What's Allowed After Botox Injections?

Name: What's Allowed After Botox Injections?
Uploaded: 2024-05-01T14:15:00+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short informational monologue by Dr. Charles Mok addressing common post-Botox restrictions and debunking myths. The speaker states that most…

1 May 2024 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:43

A short informational monologue by Dr. Charles Mok addressing common post-Botox restrictions and debunking myths. The speaker states that most post-procedure prohibitions (lying down, exercising, massaging, heat) are unfounded, notes Botox has been used for ~60 years and FDA-approved for cosmetic wrinkles for ~20 years, and explains that Botox uptake into muscle occurs roughly within 12–17 minutes after injection (about half taken up by ~10 minutes).

Questions this video answers

About 60 years.

About 20 years.

Roughly 12–17 minutes.

About 10 minutes after injection; by about 17 minutes it is all taken up.

Chapters

What can you not do after Botox injections? Okay, you can do anything after Botox injections. So you hear a lot of myths that you're not supposed to lie down, not supposed to exercise, not supposed to push on the air, not supposed to get hot. It's all BS. Botox has actually been around for about 60 years. It's been FDA approved for wrinkles for about 20 years. So the common things you might hear about would be don't push on the area or don't massage the area after Botox. Theoretically it would have faster uptake by moving the air, massage the area or exercising the areas. The uptake of Botox takes roughly 12 to 17 minutes. When we we inject the Botox into the muscle, there's basically a push of those fluid into the muscle. It's getting pulled up by the muscle end plate and a half minute is done at about 10 minutes and about 17 minutes it's all taken up.