Botox Treatments and Side Effects
Botox Treatment Anaheim CA involves injecting a protein into your muscles. This protein then causes your muscles to be temporarily paralyzed, as well as the muscle tendons that link muscles together to become deformed. Botox works by depleting the amount of acetylcholine in your neuromuscular junctions, thus effectively paralyzing the muscles that surround the affected area. The pain of Botox treatments depends on which nerves are affected and how much muscle activity is affected. You can generally expect a Botox injection to take one to three minutes to be effective.
Botox is used mainly for cosmetic treatment, such as to reduce eye wrinkles and make a smile more youthful. However, there are some medical conditions where it is useful. Botox is most effective for muscular weakness caused by infectious diseases like serious autoimmune diseases, sickle cell anemia, polymyositis, tendonitis, tendinitis, etc. The medical conditions where it is helpful to include muscular weakness due to Parkinson's disease, facial spasms, facial asymmetry, neck pain, uncontrolled muscle twitching, facial drooping, jaw pain, jaw muscle spasms, facial spasms, etc. In these cases, a physician may suggest a patient to undergo a Botox treatment.
Botox has also been used to treat facial wrinkles, especially in those patients where the cosmetic treatments are not suitable. The injections are injected into the facial creases that cause the face to look older. The procedure works by relaxing the muscle fibers and eventually paralyzing them. This reduces the facial wrinkles and makes the skin looking younger.
Facial droops and frown lines are not the only wrinkles that botox can treat. It is widely used in treating crow's feet, laugh lines, eye bags, and forehead lines. The injector will apply botox around the affected area and then slowly inject the solution to the muscles of the face. The process is repeated until the desired effect is achieved. Eye wrinkles and migraines are common problems where this is used. The doctor numbs the eyes and smoothes the wrinkles with an eyeliner before the injection.
Botox treatment is given as a numbing agent, or a headache abortive, for migraine headaches. Migraine headaches affect almost 2 million Americans. A study conducted in Canada on thousand adults who had suffered from chronic migraines for more than six months was conducted to determine whether Botox treatment reduced the frequency or severity of chronic migraines. The study found that those patients who were receiving Botox treatment were less likely to have their headache occur more than twice a week. In addition, there was a significant difference between those patients who were receiving Botox treatment and those who were not.
Botox treatments have also been used to treat bladder problems like incontinence. Bladder muscle weakness results when the muscles weaken over time. Botox works by relaxing these weakened muscles, which then restore proper bladder function. However, because botox can cause side effects like nausea and muscle weakness, it is best that patients not receive this treatment if they have bladder problems.
Botox causes very few side effects. Most patients report only mild soreness around the area of injection. This usually goes away within a day or two. There are also rare cases where injection sites swell, or redness occurs at other times. These cases are usually temporary and usually go away after a day or two.
Botox is generally used for cosmetic use. Botox can not cure or prevent any disease, nor does it slow the aging process. It is not considered a substitute for surgery and should never be used to substitute for regular injections of an anti-aging or paralyzing agent. If you have a severe muscle weakness, speak to your doctor about the benefits of a Botox injection. Botox treatments are not covered by insurance.
