Botox for kids?

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have you read the article? seems like you have no clue at all what you are talking about.

you make it look as if parents inject botox to their children for beauty reasons. fact is, that certain types of brain damages and the resulting and very painful cramps and muscle spasms can be treated successfully with botox.
 
Define successfully.

Sorry, did not mean to come across as cruel, but it seems that the drug administration did their homework in not approving this treatment.
I can not even imagine the suffering these families are going through if they are trying such desperate measures to treat their children.

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cyberworkspace said:
have you read the article? seems like you have no clue at all what you are talking about.

you make it look as if parents inject botox to their children for beauty reasons. fact is, that certain types of brain damages and the resulting and very painful cramps and muscle spasms can be treated successfully with botox.
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Actually I was a dumbass, I re-linked to the wrong article on the same subject. From the article, I assumed that it was clearly just for "beauty" reasons, but I wasn't aware they used them for positive things..My fuck up.
 
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Define successfully.

Sorry, did not mean to come across as cruel, but it seems that the drug administration did their homework in not approving this treatment.
I can not even imagine the suffering these families are going through if they are trying such desperate measures to treat their children.

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well, what the article does not mention is the fact, that those children often have a very limited chance of survival for various other reasons like sudden lock of the respiratory apparatus e.g. so, clinically, those patients are high-risk patients anyway and hence they have a much higher chance of suffering from side-affects as well.

as said, we are talking here about a treatment that is often a last resort and intended to take the pain from the children.

and for each child that dies, which is of course a tragedy of immense proportions, you will sill find much more parents that are greatful that there is a treatment at all. cp can't be cured, but the pain can be taken away.

so, i don't agree with the fda here, which in general does a damn good job, but sometimes they weigh the well being of an individual a little bit too much over the well being of the majority of patients. thats allright, somebody has to do it, but it is a very tough call sometimes for a lot of people who are cut off from apropriate medical treatment which they have to get and apply in other than the official ways. and that leads to its own kind of tragedies.
 
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