Botulinum toxin side effects while trying to be pretty...Even life threatening
Jan 15, 2025
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According to Chinese media NTD TV, botulinum toxin side effects patients are flocking to many hospitals in Beijing, Jiangsu, and Shanghai recently. Most of the patients are said to have come from Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning.
The number of patients is estimated to be more than 300 so far, and most of them are women, ranging from their 20s to their 60s.
Their side effects were dizziness, blurred vision, double vision (double-looking phenomenon), numbness in limbs, difficulty swallowing, loss of voice, drooping right eyelid, and shortness of breath. Some patients were in such severe condition that their lives were in danger.
A doctor at a hospital in Beijing said "It's the first time this has happened.'
According to reports, Wang, who came from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, purchased 10 bottles of botulinum toxin from a small merchant for 8,000 yuan (about 1.6 million won), and prepared physiological saline and injected them into the face according to the seller's words. Wang later felt nauseous and giddy, but the seller said "Normal Reaction".
After seeing the advertisement, Mr. Hu, who lives in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, bought two bottles of botulinum toxin for 400 yuan (about 80,000 won) and injected them into his shoulder. Since then, she has had difficulty defecating due to difficulty swallowing and even fainting. When she visited the emergency room, the doctor said "If it were four minutes late, I would have lost my life."
The botulinum toxin they purchased was manufactured by a company in Shandong Province and is in the form of a freeze-dried powder.
Consumers used the powder by dissolving it in solution, making it into an injection solution, and then inoculating it.
The factory shipment price was about 20 yuan (about 4,000 won), which was mainly sold through social media.
This is a very low price considering that the factory shipment price of botulinum toxin produced by other manufacturers is about 800~1,000 yuan (about 160~200,000 won).
As a result, questions about the ingredients are being raised. In the past, so-called 'fake' botulinum toxin has been illegally distributed and has become a social problem in China.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
