She made botox lips in her hairmaker, 30-year-old Pristina bad: The injection was filled with skunk

Laura, whose true identity is known for the revision of REL, says that a year ago she first did injections with bottos on her face, and then by thread.

Botox injections are designed to relax facial muscles with the aim of softening wrinkles. Starters fill lines in the face or add volume to certain parts, such as lips or pages.

Some days after I did the intervention, the injection started swelling and being filled with skunk. I've had to go to the hospital immediately, where I've been for a week”, Laura says.

It shows that facial interventions were made in a private administration.

The person who was involved in my face had nothing to do with the medical profession. He was a hairman. It's taken care of the eyebrows and, then, it's starting to apply these other”, according to Laure.

She says she has not been informed in advance of possible dangers, and that if she returned in time, she would not make such interference.

It's been many months, and I'm still dealing with the consequences of”, Laura says, not giving too much detail about what exactly was the cause of her health deterioration.

Most skin fillers contain a natural substance called hyaluronic acid, lasting between six and 18 months.

The trend of their use is on the rise not only in Kosovo, but elsewhere in the world.
The reasons, according to various media reports, range from “efforts to combat aging” to the desire to keep up with social networking personalities.

Who's intrusive with the bolts and the beginnings?

I'm not a doctor... but I deal with the bottos and fillers, why not”, the leader of an aesthetic centre in Pristina tells Radio Free Europe.

I come from a doctor's family and I'm doing school... I have practice and training done in Albania and Kosovo. I've never had a problem.”, she says, wanting to remain anonymous.

The material says it buys in Kosovo, while for prices at its centre it shows there are different 80 or 100 euros depending on the interventions that are made.

Moss that go to this center are not controlled.

Health professionals express concern because such interventions should, they say, only make competents such as superior surgery doctors, plastic surgery doctors, dermatologists or ophthalmologists.

Kosovo University Clinical Centre Director Mergim Loja, says that in recent years, the number of health complications such as “has increased the result of applications of various products on aesthetic issues on the face”.

Allergy, deformation of the location where botox, paralysis, eye age, and hematoms are just some of the reactions that appear.

Loja says these occur after aesthetic intervention on the face even causes the hair treatment “or others that have no knowledge of possible complications that can cause botox or thread, or the way they inject.

Moreover, it adds, in the market “there are various products”, which are unknown if approved by drug regulators.

“A large number of these treatments also apply to dentists, newly educated dentists. Are they right, I don't know”, says Loxha for Radio Free Europe.

Kosovo Stomatologists' Oda Chairman Blerim Kamberi says dentists have that right.

I'm only talking about the original region, specifically about lips. I mean, she's part of our specialization. All it takes is a professional course that organizes a certified company with certified experts... While the botox on the forehead or anywhere else does not belong to dentist”, he says.

Security Concerns

Social networks of aesthetics and private educational institutions are constantly promoted training in the face and for facial intervention and certificates by local and foreign doctors, but for the background of the latter, not much information is provided.

The REL itself has talked to a general doctor who confirms that it holds such training at a private college in Pristina.

Wanting to remain anonymous and not offer too much detail, she says training for bottos intervention and starters lasts only one day and that the person who follows it is either a doctor or not a medical doctor is equipped with a degree and pays a thousand euros.

For dermatologist Merita Kotor, who works at QKUK, this is a disturbing fact.

“A hairmaker or a very simple worker is likely to pay for a training, certificate, and say he received the certificate for both the botox and the thread... This issue has to be raised, because complications are many, not to say fatal”, says Kotor, who himself leads a private orientation in Pristina, where, for many years, the injections with box and thread apply.

In the Kosovo Agency for Products and Medical Equipment confirms to the REL that botox and initials are medical equipment, whose import is based on the Law on Products and Medical Equipment.

“Imports of medical products and equipment have all pharmaceutical components licensed”, the agency says.

But, in Kosovo Customs, also confirm for The REL that, in some cases, they've picked up quantities of botots and strands that certain people have attempted to smuggle illegally.

The chairman of the Kosovo Association of Plascular Reconstructive and Aesthetics, Ylber Zamenu, says the whole situation occurs in the absence of a regulation that would regulate the issue of aesthetic interventions with initial bolts.

“We have not yet seen from the ministry [of Health] readiness to make a task-force which we are willing to help establish the points of a regulation on this issue”, Zejnullah says.

From information that comes to us, these interventions are made by nonprofessional people, that is, people who are not doctors... The flaw of this is that, even if you want them to be followed [in particular], there is no legal basis”, he adds.

About two years ago, leaders of the clinics and associations of plastic surgeons, dermatologists and Maxilophacial doctors and ophthalmologists, in collaboration with the Kosovo Medical Association, have demanded that a article be introduced into the Law on Health, specifying who precisely should deal with the interventions of bolts and beginnings.

According to Oda of Doctors Pleat Sejdiu, this request has been rejected by the Ministry of Health.

The subx0>Puna in the draft law is being done within the Ministry of Health, but we have no information... According to the information we have, during these days or weeks, the draft law will be sent to the Assembly and then we will see...”, says Sejdiu.

The Kosovo Health Ministry did not concretely answer REL questions about the legal adjustment of the issue.

“Services for botox application and initials are services that were not previously pre-lawed”, the ministry said in its written response.

“Health Inspector has made inspections in health institutions that have provided these services. During these inspections, when faced with irregularities, so if they were not reported to the License and Accreditment Division, measures have been taken based on the legal provisions in power”, the Health Ministry also said.

The American Academy of Dermatology recommends against conducting these procedures in hair salons or nails to ensure the best results and also to protect health.

“There's been ugliness, ugliness and ugliness, and no one is responsible. It is good for those who decide on these interventions, to know where to address them, and where to report”, Sejdiu concludes from the Kosovo Medical Oda. / REL/