into actual medical practice. |
| is, botox is not always the safest choice for the type | | | | Blepharophasm, a condition where the eyelids close |
| of skin care and beauty maintenance that it does. The | | | | involuntarily, is also often associated with botox as a |
| name alone, botox, is an implication of the true nature | | | | side effect. The involuntary closing of the eyelids is |
| of the substance: botulinum toxin type A. While the | | | | often caused by muscle spasms and may involve just |
| form injected into people's faces and used as a skin | | | | one eye, though it is more common for both eyes to |
| care tool is not the raw and potentially toxic form of | | | | have the problem. Eye dryness, which often |
| the chemical, it can cause a number of unpleasant side | | | | accompanies blepharophasm, has also been |
| effects. | | | | associated with botox injection cases. The effects can |
| Upper respiratory infection is often reported as a side | | | | last for several days after the injection itself, but it has |
| effect of botox use, likely a remnant of the effects | | | | only been known to appear in roughly 4% of all botox |
| the pure toxin had on the body. This sign is often | | | | procedures. |
| accompanied by hypertonia, back pain, dizziness, | | | | Also, depending on just how diluted the toxic |
| violent coughing fits, and rhinitis. A general weakness | | | | components of botox are in the formula, the patient |
| has also been associated with this particular side | | | | might exhibit signs of being injected with botulinum |
| effect of botox, usually because the toxin is interacting | | | | toxin. According to some studies, a number of side |
| with parts of the body outside the intended area. While | | | | effects that come with botox injections are caused by |
| not toxic enough to be as lethal as it usually is, there | | | | the body developing an immune system response to |
| are still enough poisonous elements in the typical plastic | | | | the injection. Essentially, the body fights off the |
| surgeon's botox formula to be very dangerous if it | | | | biological effects of the injections (something it is |
| spreads beyond the intended area. According to | | | | unable to do if the toxin is at full strength) and prevents |
| statistics, roughly 12% of all botox cases suffer from | | | | it from doing what it is supposed to do. While there is |
| this problem after being injected. | | | | no data on just how this causes side effects, it has |
| Another side effect is primary a xillary hyperhidrosis, | | | | been linked as the primary cause of the problem. |
| which entails excessive sweating, pain, and the | | | | There were some indications that the closer the |
| possibility of hemorrhage. There is also the increased | | | | formula is to its toxic origins, the lower the chances of |
| risk of infection in the injected area, along with other, | | | | a successful immune response. Of course, that brings |
| minor discomforts. These minor signs include flu | | | | with it a new set of potential hazards. |