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: Short YouTube monologue by Dr. Charles Mok addressing common myths about post‑Botox behavior and explaining how quickly Botox is taken up by muscles. The…

1 May 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Dr. Charles Mok addressing common myths about post‑Botox behavior and explaining how quickly Botox is taken up by muscles. The speaker asserts that there are no strict restrictions after injections (e.g., lying down, exercising, massaging, heat) and gives approximate factual claims: Botox has existed ~60 years, has been FDA‑approved for cosmetic wrinkles ~20 years, and uptake occurs roughly within 12–17 minutes (about half uptake by ~10 minutes).

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About 60 years.

About 20 years.

Roughly 12–17 minutes for full uptake; about half taken up by ~10 minutes.

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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.