WARNING ABOUT THE HAZARDS OF BOTOX MATCHES

The Private Health Clinics of Scotland has issued a warning about the dangers of the so -called Botox parties.

The improvement of medical care (HIS) is concerned about treatment in organized parts with unregulated suppliers, such as the Stertician, where alcohol is consumed.

The regulator says that cosmetic treatments such as Botox, dermal fillings and slimming blows should only be administered by recognized health professionals.

All private clinics, hospitals and hospices where health professionals provide services are legally obliged to register at yours.

Eddie Docherty, director of guarantee and regulation of quality in His, said: “Having a cosmetic treatment is a serious company that should only be held with due consideration of the very real risks for the health and safety of an individual.

“Gathering Botox injection, alcohol and a party atmosphere reduces people’s judgment, and their ability to provide consent properly and consider real risks.

“No clinic regulated by us, and administered by a health professional, would be allowed to manage Botox parts as an appropriate environment to provide such treatment.”

Docherty said that only trained and experienced health professionals should administer Botox, acquired through a registered pharmacist.

He added: “People should always verify that a clinic is registered with theirs before performing treatments.”

Jackie Partridge, clinical director of the Dermal Clinic in Edinburgh, told BBC Radio’s Good morning Scotland program that such parties were “very, very dangerous”

She said that dermal fillings were more dangerous than Botox, since they can block the skin supply to the skin and cause “skin death.”

She said: “If that happened in a medical clinic, there is another prescribed medication that can be used to dissolve the dermal filling to get out of that dangerous scenario,” he said.

“That will not be at the hands of someone who is not medically qualified.”

She said that the General Medical Council (GMC) had prohibited remote prescription, where a doctor prescribes a non -doctor, who will be administered to another person and was expected that the Nursing and Midwifray Council (NMC) does the same.

She said: “It is very frustrating when there is a double standard between someone like us and others who are registered against versus someone who has done a course of a few hours and could have been a taxi driver, plumber or aestheticist

“Then they begin to stab the public with something that is a very powerful and only prescribed medication.”

Mrs. Partridge added that those in the industry were “desperately looking for a stricter regulation.”

She added: “If you go to a domestic environment, cleaning standards will not be there, there will be infections control risks, there will be very limited patient safety.

“It is very important that people investigate before carrying out a procedure.”

A Scottish government Consultation on stricter regulation Closed on February 14 with the expected results at the end of June.