A Cheap, Fast and Deadly Route to Beauty
Article Source: Health And Fitness Journal
The illegal use of injected silicone as an alternative to cosmetic surgery is on the rise.
An underground beauty industry uses injections of black-market, medical-grade silicone or industrial-grade silicone as a cheap, fast and easily accessible way to plump up breasts, buttocks and thighs. But silicone can migrate through the bloodstream, creating potentially fatal clots in the lungs, and it can also migrate through tissues, leading to ugly lumps and chronic pain
New York City’s poison control center has received three calls in the last 10 months from doctors who have treated patients injected with silicone. In the previous two years, there were only two such cases total.
There may be other cases that have gone unreported. Doctors are not legally obligated to report silicone poisoning or even death, and silicone is hard to detect through X-rays or CT scans.
Nationally, reports of buttock enhancement using silicone and similar thick liquids have surfaced throughout the U.S. Silicone is not approved for injection into tissues at all.
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Article Source: Health And Fitness Journal
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