Beware of Illegal Injectable Silicon Could Lead to Death

the variety of ways people do to beautify the body, but sometimes the means used are not safe. Experts advise to avoid illegal silicone injections because it can cause death.

One case happened to a woman (30 years) who entered the emergency room at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit due to run out of breath and coughing up blood. Having analyzed the doctor know that this woman had received an injection of liquid silicone is illegal to lift the buttocks and various other body parts.



Silicon is not illegal medical silion commonly used or contained in the implant, but the kind of silicon that are sold at hardware stores like Home Depot.

Fat solvent used to make these silicone can flow into the lungs and block the airways thus causing 'silicone embolism syndrome' or clotting in small vessels of the lungs.

"There are two types of side effects can occur, namely the side effects that attacks the lungs and brain. If it attacks the lungs then the death rate of about 20 percent, while if the brain then the death rate of 100 percent," said Dr. Angel Coz, specialist eprawatan pulmonary and critical, as quoted from HealthDay, Tuesday (25/10/2011).

This syndrome is relatively rare and was first discovered in the male transsexual who want to increase the size of her breasts in the 1970s. Luckily, this woman was attacked silicon on the lungs so it can be rescued after he was given steroids.

Meanwhile, the president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Dr. Malcolm Z Roth said that generally this involves injecting a high volume to fill the face, lips, cheekbones, chin or breast. And often non-sterile injections for buttocks.

"Prohibited procedure is increased, because many people who do not have enough money to go to a plastic surgeon who already has a license, even though they know that kadnag who inject are not doctors," says Dr. Roth.

Several cases of illegal silicone encountered one of them were women (22 years) in the emergency room at UCLA Medical Center who experienced shortness of breath and develop into the right ventricle of heart failure so that the patient died.

"If you perform this procedure at Develop a hotel room, living at home or in the garage then the procedure was illegal. To that patients need to track down and check licenses and backgrounds of people who would inject silicon," said Dr. Coz.