These foreign materials are not meant to be freely floating in the body. The patient’s immune system becomes comprised because the majority of the immune cells are being occupied fighting the foreign material in the buttocks.
Common symptoms are pain, burning, itching and swelling in the injection area, or skin changes. Patients can experience skin hardening because the pressure and scar tissue in the area (caused by the immune system’s response) impair the blood supply to the skin. As a result of the loss of blood supply, the skin tissue can start to die.
Even if women don’t experience health problems right away, they may have problems later. Mir said he’s treated women who had symptoms 15 to 20 years after their injections.
Very few U.S. plastic surgeons will treat patients who’ve had illegal silicone buttocks injections, one retired Las Vegas surgeon said. Many doctors are not familiar with the disease physiology, or they don’t want to take on a patient who has complications from something done by another practitioner.
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