Beauty and risks coexist in acupuncture weight loss

Recently, incidents of visceral injury and sudden death caused by going to an unqualified beauty salon in acupuncture weight loss have occurred from time to time. The person in charge of the health department said that acupuncture weight loss and other medical cosmetology must be reported and approved by the health administrative department. In the relevant regulations to be issued this year, acupuncture weight loss, beauty and other medical behaviors will be strictly distinguished from traditional health care. Experts emphasize that acupuncture is mainly used in acupuncture, which is a medical method that invades the human body and has certain risks. Non-medical personnel are not allowed to operate it.

However, the reporter found that despite repeated requests, quite a few of the hundreds of various acupuncture weight loss, beauty and rehabilitation institutions in Shanghai are not qualified for medical treatment. Some beauty salons forget about profit and take advantage of the rules, resulting in constant injuries. According to the retrieval of the Municipal Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in recent years, due to improper acupuncture in China, visceral injuries such as heart, lung and liver have occurred, and even blood diseases such as AIDS have been spread, and lives have been lost. Experts reminded that the most important thing for acupuncture weight loss is to choose a medical institution with formal qualifications. For patients with acupuncture weight loss's contraindications, we should advocate a scientific and healthy slimming method combining diet and exercise.

● Reporter's survey

◆ Fees in acupuncture weight loss are uneven

As the weather warms up, acupuncture weight loss is also heating up sharply in Shanghai, and many beauty salons have posted advertisements for acupuncture weight loss. According to an incomplete statistics of acupuncture industry association, there are about 71 beauty salons and barbershops in acupuncture weight loss.

A few days ago, the reporter made a field visit. The reporter found that in different institutions, the fees in acupuncture weight loss are different. The reporter learned from the weight loss center of the outpatient department of Shanghai Acupuncture and Meridian Research Institute that the acupuncture weight loss here has a course of treatment of 11 times, with a charge of 151 yuan each time, and the whole course of treatment is at most 1511 yuan. In beauty salons, the reporter found that some places charge 3,111 yuan for a course of treatment, and the highest even reaches 6,111 yuan for a course of treatment.

To the reporter's surprise, not all the people who came here to accept acupuncture weight loss were fat. Many of them are young female white-collar workers with good figure. According to reports, among the female population, there are mainly two parts, one is white-collar women, and the other is menopausal women.

◆ Acupuncture promotes diet pills

The reporter learned that, generally speaking, acupuncture weight loss of traditional Chinese medicine has a plan, and regular acupuncturists will give dialectical treatment according to the different conditions of each patient. However, no matter what the nature of obesity is, there are generally no more than 21 acupuncture needles at one time. In some beauty salons, hundreds of needles can be tied at a time. Acupuncture pays attention to the effect of "getting qi", and only with a sense of acupuncture will it have a good effect. However, many beauty salons don't understand these things, just stick them up according to the general acupuncture points. Therefore, although hundreds of needles were pierced all over the body, they were all very shallow and could not achieve real results.

However, it is the intention of these beauty salons to fail to achieve results. In this way, they can consider other measures for dieters, such as making therapeutic auxiliary recipes and taking their health care products and nutrients. Most of these nutrients are health foods such as cellulose and spiral bath. Many foods sold contain appetite suppressants. After eating them, there may be some reactions, such as palpitation, chest tightness, inability to dry mouth, and some irreversible damage to the heart.

◆ "Crash acupuncturists" are frequently released

A acupuncturist in a beauty salon revealed that they usually only received some short-term training in acupuncture and then rushed into battle.

Another doctor, who declined to be named, told the reporter that he graduated from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine more than 11 years ago and has a medical license. Last year, I worked as a teacher for these short-term training courses. Most of the students came from beauty salons. Some students are now starting their own businesses, while others are doing acupuncture in beauty salons. After short-term training, students will get a certificate of completion.

It is reported that there are many similar training courses, some of which borrow the venues of colleges and universities, and many training courses even embezzle fake certificates of completion from the Bian Que Acupuncture Research Institute and the Acupuncture Research School of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

And all kinds of beauty salons use this kind of "cheating" to win the trust of all kinds of guests and earn rich profits.

● Expert opinion

◆ It takes five years to build a acupuncture weight loss doctor

Han Zhong, chief physician of the outpatient department of Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian, told the reporter that it usually takes at least five years to study acupuncture weight loss. After five years of undergraduate study, if you have a graduate student for two or three years, you can master acupuncture weight loss better. First of all, doctors are required to have a qualified medical license as stipulated in the National Physician Law. Therefore, only registered doctors can carry out acupuncture weight loss's treatment. However, only 1 months or 3 months of short-term training can not be treated; Secondly, we must master clinical diagnosis experience and clinical operation skills, so that the needle can correctly hit the intestinal cavity network layer of the abdomen; In addition, master the experience and technology of using related medical devices, such as electro-acupuncture instrument, spectrometer and leveling instrument. At the same time, in the process of use, we can choose the appropriate instrument according to the patient's situation and patient's requirements. Be able to master syndrome differentiation therapy, and adjust the individual plan appropriately and pertinently for each individual who loses weight under the overall guidance plan; Finally, doctors are required to be accurate in acupuncture techniques, techniques and medical treatment.

Dr. Han also said that not all acupuncturists can engage in acupuncture weight loss, and they need special training before they can gradually get involved in the analysis of the causes of obesity and practical operation, otherwise it will be misleading and lead to bad problems. There are more than 311 acupoints in human body, and it takes 1 years for a real undergraduate to study. How can a "short-training doctor" in a beauty salon know these acupoints thoroughly?

◆ The beautician can't cope with the patient's accident

Dr. Han said that some quick acupuncturists in beauty salons are not familiar with the knowledge of anatomy, and they don't understand the direction of important organs and nerve vessels under acupoints. During the process of acupuncture, it may cause accidents such as intestinal perforation and death of dieters. Therefore, it is easy to have stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine and waist puncture, multiple liver puncture, intrahepatic hemorrhage and death during weight loss. Beauty salons can't lose weight without referring to the regulations in the Measures for the Administration of Medical Institutions and the Law on Medical Practitioners. In case of an accident, there is no rescue equipment, measures and experience to deal with it in time. Under non-medical conditions, even if a medical accident occurs, it will not be compensated, and the beauty salon has no legal responsibility.

In the process of losing weight, people who lose weight may suffer from needle fainting (the patient has syncope) and needle stagnation (the needle can't be pulled out in the body), which requires the acupuncturist to timely and accurately deal with various reactions after acupuncture.

In addition, when in acupuncture weight loss, some quick acupuncturists did not strictly sterilize the silver needles or did not use disposable silver needles, which may also cause the spread of blood diseases; After acupuncture, red spots appeared on the skin, but in a few days, dermatitis and cutaneous lesions appeared. Some beauty salons do not use disposable silver needles. If they are used repeatedly, cross-infection will occur between needles, so AIDS and hepatitis may also be contagious.

◆ It is illegal to operate acupuncture weight loss without a license

Chen Qiang, the captain of the law enforcement brigade of the Municipal Health Supervision Office, believes that it is not allowed by law to set up a acupuncture weight loss in a beauty salon. Whether it is weight loss or other effects, as long as it is acupuncture, it must be a medical act.

acupuncture weight loss used a filiform needle, which must be inserted into the skin. Captain Chen said that according to the law, this kind of invasive and traumatic behavior belongs to medical behavior. Therefore, as long as it is a medical act, the implementers and places must have corresponding qualifications. In other words, the person who pricks the needle must be a medical practitioner with two certificates, namely, "Doctor Qualification Certificate" and "Doctor Practice Certificate", and the location of pricking the needle must be in a medical institution; If you treat outside the hospital, you must go through the approval and filing of the health administrative department.

At the same time, he also stressed that medical instruments invading human body must be sterilized by high pressure, and in some beauty salons, burning with boiling water or alcohol lamps may not achieve strict disinfection effect, which may spread blood diseases.

◆ acupuncture weight loss should combine diet and exercise

The World Health Organization suggested that simply losing weight is not the best way, including acupuncture weight loss. Therefore, with diet, exercise and sleep and other adjuvant therapy, you can lose weight. Moreover, a good sleep can also lose weight.

acupuncture weight loss will definitely rebound if you don't pay attention to your diet. Dr. Han said that because dieters tend to prefer to eat more sweets and greasy foods, if they are not properly controlled, there will definitely be a rebound. Therefore, the diet, exercise and sleep "three in one" diet package is the most scientific and healthy.

In addition, acupuncture weight loss must also adapt to the adjustment of daily life. Because obesity is mostly caused by unreasonable living habits. For example: do not like sports, drowsiness, overeating, etc. Therefore, doctors list "relevant regulations" on diet and exercise for consumers who come to acupuncture weight loss. This regulation is not to let consumers eat less blindly, but to pay attention to protein and eat less sugar and fried food. You can also adopt auxiliary measures such as reducing food continuously and slowly, or not eating on a certain day, such as insisting on not eating every Saturday, drinking only water and eating only vegetables.

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◆ acupuncture weight loss has taboos

The following three types of patients and some special conditions are not suitable for accepting acupuncture weight loss: 1. Patients with heart disease; 2. Patients with hypertension in Phase II and III; 3. Diabetic patients; 4. If you can't accept acupuncture weight loss immediately when you are on an empty stomach, tired, sweating heavily, or sweating heavily after exercise, you should postpone it or change the time.

● News replay

Although acupuncture weight loss's vicious incident has not happened in Shenzhen yet, similar "beauty tragedies" are common throughout the country.

1. It is reported that a 28-year-old young female boss in Taizhou was stuck with hundreds of needles when she was in a beauty salon in acupuncture weight loss, and then she restricted her diet and didn't even drink water. Her mouth turned white and she was still standing, and finally she died of heart failure. When he lost 1.5 kg in less than a month, he died suddenly under the silver needle.

2. A Mrs. Xue in Wanzhou District of Chongqing accepted acupuncture weight loss in a beauty salon and lost 8 kilograms in half a month. Weight loss of 1.3 kg in less than one month; However, she was not satisfied and took risks. As a result, she died of shock after a acupuncture weight loss and lost her life.