Do I need to have a skin test?
No
Are there any side-effects?
The rate of reactions to RESTYLANE is very low. However, after the
treatment some common injection-related reactions may occur, such as
swelling, redness, pain, itching, discoloration and tenderness at the
injection site. These typically resolve spontaneously within a few days
after injection into the skin and within a week after the injection into
the lips. Other types of reactions are very rare, but about 1 in 2000
treated patients have experienced localized reactions thought to be of a
hypersensitive nature. These have usually consisted of swelling at the
injection site, sometimes affecting the surrounding tissues. Redness,
tenderness and rarely acne-like formations have also been reported. These
reactions have either started a few days after the injection or after a
delay of two to four weeks, and have generally been described as mild to
moderate and self-limiting with an average duration of two weeks. This
text does not contain all the information known about these products. For
more information please consult your practitioner.
Why do the lips sometimes become very swollen immediately after
a RESTYLANE treatment?
The cause of this is not yet known, but there is no reason to
believe that this is an immunological reaction. Normally, the swelling is
gone within a week after injection into the lips.
Can RESTYLANE be used if I have undergone laser treatment or
chemical peeling?
If you have recently had some other kind of facial treatment, you are
recommended to wait until the treated area is totally healed and the skin
has normalized (usually four to six weeks) before you undergo a RESTYLANE
treatment.
Can patients with allergies of different kinds be more
sensitive to RESTYLANE?
So far, no connection between patients with allergies and
patients that report a reaction to RESTYLANE has been established.
