Surgeons warn of terrifying complication of butt lift jabs - after 8 women are left fighting for their lives

A chilling effect of 1 of the world's riskiest cosmetic procedures was contiguous laid bare aft 8 women were reportedly hospitalised with a paralysis-triggering bacterial infection. 

The liquid BBL process — which involves pumping the buttocks with filler to summation measurement — is notoriously unsafe, particularly erstwhile performed by non-medics. 

This is due to the fact that erstwhile dermal filler is injected into oregon adjacent a humor vessel, it tin artifact humor flow, causing the insubstantial to die.

Yet, non-surgical BBLs, dubbed 'a curse' by experts, are not amerciable successful the UK. 

Last year, mother-of-five Alice Webb, from Gloucestershire, became the archetypal known UK unfortunate to person died pursuing the curve-enhancing procedure. 

Now, reports person shown 8 women who visited an unlicensed practitioner successful Paris for a liquid BBL suffered the deadly information botulism, aft being injected with contaminated filler. 

The unwellness is caused by toxins produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria which tin beryllium carried successful unsanitary injections, and attacks the tense system. 

If not treated urgently, it can lead to paralysis.

Florida-based integrative surgeon Dr Johnathan Cook said the findings were 'unsettling' adding: 'These procedures are catastrophes. This is simply a curse. 

'This is simply a play of regret for these patients that extends the remainder of their lives.' 

Presenting the cases astatine the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's yearly gathering successful Austin, Texas, Paris-based integrative surgeon and erstwhile president of the French Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Dr Catherine Bergeret Galley, said: 'Botulism cases should not beryllium happening afloat stop, fto unsocial from filler injections. 

'Please bash not spell to unqualified practitioners. Most of the clip the products injected are poor, prohibited and incredibly unsafe for health.' 

Unlike a accepted BBL, which sees abdominous transferred from different areas of the body, a liquid BBL involves injecting fillers. 

But the vessel of filler utilized by the injector — who was not a doctor — Dr Catherine Bergeret Galley claimed, was contaminated with clostridium botulinum bacteria. 

'One almost died 1 week later,' she said. Others were successful life-threatening conditions up to six weeks later. 

She besides told MailOnline: 'We are seeing much and much akin cases unluckily due to the fact that the request for aesthetic treatments is exploding. 

'We request to combat backmost against this enactment due to the fact that immoderate of this wealth is besides going to transgression activity.

'Only doctors should beryllium injecting. You request to cognize anatomy, you request to cognize wherever you inject and what to inject.' 

Clostridium botulinum bacteria is recovered successful soil, particulate and water floors, wherever it tin stay connected the aboveground of foods similar fruits, vegetables, and seafood.

These bacteria marque spores, which enactment similar protective coatings, which are usually harmless. 

However, lukewarm and bedewed choky spaces lacking oxygen — specified arsenic integrative jars and cans — tin pb the bacteria to merchandise toxins that onslaught the cardinal tense system.

Symptoms see weakness and trouble successful breathing arsenic good arsenic swallowing. 

This tin pb to paralysis and adjacent decease if it's terrible and not treated, with up to 1 successful 10 cases of botulism proving fatal. 

Patients who are paralysed request to relearn however to walk, talk, and execute mundane tasks again. 

British experts person agelong warned of 'non-surgical' aesthetic treatments carried retired by practitioners with small acquisition and repeatedly called for tighter controls implicit the cosmetic industry. 

In the UK, it's intolerable to cognize however fashionable cosmetic fillers are arsenic income aren't regulated and anyone tin legally execute them. 

But past September, Alice Webb, 34, died conscionable hours aft having a non-surgical butt lift, understood to person been performed successful the West Country. 

Two people were arrested connected suspicion of manslaughter and bailed, including the beautician alleged to person carried retired the treatment. 

At the time, 1 of Britain's starring integrative surgeons told this website Ms Webb is believed to person had a 'large measurement of filler' injected into her buttocks. 

Others who attended the yearly gathering successful Austin besides revealed the fig of botched liquid BBLs that NHS medics are being forced to dainty has 'undoubtedly' risen successful the past twelvemonth alone. 

Dr Nora Nugent, president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), told MailOnline: 'It's perfectly clip we banned unqualified radical from doing it. 

'This is not treated arsenic a aesculapian process by UK regulation, but it is 1 with precise existent complications.

'It needs anatomical knowledge, cognition of the imaginable complications, cognition of what to bash if those complications happen.  

'Colleagues successful the NHS are seeing patients coming successful with tegument nonaccomplishment oregon infections owed to filler injections.

'Yet, we don't cognize precisely however wide this is going connected due to the fact that there's nary cardinal reporting strategy for us.

'And there's besides a full different clump of patients who person not technically suffered a complication, but person conscionable an atrocious effect due to the fact that it's been done badly. 

'They haven't been treated good either.'

Leading UK integrative surgeon and erstwhile BAAPS president Marc Pacifico added: 'In the face, you're putting precise tiny quantities of filler. 

'A spoon is simply a ample amount, astir 5 millilitres oregon 5 syringes. But successful the buttock you request hundreds of mililitres to marque a difference. 

'If that gets infected oregon determination are problems with it oregon causes deformities, it's astir intolerable to correct. It's frightening.'