This is an era of looking at faces.
From Cleopatra's use of gold beauty to today's non-knife injection light medical beauty, people's pace of love for beauty has not stopped, and the pursuit of beauty seems to have always been human nature.
But high returns are often accompanied by high risks.
Recently, Xiao Yang, a flight attendant in Xi'an, injected hyaluronic acid into the frontotemporal part at a beauty institution, and then began to have painful erythema. Afterwards, she went to the beauty institution for help, and the other party said that she had injected lytic enzyme and had more than 200 needles in her head for "bloodletting" treatment.
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Even more terrifying is still behind: after "bloodletting", Xiao Yang's ears suddenly bleed. Frightened, she went to Xi'an Central Hospital for medical treatment, and the doctor diagnosed that it was due to the injection of hyaluronic acid into the blood vessel, causing her right temporal embolism. And the "doctor" who injected Xiao Yang with hyaluronic acid has since disappeared after paying a fee of 10,000.
The medical aesthetic company involved was only established for 1 year. Unexpectedly, a very common beauty project almost killed people.
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"Clay of God"
Hyaluronic acid, also known as sodium hyaluronate, is a transparent colloidal substance, mainly distributed in the skin, joints, cartilage, eyes, connective tissue and other places, is a naturally occurring polymer polysaccharide substance in the body, known as "God's clay".
◎ Distribution of hyaluronic acid in the human body. / Station Cool Hero PLUS
Since hyaluronic acid was isolated from the bull's eye in 1934, scientists have begun to study how to use this ingredient, which is rarely rejected by the human body, which has long been widely used in the medical community, and in recent years, it has finally succeeded in moving from medicine to beauty and skin care products.
Hyaluronic acid is very absorbent and is a natural moisturizer that can absorb 1,000 times its weight in water. In fact, hyaluronic acid itself exists in the dermis layer of the human body, they are like gels, which can store water and support the skin. But as we age, the hyaluronic acid in the human body will slowly be lost.
◎ Hyaluronic acid has a strong water absorption function like a sponge. / Station Cool Hero PLUS
Therefore, supplementing the skin with hyaluronic acid has become one of the options for beauty lovers, and various hyaluronic acid products have also emerged.
The first is skin care products containing hyaluronic acid ingredients, such as original liquids, essences, and ampoules, but even if these applied skin care products have more hyaluronic acid, they cannot reach the dermis layer.
In fact, the stratum corneum of the human body is like a city wall, and its primary task is to act as a barrier against external stimuli. Therefore, most moisturizing skin care products are difficult to be absorbed, but act on the stratum corneum to improve skin problems. Since hyaluronic acid cannot penetrate deep into the dermis, these skin care products cannot replenish cellular moisture.
◎ The skin is composed of epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue. / Station Cool Hero PLUS
In addition, there is also a kind of skinbooster on the market, which sounds quite tall, but in fact, compared with the original solution, essence, ampoule, there is only a difference in packaging, and the role of hyaluronic acid itself is not essentially different, and can only achieve a short-term moisturizing and repair effect.
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Hyaluronic acid, eat VS beat
Since the smearing can't work, what about eating it directly into the stomach?
In recent years, hyaluronic acid foods have sprung up, such as hyaluronic acid mineral water, hyaluronic acid gummies, hyaluronic acid beer, etc., which seem to make people see opportunities.
In January 2021, the National Health Commission issued the "Announcement on 15 "Three New Foods" including cicada fruiting bodies (artificial cultivation), which expanded the use of sodium hyaluronate to milk and dairy products, beverages, alcohol, cocoa products, chocolate and chocolate products (including cocoa butter chocolate and products), as well as candy and frozen drinks.
◎ The hyaluronic acid beer launched by a certain brand, the price of 6 bottles is 299 yuan. / Web Images
Regarding the reasons why hyaluronic acid was approved as a new food raw material, the Shanghai Municipal Consumer Protection Commission asked a question to the official website of the National Health Commission and received a reply - the National Health Commission approved hyaluronic acid for consumption after organizing a review of the safety of sodium hyaluronate as a new food raw material in accordance with legal procedures.
Pay attention to the key word here - security. The National Health Commission emphasizes the safety of hyaluronic acid more than its effectiveness in approving its food.
Zhu Yi, associate professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, once said in an interview that hyaluronic acid was used as a health care product in the past, it did show that it could improve the skin's water retention function. At present, after being approved as a food by the state, the threshold has been lowered, and although the safety can be confirmed, there is no clear guarantee of effectiveness such as "eating water light skin", which has also caused controversy over its efficacy.
"Scientific experiments have found that hyaluronic acid can become the premise of hyaluronic acid synthesis in the body after eating, but hyaluronic acid after oral administration into the human body will be scattered throughout the human body. Whether and how much efficacy needs to be further verified. If you are old and the fibroblasts in the skin have aged, then no matter how much hyaluronic acid raw materials are provided, the body's insufficient synthetic ability cannot improve the skin condition. Zhu Yi said.
The only thing that can really add hyaluronic acid to the dermis layer may be injection skinboosters.
The main component of injectable skinboosters is hyaluronic acid, through a special injection device, fixed, layered, quantitative, hyaluronic acid and other nutrients are injected into the dermis layer.
There are 3-9 small needles on the skinbooster instrument, and if the whole face is hit, it is necessary to pierce dozens of times and leave hundreds of small needle holes in the face. Although the wound is small and can recover in about a week, if you hit it regularly, there is a risk that the skin will become sensitive skin.
◎ Injection principle of skinbooster. / Web Images
Secondly, hyaluronic acid is easily metabolized in the skin, so the injection effect of skinboosters can only be maintained for about 1-3 months, if you want to keep it all the time, you have to go for a shot every few months. Once you stop playing regularly, the effect will slowly fade and finally disappear completely. Skinbooster injections mostly cost thousands of yuan, and if you keep beating, the economic pressure is not small.
Moreover, although injection skinboosters do not use the knife and are not as laborious as plastic surgery, they are not absolutely safe and reliable.
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Life cannot bear the pain
When it comes to microplastic surgery and medical beauty, "plastic surgery" and "steamed bun" are the keywords that jump into the minds of many people, and sometimes there are many risks hidden behind beauty.
CCTV's 3.15 program once reported that some "beauticians" without medical background only practiced injections on chicken legs and dared to inject hyaluronic acid on their faces after three or five days of rapid success.
◎ Some medical accidents involving hyaluronic acid that have occurred in the past one or two years. / Network screenshot
There are also some "small workshop" beauty salon beauticians, who only need to train for a few days to become the so-called "teachers" who inject hyaluronic acid and skinboosters into customers.
A reporter learned that many skin management and eyelash salon shops have injection medical beauty and double eyelid surgery services, which can be operated in beauty salons, and surgeons with knives may only be "senior beauticians".
The post-80s Wayne (pseudonym) is a new mother. From childhood to adulthood, her skin has remained fair, smooth and delicate, and even acne rarely appears. But since giving birth, staying up late has become commonplace, her skin is visibly tarnished, and every time she looks in the mirror, she is annoyed by sagging skin, enlarged pores, and obvious nasolabial folds.
In a chat with the sisters, everyone talked about skinboosters, she listened and listened, and her heart was moved: "Is it really so amazing?" ”
The very next day, she went home and passed a beauty salon where the salesman warmly invited her up for a free skincare experience. Halfway through the pore cleansing, the beautician meticulously pointed out her skin problems while selling various items such as skinboosters and offering attractive package prices. Wayne listened to her depiction, and a beautiful picture of herself being reborn appeared in her mind.
She wavered, but hesitated, promised to go back and think about it, and added WeChat to the beautician to get out.
It wasn't until she watched the news in the past two days that she woke up and was glad that she didn't have an impulse, because injecting hyaluronic acid is far from being as simple as an injection.
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Returning to the above medical malpractice, hyaluronic acid injection into the blood vessel has a lot to do with the doctor's technical level and qualifications. If a doctor without medical qualifications performs hyaluronic acid injections, the risk of embolism is greatly increased. Even qualified doctors, if the technical level is immature, lack of clinical experience, lack of basic knowledge of facial anatomy, and inaccurate diagnosis before treatment, etc., it will cause the possibility of hyaluronic acid entering the blood vessels.
Therefore, when choosing medical cosmetology, we should keep in mind that regular institutions, regular doctors, and regular injections are indispensable, and we must not ignore the risks of surgery and adequate preparation before surgery because of the pursuit of beauty.
Editor|Liang Zhongming
Cover|Station Cool Hero PLUS