| Botolinum toxin A has been around for about three | | | | Several clinical tests have proven that the patients |
| decades, but its many benefits to the health of | | | | who were injected with the botox treatment for |
| patients taking it are just starting to surface. | | | | eye spasms and aesthetic purposes were spared |
| Medical doctors, especially in the United States, | | | | from the onset and occasional attacks of migraines. |
| started injecting what is more popularly known as | | | | Surveys covering botox patients also confirm the |
| botox to patients who suffer from an eye disorder | | | | notion. Those patients emphasized that after using |
| known as strabismus. Strabismus is characterized by | | | | botox, they have not experienced severe and even |
| an abnormal misaligning of the eyes, leading to | | | | mild headaches, for at least six months. |
| crossed eyes. | | | | Specific injection points |
| In 1989, the US Food and Drug Administration | | | | However, doctors note that to be able to treat |
| approved the use of botox as a treatment for eye | | | | headache episodes, botox has to be injected in |
| muscle disorders like uncontrolled twitching. Thus, the | | | | specific areas of the body. Particularly, studies and |
| use of botox in the medical profession became wide | | | | reports of patients indicate that botox has to be |
| spread. | | | | injected in any of the following areas: the side and |
| But like many other drugs, the potential of botox has | | | | the back of the head, the forehead, the eyes and |
| expanded beyond its original purpose. In the recent | | | | the muscles of the brow. |
| years, the drug has also been discovered to treat | | | | Other than the specified areas, botox injections are |
| the awkward excessive underarm sweating and | | | | not found to lead to the prevention and cure of |
| more importantly, to get rid and prevent wrinkles in | | | | headaches. Those who suffer migraines on a daily, |
| the face. | | | | weekly and regularized basis are singled out as the |
| Cosmetic treatment | | | | primary beneficiaries of the new botox purpose. |
| It is its use as cosmetic treatment that botox's | | | | It is logical that from the start of this new discovery, |
| popularity rapidly shot up. From the United States, | | | | botox would further become popular not just for |
| cosmetic surgeons and practitioners from across the | | | | beauty-conscious people, but also for those who |
| globe started injecting botox to vanity-conscious | | | | have grown tired of consulting to neurologists for the |
| patients who aim to prevent the onset of ageing in | | | | treatment of headaches. |
| their faces. | | | | Surpassing neurologists' prescriptions |
| Many ageing ladies, and several men as well, prefer | | | | The traditional headache treatments have almost |
| to use botox to preventive premature and timely | | | | become obsolete with the emergence of botox as a |
| ageing wrinkles. It is because unlike other forms of | | | | headache treatment. Thus, neurolgists' patients have |
| treatment, botox does not involve the use of | | | | expressed relief that they have been given |
| scalpels and surgical procedures. | | | | alternative treatments than the conventional drugs |
| The doctor would just need to inject the drug to | | | | for headaches like the sumatriptan, or more |
| several specific areas of the face and the neck for | | | | commonly known as Imitrex. |
| its effect to linger for at most six months. The | | | | Side effects |
| satisfying result on earlier patients also has helped | | | | Almost all medicines and treatments have side |
| make the popularity of botox even more evident. | | | | effects, and of course, botox is of no exception. |
| Botox as headache treatment | | | | However, the side effects linked to botox treatment |
| But did you know that recently, another used of the | | | | are limited to inability to move the brow muscles, |
| drug has been discovered accidentally? Yes, aside | | | | which to some patients is good because frown lines |
| from helping patients prevent and control ageing | | | | in the forehead can be alleviated. |
| wrinkles and eye muscle spasms, botox has been | | | | Other than that, there is no other side effect linked |
| discovered as a potent drug to treat severe | | | | to botox intake. |
| headaches. | | | | Botox has truly become extremely useful in the |
| In the medical profession, headaches were largely | | | | medical world. It is no wonder that the drug's |
| dealt by neurologists who specifically focus on the | | | | popularity continuously rises up as years go by. |
| illness' diagnosis and cure. But until recently, plastic | | | | Those who are afraid of needles are now given |
| surgeons were accidentally linked to a longer-term | | | | more reasons not to fear injections anymore. |
| treatment of headaches or migraines. | | | | |