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Botox injections 'can poison your body'

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Anti-wrinkle drug Botox can spread into other areas of the body, putting patients' health at risk, new research suggests.

Botox has become one of the fastest-growing and popular cosmetic treatments and is also employed for a variety of conditions such as migraines, muscle spasms in children and cerebral palsy.

However, scientists in Canada are concerned that the drug - made from a toxin produced by the deadly germ, bacterium clostridium botilinum - does not remain in the muscle it is intended for and can spread into other areas of the body.

Researchers at the University of Calgary discovered, after experimenting on cats, that the toxin in Botox did not just affect the muscle it was injected into.

Leading researcher Dr Herzog said: 'What we found was that the toxin passed easily into the surrounding muscles and weakened all the muscles in the area.'

The American Food and Drink Administration is now planning a safety review into the drug.

Botox was first licensed for cosmetic use in 2002 to block nerve signals and cause paralysis to smooth out wrinkles on the face.

However, the secretary of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Rajiv Grover, said the doses used cosmetically are 50 to 60 times less than those used to treat some medical conditions.

'Along with my colleagues I've treated thousands of patients,' said Grover, 'And if we saw a lot of diffusion to other muscles of the face we would see a lot of complications, which we certainly do not.'

Tuesday 11 March 2008

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