A fake specialist injects hyaluronic acid into her facial artery: the terrible testimony of Irina, disfigured and cloistered

Les actes illégaux à visée esthétique ont encore bondi en 2023. Sam Moghadam Khamseh

Selon Le Parisien, les actes illégaux à visée esthétique, comme les injections de botox pratiquées dans des arrière-cuisines sans le moindre diplôme, ont encore bondi en 2023.

Warning messages do nothing: illegal acts for aesthetic purposes, such as botox injections carried out in back kitchens without the slightest diploma, have increased again in 2023. C’ ;is what Le Parisien reveals, in an article published Friday March 22. 104 reports last year compared to 55 in 2020.

Our colleagues relate in particular the case of Irina, “mutilated by a fake doctor”. She wanted to fill in the wrinkles around her nose and mouth. The 39-year-old Parisian walked through the door of a beauty institute two years ago and a charlatan “ruined her face, her life, propelling her into the world unknown to illness, transplant and despair”. She had contacted the pseudo-specialist on Snapchat and believed in the dream she was being sold.

Except that his torturer injected him with hyaluronic acid into his facial artery. The one that brings blood to the lips, nose, eyelids… And that real aesthetic doctors know perfectly.

"A part of me is dead"

Result: a generalized infection for Irina, which causes gangrene in part of her face and exhausts her. Weeks in hospital, transplants, surgeries…hellip; Devastated, suffering from a series of anxiety attacks, Irina filed a complaint but barely leaves her one-bedroom apartment, in which she lives with the curtains closed, in the dark. She spends her time constantly taking photos of herself, obsessively, to try to recognize herself.“A part of me is dead”, she said to our colleagues.

If the business of hyaluronic acid injections is so flourishing, it is because the product remains available over the counter today on the internet and in pharmacies. In three clicks and for around sixty euros including delivery, Midi Libre was able to obtain around forty milliliters in 2022, at the same time. rsquo;opportunity for an investigation on this subject.

“There is no traceability on the products used, which may come from counterfeits or brands banned in France, already alerted Dr Adel Louafi. Our investigations have shown that injections are sometimes done in back kitchens, without changing the needle or respecting basic hygiene standards…” Irina learned this the hard way.