Woman asks for tougher arrangement in Northern Ireland

“Don’t honestly do it. Don’t do it. It is not worth it.”

This is the advice of Bekki Burns for young people who are considering low -cost aesthetic processes.

Said Bekki She has developed vascular erosion after a “cheap deal” in a lip fill process in a local beauty clinic.

Six years later, he called on the Minister of Health to introduce stricter regulations on who is allowed to manage filling injections and botox in Northern Ireland.

Last December, all the political parties in Northern Ireland supported a Sinn Féin proposal calling for a more stricter aesthetic regulation.

The Ministry of Health said it has no current plans to introduce compulsory licensing for non -surgical cosmetic procedures.

Beckki said Sunday Policy Northern Ireland She saw a “cheap deal” for half a milliliter for the lips for £ 45 of a “new girl” in her area.

Just after the process she said she was in “severe pain” and noticed that her lips became white.

After a few hours, her lips were purple and swollen and later turned “miserable to places”.

She later discovered that she had vascular erosion from the injection of a blood vessel on her lips.

“I could have really been seriously distorted,” he told BBC News Ni.

He underwent additional procedures in an attempt to correct the result, but said he was “never really happy with what happened”.

Six years later, she said that her stuffing lips was not dissolved.

“I can see the shadow where he migrated. Always funny with my friends when you see it – it’s like Homer Simpson, as I have a fig tree Simpson.”

“I had a lot of people asking me” why don’t you just go and break it up? ”

“I would worry if I got the reaction and went to the hospital what my daughter would think if I came home and she was covered with bruises. That could be scary for her, that’s not something I want around.”

“Do your research if you are going to do it. I will never discourage people from getting fillers. I know that people do it for a push of trust,” Bekki said.

“But you really do your research. People are introducing to your skin, this is scary.”

It has warned that there could be people working in the aesthetic industry that “may not be allowed to”.

“There are so many out there and so many deals. It is not worth it,” he added.

Implementation of non -surgical cosmetic procedures such as skin fillers and boiling toxin is legal in Northern Ireland.

But there are concerns about the level of training and expertise of some of the people who carry out these services.

Those who provide treatments are not currently under any obligation to register with a public body.

And, despite the growth of adolescents that take the lips fillers, there are no laws under the age of 18.

The trained nurse and the owner of the aesthetic business Tanya Khan is one of the representatives of Northern Ireland for the British Association of Medical Aesthetic Nurses.

“It just hides me that in 2025 there is no reason for a regulation that really comes to Northern Ireland,” he told BBC News Ni.

“We certainly need to have a minimum level of qualifications before one is considered safe to introduce anything to anyone,” he added.

“The government is the only one in all that can make this change, which can make it safer.”

Chris Hoo is a plastic surgeon at Belfast Hospital and Kingsbridge’s private hospital.

It treats between 15 and 30 patients seeking intervention from surgical and non -surgical work each year.

“From a non -surgical or injectable perspective, it is usually either that a product is in the wrong place or a product has been used for the wrong reason,” he explained.

He believes that injectables should be given only by medical trained professionals.

“When it comes to Botox that is easy, botox is a prescription drug,” he said, adding that he thinks he should only be granted by trained professionals, usually a doctor with a prescription authority.

For the filling and the “myriad of other products out there”, Dr. Hoo believes that there must be “proper training”.

“And even then, I think the basic degrees in nursing, doctors, dentists – are not enough,” he said.

“I think people need to have a more powerful training program – accredited training and registration with an accredited body – before they are allowed to do these things.”

The Save Face campaigns, a register of accredited professionals and clinics, received 136 complaints in Northern Ireland last year with respect to injectable complications.

In December last year, all parties supported Sinn Féin MLA and former Liz Kimmins Committee Chairman of Health, seeking stricter regulations to prevent complications.

Amendments by Dup Mla Dianne Dodds and Ulster Unionist Mla Alan Chambers called on the Minister of Health to ban Botox from under 18 years of age.

Botox -type injections for adolescents has been entered in England There are already plans to do the same in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

In April 2022, the Health and Care of 2022 gave the United Kingdom and Social Secretary The power of introducing a licensing regime For non -surgical cosmetic procedures in England.

In a statement, the Ministry of Health said it did not have “current plans to introduce compulsory licensing for non -surgical cosmetic procedures”.

“Any future review of the regulation depends on the available resources,” they added.

Linda Dillon said it is “really important” for Health Minister Mike Nesbitt to “fulfill applications for this proposal” and to promote legislation.

“It has not yet come to legislation before the Commission in relation to anything,” he said.

“This is what we are here to do. And we are absolutely ready to help.”

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