The National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) is alarmed by the injections of hyaluronic acid carried out illegally by people not authorized to practice aesthetic medicine.
- Since the beginning of 2022, the ANSM has received around forty reports of adverse effects following injections of hyaluronic acid.
- Their use is regulated and reserved for doctors.
Practices “dangerous” and “prohibited” : in a communicated, the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) is sounding the alarm against injections of hyaluronic acids carried out by non-doctors. Non-compliant practices (poorly performed injections, non-compliance with hygiene rules, etc.) which lead to an increasing number of problems.
Necrosis and blindness
Hyaluronic acid is a gel used in particular by aesthetic doctors to reduce wrinkles in patients. An act of aesthetic medicine that can quickly degenerate.
The most common side effects can range from a “local infection of the area where the product was injected, which can become generalized if the localized infection is not treated quickly, to viral (including HIV) or bacterial contamination if the equipment used is shared“, details theANSM.
In addition, if the product is injected into a blood vessel, this can cause necrosis which can lead to tissue amputation or even loss of sight (blindness) in the case of a blood vessel. which irrigates the eye, indicates the health institution.
Complications can also be caused by the dubious quality of the acid used, the agency recalling that it is essential to be able to ensure the traceability of the product.
An ordeal after injections in the buttocks
At the start of the year, AFP collected a series of testimonies from patients who had suffered the disastrous consequences of poorly performed procedures, such as local abscesses or generalized infections. Two influencers and reality TV candidates who had hyaluronic acid injections in the buttocks also had told Brut about the ordeal that she had been living ever since.