Women suffer rare nerve disease symptoms after Botox injections by ‘fake doctor’ As many as 15 women have been hospitalised in Bulgaria with symptoms of botulism caused by botched Botox injections.
Neli Georgieva, deputy chairperson of the Aesthetic Medicine Patients Association, said about their symptoms to BNT News: ‘Their problems include blurred and double vision.
One patient has reportedly lost vision in one of her eyes after a visit to a ‘fake’ doctor in the capital.
The medicine in Botox injections is made from the same toxin that causes a type of food poisoning called botulism, which is fatal in five to 10% of cases.
Patients began flooding the emergency department of Pirogov Hospital in Sofia with complaints of drooping eyelids and eyebrows, blurred vision and difficulty breathing.
