The large number of beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery that help improve physical appearance has recently facilitated the emergence of a new type of addiction among women: it is called the ‘fashion’ woman syndrome and it is no more than a total dependence on aesthetic changes.
As he assures, in statements to Europa Press, the head of the Service of the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville and president of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV), Julián Conejo-Mir, “call her Carmen Lomana or Isabel Preysler, she is a type of a woman addicted to all kinds of changes – the use of Botox, fillers, peeling treatments, etc. – who ends up having polytraumatized skin”.
Harmful health effects
- The beauty treatments that these women usually resort to are not harmful to health if they are applied separately. What happens, according to Conejo-Mir, is that when they are addicted, “they do everything to themselves.” The consequences? “The use of some injected cosmetic fillers can cause granulomas as a reaction to a foreign body, while the use of Botox “even if it’s good, can sometimes cause facial arrhythmias,” says the doctor.
- Among the dangers of liposuction, highlights the that can cause depressions in the skin, while vitamin injections can cause bruising that makes them look like “a battered woman”, and exfoliation or ‘peeling’ treatments end up “charring” the skin.
- Another of the harmful effects of this addiction to beauty are contact allergies that can be generated by the abusive use of cosmetics and worsen by the continuous change of brands and products. On the other hand, losing weight in record time can cause stretch marks and even cellulite.
- And there the thing does not stop. Apparently, the excessive use of spas is also harmful to health. According to Conejo-Mir, whoever frequents them too much can develop an infection in the nails by germs called pseudomonas, which make them turn green due to the continuous humidity. In addition, it ensures that the high temperature of the water favors the accumulation of bacteria of all kinds and, therefore, a greater risk of fungal infection and irritations due to chlorine, and even allergies to massages, oils or creams can occur. Used for it.