Recently, the singer Alejandra Guzmán underwent emergency surgery to remove polymers of his body, a problem he has had to deal with for just over 10 years, when he underwent a plastic surgery for buttock augmentation.
However, this type of synthetic material has caused negative reactions in your body, which is very common actually, since polymers, also known as biopolymers, are often harmful to healthand could even cause death.
What are polymers?
Inside of aesthetic medicinepolymers, also known as biopolymers, are synthetic substances derived from siliconenot absorbable in the body, which are often used as filler material to ‘mould’ some parts of the body.
The main parts of the body where these types of substances are usually injected are:
- Buttocks
- thighs
- calves
- Pies
- Old
- Arms
- Pectorals
- Face (lips and cheekbones)
What are the risks of injecting biopolymers?
It is necessary to highlight that, by the multiple side effects possessing this type of material, it has been deemed illegal use it when performing aesthetic procedures.
However, in some places polymers are still injected into patients because of how cheap they are, so poor surgery and material handling can be detrimental to the patient.
From the moment they are applied they are riskysince if the injection is carried out incorrectly and perforates a blood vessel, this silicone derivative can travel through the torrent, causing a pulmonary embolism, pneumonitis, damage to the pulmonary alveoli, kidney failure or brain embolismand even death.
After surgery, there is risk of local inflammation; if this does not happen, the side effects can arrive days, weeks, months and even years later.
Among the complications caused by injections of polymers into the body are:
- Migration of material to a different site in the body
- Changes in skin texture (irregularities)
- Material allergies
- Fibrosis
- Necrosis
- Pain in the area
- Affect organs surrounding the injection site
- patient death
exist operations to remove polymers of a person; nevertheless, can never be completely removed since, being a substance that is not absorbed in the body, it can ‘travel’ and stay in various places in the body, even those where the silicone injection was not made.