Posted on 11/30/2004 2:38:15 AM PST by Liz
Two couples are hospitalized in critical condition with botulism poisoning after undergoing Botox wrinkle-removing injections at a Florida clinic......
All four people are on ventilators and being fed intravenously — one couple in Florida and the other in New Jersey, where they had gone to visit relatives for Thanksgiving, said Palm Beach County Health Department spokesman Tim O'Connor.
"We're awaiting lab diagnoses to confirm whether the Botox injections caused the botulism," he said.
Botox manufacturer Allergan said it is cooperating with health officials to determine whether its products had been sent to the clinic, the Advanced Integrated Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
The unidentified man and woman hospitalized in Florida — who are both in their 50s — had Botox injections last Wednesday and were admitted to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center late Friday, O'Connor said.
Dr. Charles Schallop, the neurologist treating them, told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel the two said they felt weak the day after the treatment and went to the hospital when they started having trouble breathing.
Schallop said they told him a doctor at the clinic and his girlfriend received Botox injections on the same day, fell ill and were hospitalized in New Jersey.
Schallop said he suspects all four had been given Botox from a "contaminated vial."
New Jersey health officials acknowledged that two Florida Botox patients have been hospitalized with botulism poisoning, but said there's not yet been any confirmation that the cosmetic treatment was to blame.
The Advanced Integrated Medical Center was closed yesterday.......Bach McComb, an osteopathic physician and one of the clinic's founders, had his license suspended last year by Florida state health officials after he was accused of improperly prescribing narcotic painkillers that may have contributed to the deaths of some patients.
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Actually when you think about it skerry is a form of human botulism. Kerri's lies, deceptions, non accountablity for his actions and the crowd he hangs with subsist on botox. Bacteria needs bacteria to sustain life/propagate. (L) kerrie, the loser boy on a botox high.
Well if he used botox, he WAS poisoned.
Yet another reason to grow old gracefully.
It is equally possible that the person doing the injections doesn't know how to do math. The volumes used for injections are miniscule. When you are mucking with 0.01 and 0.001 it is an error of a factor of 10. May have given too much.
Good point. I viewed the package insert for Botox (available online). The practioner must first dilute the Botox with saline e.g. 1 ml of diluent yields 10 units Botox, 2 ml yields 5 units, 4 ml yields 2.5 units, etc. So yes, it is possible that it was either diluted incorrectly, or the wrong amount was given.
http://www.allergan.com/download/BotoxPI.pdf
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