Botox Information

Botox is a beauty product produced from Botulin, one of the 

most poisonous substances known to mankind.  According to 

scientists, 300 gm of Botulin, which is a toxin produced by 

the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, is enough to wipe out 

the whole human race. Fortunately, the vilest of human 

minds has not been able to come up with a method of doing 

this.

In contrast, medical researchers have found a way of using 

Botox to enhance the beauty of human race. They inject 

small amounts of the toxin to arrest the formation of 

wrinkles. Most would consider the physiology behind the 

process morbid. But the patients don't mind injecting Botox 

into their facial muscles, and paralyzing them. 

Since Botox is a neurotoxin, it attaches itself to nerve 

endings, and stops them from functioning. The muscles 

become helpless, and paralyzed. This process may take two 

to three days, depending upon the dose. First, the muscle 

movement slows down, and then it stops altogether.

The patient can now feel relieved. Since the muscles cannot 

move the wrinkles cannot be formed. The patient can look 

young and youthful for three to eight months, till the 

affect of Botox lasts. After that the patient needs to take 

a fresh dose of Botox.

Of course, the doctors need to exercise great care in 

injecting Botox. They must locate the muscle or group of 

muscles that have to be paralyzed, and inject the right 

dose. A high dose, when delivered wrongly can cause serious 

problems.

One of the popular uses of Botox is to remove frown lines. 

Many individuals don't want their looks to be marred by an 

excessive number of frown lines. This makes them look 

harsh, and cold. Botox paralyzes the muscles responsible 

for creating the frown lines. The result is that the frown 

lines vanish for the period that Botox holds its sway on 

muscles.

The Food and Drug Administration may have approved the use 

of Botox for cosmetic use but it is certainly not happy at 

the way it is being administered. There are reports in the 

US of people injecting Botox at parties or before parties 

to look younger. Sometimes, this is done without medical 

guidance. The FDA has been warning people not to use Botox 

after consuming liquor.

Fortunately, when administered properly, Botox is not known 

to produce any major side effects. At the most, there have 

been cases where patients have reported upper respiratory-

tract infection, headache, neck pain, soreness at injection 

site and nausea. Even these get minimized when Botox is 

taken under proper medical supervision.

Researchers would like to use Botox to treat more serious 

problems, like muscular spasms. In fact, the tests for 

Botox were initially meant to develop drugs for spasms. 

But they ended up in a cosmetic product.

However, the researchers have not given up. Work is 

continuing to develop a drug that can cure problems that 

affect the larynx muscles or which can cure problems 

related to facial spasms, head and neck tremors and 

excessive sweating.