Saturday, March 22, 2008

Lifestyles Ideas Management - Slimmer, Younger and Fair-skinned

Aesthetic medicine that aims to help people fix their flaws or discontented with your looks or imaginative flaws – sagging skin, wrinkles and many more that ladies could think of. I heard about a young girl no more than twenty years of age, she started with aesthetic medicine on looking more youthful. I believe it is more of a psychological problem of poor self-esteem and inferiority complex. Her mum makes it worse by encouraging her for such treatment. These people are forking many hundreds of dollars just to make them look beautiful, if being beautiful is all that is to life, it is a sad thing.

The authorities have identified several treatments patients are to be careful about. Patients must seek doctor for evidence on treatments work and check if there are side effects if any. There are hosts of unproven beauty treatments offered by doctors from drug cocktails to dissolve fats to anti-ageing hormone injections. Doctors who sell snake oil pose a greater danger than a lay person who sell snake oil, people trust doctors more.
Some of these treatments are not supported by medical evidence and this warning is necessary as more local doctors are into lucrative beauty treatments. Six out of 10 doctors are now in aesthetic procedures, though these doctors are general practitioners. Specialists in fields such as anesthesia, gynecology and even renal medicine are grabbing a share of the multimillion dollar market. Some doctors are making over million dollars a year from these procedures.

Dubious remedies
Fat reduction
Mesotherapy
A drug cocktail is injected into the skin and claim that it dissolved fat.
Carboxytherapy
A non-surgical procedure similar to mesotherapy. Carbon dioxide is shot through a tiny needle to “kill” fat cells and stimulate blood flow.

Skin treatments
Micro needling derma roller
This device uses a series of pins on a hand-held roller to make microscopic punctures in the skin which supposedly encourage new collagen to form and reduce scars and wrinkles.
Skin whitening injections
These jabs are aimed at reducing blemishes such as acne, scars, wrinkles and chicken pox marks.
Growth hormone treatments
Treatment replace testosterone via injections or creams applied to the skin. Human growth hormones are then delivered through micro-injections.

Miscellaneous
Vacustyler
A patient’s lower body is place in a chamber. A machine then stimulates the lymphatic system. Advocates claim that it improves circulation in the lower body.
Colonic cleansing for “detoxification”
Treatment involves flushing the colon by shooting water through the rectum. Advocates claim it reduces food intolerance, improves the skin, zaps cellulite, raises energy levels, helps people to lose weight and boosts the immune system.

Some of the procedures used here are banned in other countries, Britain, Canada and Brazil has also banned drugs purporting to dissolve fat. United States Food and Drug Administration does not approve the use of any mesotherapy drugs.
Majority of the doctors here supports evidence based medicine and looks forward to working with the authorities on the practice of aesthetic medicine.

People who strive to be beautiful, perfect in details on the face are normally with poor self esteem or they think that the world emphasize importance on being beautiful on the face. With beautiful face the world is your fortune, not anymore you can be beautiful on the outside (almost perfect with some parts under the knife) but yet the inside is suffering from depression, loneliness and insecurity and discontentment. Beauty is not everything in life, life encompass much more than looking beautiful but staying beautiful in the inside that reflect on the surface.