Mum left covered in painful boils for weeks after beauty jabs

Manchester Evening News · Patient story · 23 October 2024

In October 2024 the Manchester Evening News reported the story of a mother left with painful abscesses for weeks after cosmetic injections on holiday in Spain.

What Dr Ed said

She saw Dr Ed the day after she returned home. He treated the infection with a course of antibiotics and planned further treatment for the scarring that remained. He told the paper he believed the infection was caused by contaminated filler or needles, or skin that had not been cleaned before injection, and advised her not to have any further procedures for at least a year, because the infection could easily return.

Summarised from the article; no direct quote from Dr Ed is reproduced here.

Clinical context

Filler infections can appear days or weeks after treatment and sometimes need long courses of antibiotics. Having treatment abroad can make it hard to get timely follow-up from the original practitioner. If you develop pain, swelling, redness or lumps after filler, seek medical advice promptly rather than waiting. Read our treatment aftercare guidance and about scar revision.

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