The Danger of Injections, Infusion Whitening | News

Although this life-threatening method of skin whitening is prohibited, many skin-whitening spas in Ho Chi Minh City still operate slowly.

On September 22, while browsing the beauty group associations on Facebook, PV Thanh Nien easily set up a same-day white infusion consultation program with the account holder named NP. Trung, Ward 11, Go Vap District) for direct consultation. The townhouse is for rent selling clothes, the upper floors are both accommodation, beauty spa, and there are no signs.

Get to Know Us, NP Spa Owner Offers: “There are 3 popular types of white infusions on the market, coming from Japan, Korea and Europe (which is usually Switzerland). White transmission to Korea costs 1.8 million VND per hour, to Japan 2.5 million per hour and to Europe more than 10 million VND per hour ”. The owner recommended us to use Japanese white infusion because it helps to whiten quickly and safely (!?). After that, the owner showed us pictures on the doctor’s phone (BS) making a white infusion and a dose of Japanese white infusion. According to the introduction, a Japanese white infusion set consists of 7 medicine bottles, it will be mixed with sea water and infused into a vein in the hands of the host. This person promised, after 3 to 5 infusions, a week apart, the brunettes will turn white and pink and added: “If you want to be as white as the model, you will pass a series (10 infusions), equivalent to 25 million dong ”. “Except for people with liver disease and asthma, everyone can receive white infusion because this drug is benign, without anaphylaxis (!?)”, The owner declared and assured: the white infusion process lasts around 20 minutes and there will be a doctor in the cosmetic hospital in District 3 to act to ensure safety, in addition, no further testing is necessary. “You don’t need a blood test or anything. The doctor only needs to ask, with his experience, to know if the client is suitable for the drug or not. The place where the doctor worked was also the place where I was a trainee in the past, then when I got home I opened my own spa, so I linked up with that party. I provide medicine, the hospital provides doctors, so guests can be sure of the quality, ”said the spa owner.

According to Dr. Do Quang Hung, Secretary General of HCM City Aesthetic Association, the method of beauty injections, whitening infusion is “a hoax”, “a bad way”, contraindications and even the hospital they are not. because it is not on the technical list of the Ministry of Health. Not even Europe. There was a case of hospitalization at Cho Ray Hospital for shock after injecting bleaching agents, manifesting difficulty in breathing, fatigue … similar to drug shock caused by high doses of vitamin C.

It will make fine spa and cosmetic establishments that perform injections, whitening infusion On September 25, speaking with PV Thanh Nien, the head of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Office, he said that the Ministry of Health has yet to grant anyone to perform whitening injection and infusion techniques. The Ministry of Health has not issued any medicine known as bleach. If the drug can be allowed by foreign countries but Vietnam has not issued a registration number, it is wrong to buy and use it. Regarding the treatment of the spa facilities, the aesthetics of the beauty of the skin, but the performance of whitening injections will be penalized based on the offense, such as practicing without permission, practicing beyond the permitted function, using. drugs have not received registration numbers … Leaders of the Health Department Office have asked PV Thanh Nien to provide information for immediate verification by the Department and districts. The inspector of the Department of Health said that they are intensifying the treatment of spa facilities, beauty salons that are operating in medical examination and treatment without permission; and illegal bleaching injections and infusions are also one of the behaviors handled by the Department’s inspection. Duy tinh

And Dr. Tran Nguyen Anh Tu, Deputy Director of the Skin Aesthetics Department at Ho Chi Minh City Dermatological Hospital, said: “In the world there have been many reports of injections and infusions of whitening drugs causing shocking reactions. protection, pulmonary embolism affects lives. Patients also have risks from injections and transmission, such as infections, hepatitis B, C, and HIV. In addition, because the whitening effect is only temporary, so if you want to maintain the injection, the long-term infusion carries the risk of accumulating toxic damage in internal organs such as liver, kidney, thyroid … Meanwhile, whitening it also causes the skin to lose its natural melanin layer that protects the skin from the harmful effects of sunlight, increasing the risk of some sun-induced dermatitis and skin cancer. That is why many countries (USA, Philippines …) have banned skin whitening injections and infusions, considering this activity illegal.

According to Dr. Anh Tu, whitening products currently contain active ingredients such as corticosteroids, hydroquinone, mercury, organic acids (found in topical products, peels, whitening baths), glutathione, vitamins (in product, oral infusion, white) It interferes with the pigmentation process, so it has a temporary whitening effect. Therefore, the more products that have a whitening effect, the more likely it is to affect health. The doctor should prescribe and advise the introduction of the above active ingredients into the body, especially total body sugar.