Does Botox Really Damage The Brain
Botulinum Toxin Type A can get into your head. Literally. Analysts from Pisa, Italy have been injecting rats with Botulinum Toxin Type A and watching what occurs. These findings were extemely surprising.
Botox stops the release of neurotransmitters from explicit nerve endings. When it is injected into the skin, it is taken up by the nerves, and over time stops the release of neurotransmitters, shutting off those nerves.
In dermatology, we use botox treatments to shut off the nerves that control muscles in your face, like your forehead and brow. With those nerves blocked, you can’t contract the muscles, so they stay flat. It is analogous to having wrinkles in your pants. While you are standing, the pants hang loosely and are smooth. When you sit, your thighs and hips wrinkle the material, forming creases or wrinkles. In the same way, when your facial muscles contract, they crunch up, creasing the skin and forming wrinkles.
So what about the botox?
Results from this Italian study refute the idea that botox stays domestically in the skin. They discovered that the botox injected into the rodenst followed the nerves back to the rodents brain, shutting downnerves there.
What does this mean?
This is a important question. The study was focused in rats, not people. We don’t know if it would do the same thing in humans even if some Botulinum Toxin Type A did get into the brain, there’s no proof at all that it has any meaningful effect, good or bad. As an example, we all know that smoking kills brain cells and stops other cells from developing. Does that suggest that smokers or ex-smokers have any suggestive brain effects from their habit?
Botox is a superb and powerful drug. In treating wrinkles and fine lines, there are not many if any treatments short of aggressive surgery that will compare to the results that botox offers. It is , however , a drug and has side effects and has the potentiality to be misused and even abused. Botox injections have been used safely in millions of people, but there are hazards. It’s also dear and its effects are non permanent, so botox isn’t for everyone.
If you’re not ok with presuming risks of botox, or your financial position doesn’t make allowance for it, then think about this viable alternative : use a night cream that contains tretinoin or ROC. No facial cream is more effective at reducing fine lines than tretinoin.
Use an cold pack to help prevent swelling and bruising at the injection sites. Topping your face before and after the procedure can be useful in this regard. Your doctor should have icepacks available for you to use.
Plan to go back on regularly. Most Botox injections last at least 3 months and some last as long as a year. There’ll be a point , at which the toxin wears off and you will have to have the process repeated to maintain results.
If you recently had botox and look in the mirror one morning and think that you are a decade younger, don’t worry, it’s not brain damage, it’s just your face on botox.