Accurately Recognizing OxyContin Cloaked in Hyaluronic Acid

September 22, 2013, CCTV 2 sets of the “first time” once again exposed the chaos of the cosmetic market, and this time the protagonist is in 2006 has been the State Food and Drug Administration sentenced to “death” of OxyContin. According to the regulations, the State Food and Drug Administration revoked the medical device registration certificate of OxyContin, and completely stopped its production, sale and use. However, from 2006 to the present, although Omedin has been removed by the FDA, but some beauty organizations are blatantly using it, and the number of patients who have been tortured and disturbed by Omedin is also unabated. In 2001, Ms. Ai, then a 28-year-old Wuhan resident, had her breasts sagging due to post-partum breastfeeding, and borrowed more than 10,000 yuan without her husband’s knowledge to inject OxyContin in a beauty institute. Four years after the injection, she felt discomfort in her breasts and underwent a surgery to remove the injection in a private plastic surgery hospital. She then found that her right nipple was ulcerated and was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer at Hubei Cancer Hospital. At the end of September 2002, Ms. Zhang had her temples sealed with OMT at Fuhua Hospital. Before the surgery, the doctor assured her that the surgery was absolutely safe, but only a few days after the surgery, the gel injected into her face began to shift. Soon, her entire face was covered with tofu dregs-like protrusions and was accompanied by constant pain. Ms. Zhang went to the hospital for two removal surgeries, but she was later told that some of the residual parts could no longer be removed because the OxyContin had been mixed with human tissue. In 2006, a girl named Xiao Xue was injected with OMT in a beauty salon in order to have a nose job, she immediately lost her right eye, her whole nose swelled up and turned into a pig’s liver color, and the injected material had flowed into her brain, and now her body is in pain all day long. Cases such as the above abound. According to incomplete statistics, from the entry of OxyMedin into China to date, there have been 300,000 beauty seekers have been injected with the material, and in the injection of a few years later, more or less tortured by the pain of the disease. So, what exactly is this once popular, but now appalling, medical plastic material, OxyContin? The past and present life of Omadin Omadin originated in the 1990s, its predecessor was introduced from Ukraine in 1997, a kind of product called Ingenieur Farrer, the composition of polyacrylamide hydrogel, is a kind of colorless and transparent jelly-like liquid substance. 1999 after China’s State Food and Drug Administration to monitor the authentication and approval of the production of non-toxic, environmentally friendly, low rejection of new artificial fat into use. 2000 formally put into mass production, and now the new artificial fat is used in the production of medical plastic materials. In 2000, it was formally put into mass production, and has been used on a large scale in the medical cosmetic industry, with applications ranging from simple nose jobs and temple sealing to breast augmentation, buttock augmentation, and various soft-tissue depression fillers. As a liquid injection material, Omertine has the powerful effect of quick and obvious effect, and is accepted by many private hospitals because of its simple operation and high profit. Therefore, Oxymetin became the best material for breast augmentation, which was popular all over the country for a while. However, a few years later, all the women who have had breast augmentation surgery with OxyMedin have shown symptoms such as breast inflammation, infection, deformation, hard lumps and pain, and even a few cases of cancerous changes and removal of breasts. For a while, OxyContin has become a synonym for “pain”, and people talk about it. Originally, the chemical name of Omadin is called: medical polyacrylamide hydrogel, commonly known as “artificial fat”. Polyacrylamide hydrogel is a chemical compound, its compounds are non-toxic, but the monomers that make it up are highly toxic, and once injected into the human body, there is a possibility of decomposition and toxicity. Once decomposed into highly toxic monomer molecules in the human body, it can poison the nervous system, damage the kidneys, and even cause harm to the circulatory system of life, and the World Health Organization has listed this substance as one of the suspected carcinogens Oxybutynin, as an artificial fat filler, is most dangerous because it can infiltrate into the body’s own tissue mechanism, which can lead to infections and difficulties in peeling. According to the information of Beijing Science and Technology News, when injected into the human body, Omadin is in the form of gel, which spreads along the tissue gap by infiltration with body activities and muscle contraction in the body, and wanders to other parts of the body, leading to breast deformation. In some patients, this substance even traveled to the abdomen, waist and back. Not only that, after entering the human body, OxyContin comes into contact with breast glands and pectoralis major muscle and mixes with the body’s own tissues, stimulating the body’s fibrous tissue to proliferate, thus forming an inflammatory envelope around the injected material. If this envelope is very thick, the breast will be hard. And if the pectoralis major muscle once eroded by OxyContin, the cells in the muscle fibers, after being stimulated by the injection for a long period of time, degenerate, and the reddish muscle fibers themselves will become yellowish-white, and after a long period of time, the muscle will be corroded, and even rotted. According to the data of the National Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center, from 2002 to November 2005, they received 183 adverse event monitoring reports related to injectable polyacrylamide hydrogel, including 161 cases of breast augmentation. The manifestations of adverse events include: inflammation, infection, hard nodules, lumps, hardness, deformation, displacement, and residue. It is also reported in the United Daily News that according to the information of the Hong Kong Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, at least 53 women in Hong Kong have experienced pain and deformation after breast augmentation by injection of polyacrylamide hydrogel in the past two years, and at least six of them had to undergo mastectomy eventually because of the adverse reactions. At least six of them eventually had to have their breasts removed due to adverse reactions. About 90% of these women received the injections in Mainland China. However, a beauty seeker who had used OxyContin for breast augmentation told the reporter that the most painful part was not the implementation of plastic surgery, but the removal of OxyContin fillers. Oxymedicine removal, like a needle in a haystack Although Oxymedicine was sentenced to “death” by the Food and Drug Administration in 2006, those plastic surgery institutions that do not have the qualification of medical cosmetology are still using Oxymedicine to make an article, and this time, they put out the banner is: “100% out, safe, fast, no worries”. The first time, they are still using OMED to make an article. Many plastic surgery organizations also advertise that they can remove the OxyContin from the breasts at one time, and at the same time, they can replace the breast implants according to the size of the breasts after the removal, solving all the problems at one time. Those painful and desperate patients seem to see a new hope, so they accepted the so-called one-time OxyContin removal surgery without thinking. However, the result is unimaginable secondary damage. It is understood that there are many methods of removing OxyContin, of which incision is a more effective and safe method of removal. Incision surgery using general anesthesia, take the incision to take out the way, the incision in the lower edge of the areola, if necessary, there is also the possibility of making an incision in the armpit. The surgical process should be repeatedly probed, purged, rinsed OxyContin residues. After the surgery, the incision is closed layer by layer, and pressure bandage is applied. Generally before the surgery, the doctor will carry out a meticulous health examination of the aesthetic, using CT, B ultrasound or nuclear magnetic examination to determine the distribution of OxyContin, and the implantation dose. At the same time, it can also exclude all kinds of hidden diseases, to ensure the safety and stability of the surgical process. However, it is impossible to remove 100% of the OxyContin at one time, as many medical institutions advertise. Han Yan, director of Beijing 301 Hospital, once told the reporter of China Medical Beauty that the procedure of removing OxyContin is much more complicated than the original injection surgery. Injecting OxyContin into the body is like dropping meat into the sand, it is impossible to remove it completely. Because injected into the body of the omertine after a long time has penetrated into the tissue gap, and because most patients before the injection of omertine in some irregular clinics or beauty salons, many doctors do not know how to inject, in the patient’s body, especially in the chest injection of omertine is very dispersed after a long time diffusion, part of the tissues have been fused with the tissue, it is difficult to take completely clean. It is understood that the human chest structure from the outside to the inside are the skin layer, fat layer, mammary gland layer, pectoralis major muscle layer, pectoralis minor muscle layer. Breast augmentation injections are generally required to be injected between the mammary glands and the pectoralis major muscle. When removed, the removal rate is relatively high if the injection is well layered. However, in many cases, unqualified doctors inject the Oxymetin into the muscle, or even into the mammary gland; in this way, the Oxymetin will be mixed with the human body tissues, and it can only be removed together with the human body tissues. In addition, some medical institutions without formal qualifications do not have aseptic environment, so it is easy to cause infection and inflammation when doing OxyContin removal surgery, causing secondary damage to consumers. In response to the advertisements of many medical institutions that can be placed directly after the removal of Oxytetracycline prosthesis, many experts also said that it is not desirable. Experts said that the OxyContin removal surgery more or less will damage the human body’s tissues, and the injured tissues need time to repair. What’s more, in most cases, it is impossible to remove the OxyContin completely, and if other prosthesis is put in at this time, it will inevitably cause complications, which will cause more trouble to the body of the candidate. Therefore, experts suggest that when undergoing Oxytocin removal surgery, one must choose a regular hospital rather than a beauty salon. In addition, it is best to consider whether to re-implant the prosthesis after half a year after the removal of the OxyContin, after a review, and when the physical condition of the candidate allows it. Oxymethadine in the guise of hyaluronic acid The after-effects of Oxymethadine have become another major public health incident since the AIDS infection through blood transfusion in the mid-to-late 1990’s. After 2006, I believe that no one dared to ask for Oxymethadine injections on their own initiative. However, some unscrupulous merchants, in order to seek high profits, have actually engaged in the despicable act of “hanging sheep’s heads to sell dog meat” and deceiving consumers. According to a CCTV report, in 2012, Ms. Wang from Shandong underwent rhinoplasty in a local beauty parlor. After the operation, she did not expect her nose to become hard, red and swollen, with pus flowing from time to time. After she came to the regular hospital for checkup, she was told that the material used in her rhinoplasty was not hyaluronic acid, but actually omethadine, which has long been banned. China Association of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery private branch of the expert judgment that Ms. Wang rhinoplasty surgery is used in the Oxymethadine, Oxymethadine infection, so that the tissue is very dense, hard, the formation of a scar contracture, the scar pulling the nose occurred serious deformation. In the subsequent report, the reporter found a number of facial or chest infection, lesions of the applicant, obviously asked for hyaluronic acid, but was injected into the body are all OxyContin. So what is hyaluronic acid? It is understood that hyaluronic acid, scientifically known as hyaluronic acid, is a straight-chain polymer polysaccharide composed of disaccharide units, and is a naturally occurring substance in tissues. Hyaluronic acid is widely found in the connective tissues of vertebrates, mucus tissues, the lens of the eye and the membrane of certain bacteria. It plays an important role as a matrix in the dermis layer of human skin, and it has a very important function in the overall maintenance of the tissue structure or the transportation between cells. As hyaluronic acid has a strong water locking function, so can keep the skin full, young and elastic, but with the growth of age, hyaluronic acid loss faster than the growth rate, the skin will gradually become lack of moisture, loss of luster and elasticity, and in the long run will appear wrinkles and other aging phenomena. Therefore, with the rapid development of science and technology, people extracted hyaluronic acid liquid, for the aging parts of the body can be injected to achieve the purpose of wrinkle. Hyaluronic acid has also become a hot injection material in the plastic surgery industry. However, the price of hyaluronic acid 3000 to 6000 yuan per milliliter, so that some unscrupulous businessmen feel unprofitable, so they are behind the scenes to do the trick of stealing, that is, the OxyContin and hyaluronic acid mixed with. According to an employee who used to work in a beauty salon, this is how they mix and sell. According to her, “For those consumers who understand the difference between hyaluronic acid and OxyContin very well, we will use real hyaluronic acid. For those consumers who only have a vague idea, we are half hyaluronic acid and half omadine mixed injection. And for those consumers who don’t understand at all, we inject them with all Omadin.” When the reporter asked, not afraid of consumers after the problem to find it, the staff said very calmly: “the accident is also a few years later, who can say what in the end because of what, we put the responsibility of a push on the end.” Beauty agency staff so lightly described, let a person shocked and angry. So, as ordinary consumers we should be in the end how to distinguish between Oxymoron and hyaluronic acid? According to Beijing Donggong Plastic Surgery and Beauty Clinic President Gao Mou, before the injection, consumers should first look at the packaging, many counterfeit hyaluronic acid packaging is very irregular, there are Italian production, there are French production, origin of a variety of origins, in fact, by the Chinese approval of hyaluronic acid there are only two kinds of hyaluronic acid, one is Sweden’s production of Ruilan, the other is the domestic Runbayan, if the consumer is unsure of the packaging to identify the words, there are also A way, is to log on the State Food and Drug Administration website, query the product approval number, through the formal channels of the introduction of hyaluronic acid, there are records on the website, a check will know. Secondly, look at the solvent sample, the molecular weight of hyaluronic acid is very small, is water-based, rubbing the feeling is very delicate, rub a few times slowly become clean and disappear. But OxyContin is obviously large particles, jelly-like, it is difficult to quickly disappear after solidification. In addition, in addition to OxyContin, some illegal medical plastic surgery institutions on the market will be mixed with hyaluronic acid bone powder, silicone oil and other prohibited materials, and low prices to meet the low spending power of the applicants. President Gao said: “In fact, if you want to avoid being cheated by illegal businesses and thus bring psychological and physical harm, the simplest way is to go to the regular medical beauty institutions, such as large-scale tertiary hospitals or private plastic surgery medical institutions with formal qualifications, and it is best not to go to some beauty parlors or even small clinics that are opened in residential buildings for the sake of cheapness. ” According to the “medical beauty project grading management catalog” can be seen, injection wrinkle belongs to the medical beauty project, and life beauty salon is not qualified for injection. And on the injection of beauty, doctors also need to undergo rigorous training, because the injection of different materials determines the depth of the injection site is different, if the injection of the location of the depth of the reversal, it will certainly be in the human body local tissues appear abnormal reaction. Therefore, cosmetic injections are by no means like what consumers understand, as long as they can push the syringe, they can perform injections. Therefore, before consumers undergo cosmetic surgery, they must have a thorough understanding of the procedure they are going to do, and if they do not go to a tertiary hospital, but a private medical cosmetic organization, then they must make sure that they have qualified medical qualifications. After all, once the surgery fails, no amount of money can make up for the psychological and physical pain of the consumer.