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Botox can get into your brain.  Literally.  Researchers from Pisa, Italy have been injecting rats with Botulinum Toxin Type A and watching what happens.These findings were extemely surprising. 

 Botox blocks the release of neurotransmitters from precise nerves.  When it is injected into the skin, it is taken up by the nerves, and over time stops the release of neurotransmitters, shutting down those nerves. 

 In dermatology, we use botox to shut off the nerves that workmuscles in your face, like your forehead and brow.  With those nerves off, you cannot contract the muscles, so they stay flat.Very much like your having wrinkles pants.  While you are upright, the pants hang loosely and are smooth.  When you sit, your thighs and hips crinkle 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 rats followed the nerves back to the rat’s brain, shutting offnerves there. 

 What does this mean? 

 This is a critical question.  The study was focused in rats, not people.  We don’t know if it might do the same thing in humans even if some Botulinum Toxin Type A did get into the brain, there is not any evidence at all that it has any meaningful effect, bad.  As an example, we know that smoking kills brain cells and stops other cells from developing.  Does that mean that smokers or ex-smokers have any suggestive brain effects from their habit? 

 Botox is a wonderful 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 capability to be misused and even abused.  Botox has been used safely in thousands of people, but there are risks.  It’s also expensive and its effects are temporary, so botox isn’t for everyone. 

 If you are not ok with assuming hazards of botox, or your budget doesn’t make allowance for it, then consider this effective alternative : employ a night cream that contains Tazorac or ROC.  No facial cream is better at reducing fine lines than tretinoin. 

 Use an ice pack to help stop swelling and bruising at the injection sites.  Putting an Ice Pack on your face before and after the procedure can be helpful in this regard.  Your doctor should have icepacks available for you to use. 

 Plan to return on a consistent basis.  Most Botox injections last at least 3 months and some last so long as a year.  There’ll be a point , at which the toxin wears off and you’ll have to have the process repeated in order to maintain results.

 If you recently had botox and look in the mirror one morning and think that you’re 10 years younger, don’t worry, it’s not brain damage, it’s just your face on botox. 

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