Health and longevity / Chapter 28
This section is about a few ways of changing how you look by doing something to the body: going hungry, taking drugs, getting injections, and having surgery. The decision is usually made by comparing yourself with other people. The cost falls entirely on you, and a fair part of it cannot be undone.
This section does not judge what anyone wants to look like. That is each person's own affair. For the same goal, you can look for a prescription, a qualified provider, and follow-up, or you can buy online, go to a beauty salon, and raise the dose yourself. This section only compares how far apart the risks of those 2 ways are. The account looks mainly at what actually happens to the body, such as blindness, a stay in hospital, and death. Those 2 items on cosmetic medicine also involve criminal liability for practicing medicine illegally.
People with anorexia nervosa (the illness of starving yourself past the point of health) are about 5.9 times as likely to die as people the same age. Follow 1000 of them for 1 year and 5. …
A needle, a knife, or a medical device that breaks the skin or goes into the body counts as medical care. …
Of the people who went blind after a filler injection, more than half were injected in the nose, and next came the area between the eyebrows, the forehead, and the folds beside the mouth. …
These products are often found with a diet drug (sibutramine) added in secret. It used to be a weight-loss drug, and China stopped it in 2010. …
Men who test positive on a gym doping check have 3 times the risk of death of people the same age, and they go to the hospital more than twice as often each year. …
A prescription drug has to be sold against a prescription. Selling it online also takes a real prescription and a real name. …
This does not discuss whether to use them. It only discusses how. …
About 15% of people seen in plastic surgery have body dysmorphic disorder, which means magnifying a flaw other people can barely see until it affects daily life. About 13% of people seen in dermatology have it. …
Clear aligners are a Class II (2) medical device in China. The instructions require that you wear them under the guidance of a doctor with orthodontic qualifications, and that you go back regularly. …
A spot-fading whitening cream has to be registered with the National Medical Products Administration and get a «国妆特字» number before it can be sold. …
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