By Li Likui
November 20, 2012 - 10:11am http://www.chinadailyapac.com
Five of the 10 most commonly used medical beauty treatments are without scientific support and, at the same time, impose high risk on patients, resulting in skin inflammation or even death, said the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Hong Kong on Monday.
Those five no-fact-based treatments include three types of whitening injections, platelet rich plasma (PRP) — which claims to be able to revitalize skin and reduce wrinkles, and phosphatidylcholine — which is promoted as effective in helping people to lose weight and stay slim, a survey by the society revealed.
The city was shocked after a woman died and three others suffered serious side effects after a beauty treatment administered by a beauty salon — DR Medical Beauty Group — in Causeway Bay in October.
“The public are laymen, and they trust the doctors. One of the tactics used by beauty centers is that they claim that their treatments are carried out by registered doctors, so as to assure the customers, especially after the DR’s accident,” said William Chui Chun-ming, president of the hospital pharmacists’ society. “However, being carried out by registered doctors doesn’t guarantee the safety of the treatment, even when the doctors are specialists.”
Chui said beauty centers exaggerate and even fabricate the effect of the beauty treatments, even for those with authentication from US Food and Drug Administration.
Take the PRP treatment as an example, the treatment involves a similar procedure, as the one taken in the DR accident, of drawing the blood from the consumers and concentrating the platelets before injecting the blood back into the patient’s body.
It is notable that the platelet is only used to stop the patient from bleeding after major surgery. Chui went on that there is a high risk to take PRP, because the procedures need to be taken in a bacteria-free environment, or it will result in sepsis, which claimed the life of a woman in DR’s accident.
Even after last month’s fatal mishap, the society found that six of the 15 centers it surveyed still provide such services.
Chui also pointed out that some beauty centers tend to use some “fancy and complicated” procedures as a way of adding to charges. But these procedures not only are unnecessary but also pose high risks.
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