Many beauty injections, hoping to change luck and suck fortune, have to ask for help from a doctor

The latest case is a woman over 30 years old, from Hau Loc, Thanh Hoa. She told me that a few months ago she went to see a feng shui master, he “said” her nose shape was not good, dissipated her assets, and could not keep her possessions.

Believing “teacher”, wanting to change her luck, this woman went to stretch her nose in a spa. A month later, seeing that the tip of the nose was still low, the shape of the nose did not improve as expected, so she went to the spa to inject another 1ml of filler into the tip of the nose and the bridge of the nose.

The female patient’s nose area is red and swollen after injecting filler to hope to “change luck”. Photo: BSCC

After a day of injection, the nose area appeared red and swollen. Afraid, she went to the spa and was injected with a solution, but it didn’t work. The patient went to the Central Dermatology Hospital to ask for help from the doctor.

Doctors appoint patients to use anti-inflammatory active ingredients, antibiotics to reduce the risk of necrosis, continue to inject the solution.

Before that, the Central Hospital of Dermatology also received many cases of complications with the “fad” to make “Buddha’s ears” after injecting fillers into the earlobe.

A 37-year-old businesswoman complains that her earlobes are quite thin and small, her ears are folded back, so she wants to edit it to have a happier appearance, “maybe change your luck”.

After 1 day of injection at a spa near home, the patient had to go to the hospital for a checkup because the filler injection part was painful, red, swollen and deformed.

Fortunately, the infected ear area was not necrotic and had to be removed because the patient came to the hospital early. However, the damage left behind causes many areas of the patient’s ears to be convex and concave, greatly affecting the aesthetics, unable to return to the original.

Not only women like this “fashion”, many men, from middle age (40-50) years old also choose inject filler to fill the earlobe hope to have “Buddhist” ears, attract wealth.

Side sharing Annual National Dermatology Conference 2022MSc.BSCK2 Nguyen Quang Minh, Deputy Head of the Department of Research and Application of Stem Cell Technology at the National Hospital of Dermatology, said that many patients come to the hospital to seek help from a doctor after injecting fillers. , injecting substances advertised as collagen because they want to change feng shui and destiny.

According to Dr. Minh, the positions that many people often intervene to change “feng shui” such as the nose, chin, ears, hollow cheeks, concave between the eyebrows, temples …

“Most people want to emphasize on their faces to change their fate and fortune. But it is these locations that often leave complications after filler injections“- Doctor Quang Minh said.

The reason is because these positions when injecting fillers are prone to high risk of invading blood vessels and passing nerves if the injector does not have good practice skills and understanding of structural anatomy.

Doctors say, fillers are substances that are used to put into the body with the role of increasing tissue volume, compensating for locations related to the lack of tissue organization in the skin as well as muscles. body. In medicine, doctors use fillers as a substance that increases tissue volume and increases water retention in the body.

Filler injection is a procedure that sounds simple but has many complications and risks. Areas such as the nose, if filler is injected by an untrained, knowledgeable person or “fake” filler, the risk of entering the retina’s central artery, entering the inside of the eye causes more serious complications such as gangrene. , blindness may occur.

All sorts of tricks to “dodge” the concept of filler injections

In the past few years, the media has continuously reported warnings about complications after injecting fillers at unscrupulous facilities, even death. Many places have “evaded” by not using the word “filler injection” or “filler injection” but “translating” the advertisement to customers as using “collagen active ingredient”, “collagen-promoting active ingredient”… for customer peace of mind.

These facilities advertise this as an anti-aging agent, collagen, or multi-layer regeneration as a recent “trend”, with the promise of filling the area without using fillers to attract customers.

Dr. Quang Minh said, the nature of using a large amount of collagen to fill the entire area is very difficult.

That’s because collagen active ingredients when put into the body can cause allergies, the risk of creating an immune response of the body. Therefore, most of the active ingredients put into the body have the role of stimulating collagen growth, in essence, they are involved in the filling process.

In fact, after injecting these substances advertised as collagen, the patient showed signs of swelling and hydration (like injecting fillers). Going to the hospital to handle complications, after being diagnosed by an ultrasound doctor and using a dissolving agent, it can be seen that the substance injected by the spa is a filler, not collagen.

Broken needle while injecting filler to remove nasolabial folds at the hair salon

According to Vo Thu