Botox Gone Wrong - Woman's Lips Swell Thrice The Normal Size After Getting Lip Fillers
29-year-old Rachael Knappier from Leicestershire had a lip-filler injection at a friend&rsquos house. Within hours of the injection her upper lip was swollen to thrice its original size. A beautician told her to put an ice pack on it and to take an antihistamine.
Getting botox doesn't always go the way you plan and 29-year-old Rachael Knappier from Leicestershire learnt that the hard way. She had a lip-filler injection at a friend¡¯s house.
After she received the injection, she shouted out in pain for which she was told that the pain was normal and happens with everybody. But the normal soon turned to tragedy.
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Within few hours of the injection, Rachel¡¯s lip started to swell and her upper lip was swollen to thrice its original size. She then talked to a beautician who told her to put an ice pack on it and to take an antihistamine.
Rachael Knappier¡¯s lips tripled in size after she got fillers from a beautician at a botox party.
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She¡¯s now warning others about the dangers of getting cosmetic treatments from non-medical professionals.
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But when her lip kept growing in size despite applying the ice pack, she immediately rushed to emergency at a hospital. The doctors then told her that National Health Service could not do anything as the lip fillers weren¡¯t covered by them.
After consulting a local aesthetic nurse, she then went to a professional clinic in London, where the doctors dissolved the filler. After 72 hours, her lips went back to the normal size.
It was then confirmed that the woman mistakenly injected the filler into an artery which caused her mouth to swell within hours, cutting off the blood supply to her lips.
Rachael told newspapers in the UK that she was left traumatised by the incident and she also started a petition calling for aesthetic medical treatments to only be performed by doctors, nurses, and dentists.
After Knappier's incident, BAAPS (British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons) has also responded to calls for stricter regulation on the matter.
