Ms. Q. was told that betel leaves are covered by an acquaintance that does not treat melasma very effectively, so buy betel leaves or not then put them in a blender to puree it to apply on her face.

She read according to the instructions that people said the burning heat was peeling, freckles, so Ms. Q, persevered. Feeling lighter skin, Mrs. Q. thinks I used it correctly. However, after a few months, the red face went away but turned patchy with a lot of black and white areas.

Or another patient named BTV, (40 years old, from Ha Nam) also went to the Central Dermatology Hospital to examine the patient for lesions with pigmentation and bilateral hyperpigmentation. This patient suffered from cheeks and did not use betel leaves on his face. After a few months of applying, the cheeks were worse, so the patient came to the hospital for examination.

The image of the face is patchy because betel leaves are not.

According to this patient, she received instructions on how to make betel nut not to beautify her face. Buy betel leaves, grind to get the essence and then boil them into glue. Then take the mixture as high and apply to the face 2 times a week.

After a while, the skin lightens up, but 3 or 4 months later, the white rash appears. As a result, Ms. N. and her friend both suffered from increased and decreased pigmentation because of sharing the beauty secrets from betel.

Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Diep, Hanoi Dermatology Hospital also said that the hospital regularly receives patients injured by using betel not to make beauty.

According to Dr. Diep, skin damage after betel leaf application is not divided into 3 phases.

Stage 1 is the quick bleaching phase. Stage 2 is an obvious hyperpigmentation. Stage 3 is hyperpigmentation.

After 2 weeks – 4 weeks after applying betel leaves, patients see a bright, fast and beautiful effect.

Many patients feel excited because they see a good and safe effect because completely extracted from natural leaves, the more diligent you apply and apply the thicker, the more number with the hope that the skin is bright and bright, so you told your friends, People used to use and as a result suffered skin damage from each other.

Dr. Nguyen Van Tam – Central Dermatology Hospital, said that many patients come to the hospital for medical examination because of treating melasma with betel nut balm, not even friends tell each other about beauty and then go to the hospital together due to complications.

There are patients who buy betel extracts, not ready for use, and others buy them to make their own glue to apply their skin. According to BS Tam in betel leaves do not have phenolic compounds that work to whiten skin quickly. This group includes benzene, phenol, catechol, and hydroquinone. If used for a long time, the drug will completely lose the skin color, forming a dot-like depigmentation image on an hyperpigmentation background.

For patients with patchy betel leaves or not, treatment takes 1 year, but there are also cases that do not respond to treatment, so doctors have to implement much more aggressive treatment methods to get results. .

Dr. Tam said that in order to treat melasma, women need medical facilities specialized in dermatology so that doctors can find the cause of melasma, melasma, to provide treatment suitable for the condition of you do not have to tell each other to treat each other and then lead to unfortunate complications.

Recently, medical examination and treatment facilities have received many complications after cosmetic surgery for the eye area. At the National Hospital of Dermatology, a 29-year-old girl in Hanoi came to see her with a skewed eye, scarred and slanted eyes.

TS-BS. Nguyen Huu Quang, Deputy Head of Plastic Surgery and Rehabilitation Department, Central Dermatology Hospital, said that this patient performed eye opening technique at a newly opened salon that she happened to known through advertising on facebook.

After the surgery, the dream of big round eyes suddenly disappeared, instead this girl saw herself in the mirror and was alarmed by the scarring of the lower eyelid, the corner of the eye was in a skewed state.

Eye opening is intended to create accents for the eyes, but those inexperienced in opening the corner of the eye will make the eyelids turn upside down, and the slanted eyes cannot close the eyes. The widening of the eye angle is only a procedure but still needs to be done in medical facilities and because doctors must have expertise in plastic surgery, not in spas by staff. each other’s self-study and then implementation will risk causing complications-BS. Quang recommends.

Similarly, another case came to Ophthalmology Department, Military Central Hospital 108, in which the left eye was aching and the eyesight was severely reduced. The doctor diagnosed the patient with severe uveitis. During an ultrasound, doctors discovered a suspicious image of a small foreign object in the vitreous chamber.

Taking careful history, the patient said that he had previously implanted only the face and eyelids under the eyes at a beauty facility. During the course of treatment, doctors removed a segment of 4-0 catgut about 10 mm long. The patient’s eyes stopped stimulating, his vision recovered.

According to TS-BS. Hoang Thanh Tuan, Plastic Surgery-Aesthetic Center, National Burn Institute: The purpose of implantation is only on the face and lower lids to rejuvenate the skin. When only transplanted into the subcutaneous fat layer or the deep dermis will have the effect of proliferating fibroblasts, collagen helps to increase skin thickness and firm skin, fade shallow wrinkles, shrink pores.

At the same time, the transplanted skin will only become firmer, helping to lift structures under the skin to help a younger face. Implantation only stimulates vascular growth factors that increase metabolism, making the skin pink and radiant.

However, this may be because an operator other than a physician has inserted a thread (this should not be used in rejuvenation) through the sclera into the vitreous chamber. When the foreign body appears in the vitreous chamber, there will be an allergic reaction, the appearance of inflammatory cells in the iris, the eyelid, the chorum causing the intraocular infection – total uveitis.

The release of many inflammatory cells in the vitreous causes opaque to the transparent environment of the eye that the patient will see blurred vision. Inflammatory cells, chemical mediators will stimulate the V-nerve in the eye area, causing pain very uncomfortable for the patient.

The woman fell into a condition that her eyes were always backward, unable to close after eyelid surgery (TL photo)

At the same time, the inflammatory process to create fibrin, blocking the anterior chamber or the iris sticking to the front of the vitreous body, obstructing the circulation of the aqueous humor, causing glaucoma, causing pain for the patient. If not handled in time, it will damage the optic nerve causing blindness.

Therefore, to avoid unfortunate accidents that can occur in the process of transplanting the special eye area around the eyes to rejuvenate, women need to choose reputable establishments, use only high quality products that are certified. by safety quality accreditation organizations-BS. Hoang Thanh Tuan recommended.

Before that, a woman over 50 years old in Binh Duong, after having her eyelid cut off and being “corrected” by the cosmetic facility by patching, her eyes became deformed, even in a state of rolled up, exposing the lower eyelid mucosa, making the eyes always in a state of redness, burning.

TS-BS. Nguyen Phan Tu Dung (working at a cosmetic hospital in Ho Chi Minh City) shared that the patient came to the examination in the state that the eyelid was operated again and again, the lower eyelid was patched up like tire patch. After surgery, the patient’s eye was increasingly exposed due to the lower eyelid being pulled down, this facility cut the corner of the inner eye to close the eyelid but failed.

In addition, the patient is placed by this facility threaded from the forehead running down the nose to pull the eye skin up. After more than a year of surgery, this part is still intact, causing the patient’s forehead to appear a large triangular scar like a knife cut.

In this case, the treatment is difficult because the eye has been patched up too many times, the scars are located inside. To treat, doctors will first treat the front eye roll to reduce inflammation in the patient by lifting the muscles of the outer cheekbones and closing the angle of the inner eyelid cartilage muscle. After that, patients need a minimum of 6 months to 1 year to recover before entering other cosmetic surgeries.

The eyes are not only “windows to the soul” but in the old saying “rich with two eyes”. Therefore, when wishing to beautify, everyone should be alert when choosing cosmetic facilities, avoiding money lost, handicapped because the technology of re-surgery of the eye after complications is relatively difficult and complicated. Depending on the person’s location and how the eye condition needs to be improved, the doctor will prescribe when it is appropriate to re-operate.