What should I expect after treatment with Botox?
Botox is a remarkably safe therapeutic agent for treatment of wrinkles. The complications were minor and temporary. Bruising may occur where the injection is given and mild pain, will likely have a headache after the procedure. Contusions may be more noticeable in patients taking aspirin or other blood-thinning medication. If possible you should stop the administration of these products prior to injection. Ice helps prevent bruising. The muscle weakness is noted in 24 hours is not immediate.
How long does the effect of Botox?
After the first set of injections, you can have another two weeks reinjection after allowing the location of any resistance from the muscles. With this method, 90% or more of patients respond to Botox. This leaves 10% who do not respond to treatment. The success of treatment lies with the weakening of the muscle that begins between 24 to 48 hours after injection and maximum muscle weakness is determined in seven days. The paralysis of the muscle after the first injection lasts between four and seven months in most patients.
How often Reinjection is needed?
The re-injection is suggested every three or four months to keep the paralyzed muscles and allow wrinkles vanish. Once the area is smoothed out completely, he instructs the patient to return to therapy only when he returned he noticed muscle movement. What may well not occur for at least four months to a year or sometimes longer.
Who should not use Botox?
Although no birth defects reported by the use of this medicine, do not treat pregnant patients. And another of our policies is not to inject Botox to patients who are breastfeeding your baby.
Patients with a history of neuromuscular disease (multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis) or other related diseases neurotransmition should avoid using this medicine.
What can bring unexpected benefits Botox?
In some patients the headaches are gone. These headaches occurred in patients who during periods of stress tighten their muscles in the forehead. Once those muscles relaxed headaches disappeared.
Do you have described cases of allergic reaction to Botox?
There have been no cases of allergic reaction in nearly 20,000 treatments. People who know they are allergic to botulinum toxin or albumin should avoid the use of Botox.
What if a patient becomes pregnant shortly before or after treatment?
A good number of patients with neurological and ophthalmic conditions have given birth to normal babies after receiving their injections. For security reasons, or women who are pregnant or breastfeeding your baby will be treated.
Are the injections painful?
They used smaller needles and the medicine itself does not hurt as much as the local anesthesia is usually used. The pain can be minimized with the use of ice cooling the skin a few moments before the injection. We apply a local anesthetic is applied half an hour before the treatment. Thus the disturbance is minimal.
As a patient, after receiving my injections
How can I help that Botox is more effective and avoid the side effects?
First, do not massage the area that has been injected. Second, do not lie down for a nap, remain upright. Third intentionally use the injected muscle, causing the muscle to contract this helps you locate the protein by ablation.
When you inject a muscle does not affect others?
Botox spreads through the muscle fibers and does not spread to distant sites by blood flows.
Can I use Botox to weaken the muscle partially paralyze not totally?
If indeed this is done so that the face does not remain untold. You can also use to be a balance in the weak muscle on the opposite side. Injecting medication between subcutaneous layers, not in muscle, using small doses is safer than muscle weakness occurs.
What do you mean that in some patients probably no longer needed other treatments after a few sessions of injections?
What happens is that the patient break the bad habit of frowning and probably will not learn it again in the future.
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