Botox injections can cause paralysis of nerve organs

Although very popular, Botox (also known as anti-wrinkle medicine) is one of the most lethal substances on Earth. Just an average of Botox 0.000000160 grams can make a person weigh 80kg death.

It is assumed that it will not be a problem to use only a small dose of Botox and follow your doctor's instructions, meaning that the amount of Botox injected into your body will be in the place where it was inserted. But recent studies have shown that only during the first injection, toxins can spread to nerve organs.

Before you feel scared, you should know that the extremely small doses that doctors currently use for patients are not worrisome. They only have 0.0000000073 grams per 100 vials and most people can receive 10 vials in one session.

Botox can be harmful to nerve organs.(Photo: Monkey Business).

Research has shown that Botox is safe for most patients and it also has some important medical benefits. By inducing local paralysis, this medication not only smoothes wrinkles but also treats migraine headaches, muscular abnormalities and helps with weight loss.

"There are many people who believe that Botox is safe to use, they are still in the right place where we inject it and you don't have to worry that the poison will come to the central nervous system, causing terrible consequences." , Edwin Chapman - head of research at the University of Wisconsin - Madison said. Chapman and his team have now found evidence that Botox can spread to nerve organs.

This is not the first time researchers suspect that Botox can spread. In 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a warning on drug information: "Botox can spread from an injection site and create persistent symptoms with " botulism ". (Food poisoning caused by the toxin of Clostridium botulinum) ".

"Botox can cause life-threatening symptoms such as difficulty in breathing and swallowing. There have been many reports of death related to the effects of Botox poisoning spread , " FDA said. newspaper. Doctors also witnessed many abnormal manifestations and suggested that Botox could affect other parts of the body. "In many cases, after a single injection to paralyze the pain in the neck muscles, there is no deformity above the muscle but the patient feels full of faith and happiness. This result. cannot be explained by the effects at the injection site, " said Ewa Bomba-Warczad - one of the researchers.

Botox can cause life-threatening symptoms such as difficulty in breathing and swallowing.

But now no one really believes Botox can spread to nerve organs. To prove this is true, the researchers raised the neurons in the lab. They keep these neurons in a disk connected by a small channel that allows them to transmit signals through long "ears" called nerve fibers . Then the researchers injected Botox into one of the nervous organs and they conducted observations of the level of molecules in Botox moving. They found that Botox prevents neurons from transmitting signals to muscles that cause local paralysis. But they also found that the toxin moved to neighboring neurons through nerve fibers.

Much research is needed to explain how this happens and why to determine that this phenomenon actually happens to people, not just in the laboratory. But the good news is that if we know more about how Botox works, we can find ways to prevent them from spreading while maintaining the benefits of therapy - something that Chapman thinks Botox will especially appeal to doctors.