Relieving skin of sweat with Botox

Get a Botox injected this summer into the sweat glands under your skin to temporarily block chemical signals from the nerves that stimulate sweat glands medically called Hyperhidrosis wherein the sweat may emit a very bad odour or gives ugly looking sweat marks on the attire.

In the same way, a few may have excess sweating of palms, which also can be addressed by the 'Summer Botox'; since it’s very painful to inject into hands better be done under short Anaesthesia to avoid unpleasant feeling. The results last about seven to eight months it can reduce sweating anywhere from 60-90 per cent.

Since it prevents sebaceous over-activity it can help in the problems like Acne, Rosacea (flushing and excessive sweating of face), Rhinophyma (bumps on tip of nose with bulkiness). For routine acne, there are several alternatives like creams, etc, but they need to be applied every day.

General Botox
Botox can be used at many places for enhancing beauty, reversing damage and impact of ageing, and a multitude of other reasons that make the body look bad. The most common spots are crow's feet around the eyes, frown lines between the eyebrows, furrows on forehead, lip angle modulation, gummy smile correction and to soften strap muscles of the neck mastication, muscle of cheek and reduces the prominence of the jaw line and teeth-grinding.

Minimising the force of contraction of forehead muscles, in turn, reduces incidence and intensity of migraine headaches by blocking trigeminal nerve and trigeminal neuralgia. Botox typically wears off in three to four months, though it might last a few months longer the first time around.

Standards
FDA-approved neurotoxins (like Botox, Dysport and Xeomin) are very diluted, less potent version of pure neurotoxins, which is how they can safely relax muscle they’re injected into, without affecting surrounding muscles. “Even the muscle into which it is directly injected will not fully relax or be paralysed.”

Benefits and Safeguards
Botox injections significantly improve pain levels and overall quality of life for those who suffer from chronic neck spasm and pain, a congenital deformity of Clubfoot, hyperactive urinary bladder, hemifacial palsy to attain correction or equality.

Botox is not filler. Instead, an injection of it relaxes the muscle that's forming the wrinkles, rather than plumping it up (like fillers do). Treatment is a needle injection and will take anywhere from five to 15 minutes on average depending on how many areas are being treated.

To prevent bruising, sometimes hold pressure at the injection sites, along with ice to apply to the area for 10 minutes post-treatment. Another tip to minimise bruising is avoided by blood thinners, like aspirin, ibuprofen, fish oil supplements, and alcoholic drinks, before your treatment.

Context
“Beauty is pain, but in the case of Botox, beauty is a temporary pain, followed by complete (muscle) relaxation. Botox is actually brand name like Dysport and Xeomin of a particular strain of neurotoxin called Botulinum Toxin-A. Botulinum toxin-B is marketed under the brand name Myobloc.

This is a perfect example for “A poison in small doses is equal to medicine with best results”. Botulinum Toxin is a purified version of a nerve poison produced by the bacteria that causes botulism. In larger doses, it can cause death but in minute doses it prohibits nerves from delivering their signal to muscles, typically face and glands.

It does this by blocking the ability of the nerve ending to secrete acetylcholine which the muscle needs in order to contract. In 1820, Justinus Kerner, a German medical officer gave the first complete description of clinical botulism based on extensive clinical observations of so-called “sausage poisoning”. In 1895 (75 years later), Émile van Ermengem, professor of bacteriology and a student of Robert Koch, correctly described Clostridium botulinum as the bacterial source of the toxin.

About 34 attendees at a funeral were poisoned by eating partially salted ham, an extract of which was found to cause botulism-like paralysis in laboratory animals. With the outbreak of World War II, weaponisation of botulinum toxin was investigated at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Van Ermengem isolated and grew the bacterium and described its toxin, which was later purified by P Tessmer Snipe and Hermann Sommer.

The mechanism of botulinum toxin action–blocking the release from nerve endings of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine–was elucidated in the mid-1900s, and remains an important research topic. Nearly all toxin treatments are based on this effect in various body tissues.

Though the toxin was first purified in the late '20s, it wasn't used for therapeutic purposes until the early '80s. Over the next decade, doctors realised the drug could be used to control muscle spasms and inhibit sweating. In 1989, the FDA approved its use for cosmetic purposes in 2002.

In 2013 they approved its use to fight chronic migraines. For therapeutic reasons, it’s been used in Clubfoot for paediatric age group also but for Cosmetic purpose 18 years or older people are permitted to have Botox by FDA. - Dr Sailaja K Surapaneni, Laser and Cosmetic Skin Care Physician at Sri - Medical Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery