Botox injections are used in small doses to weaken or paralyze muscles to reduce skin wrinkles or help treat some medical conditions. It has both medical and cosmetic uses. Botox is a protein derived from botulinum bacteria present in many natural settings.
Common Botox medical uses include:
Preventing excessive sweating. Botox injections can be used to prevent hyperhidrosis or severe underarm sweating Treating cervical dystonia. People with this condition have uncontrollable neck and shoulder muscle spasms Preventing uncontrollable blinking Preventing migraines Controlling eyelid spasms Other medical conditions that may benefit from its off-label use include facial redness and flushing, scars, certain types of inflammatory disease, and blistering lesions.…
If you suffer from treatment-resistant depression and oral antidepressant medications have provided little relief from your depression symptoms, then you should ask your psychiatrist if transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy is right for you. Unlike medications you must take every day, TMS is a treatment you obtain in a physician’s office on a regular schedule until your depression symptoms have diminished.
While there are various TMS treatment schedules, TMS is often performed for 30–40 minutes, five days a week for four to six weeks or until their depression symptoms have eased up.…
Ear piercings are fashionable, and many parents wish to have their child’s ears pierced for this reason. However, piercings do require poking a hole in the lobe of the ear and can leave your child susceptible to infection. For this reason, it’s not recommended that adults pierce the child’s ears at home.
There are also other reasons why at-home piercings are not the best idea. Here are some reasons why you should consider asking your child’s pediatrician about medical piercings.…