Today's Health Tip: Don't Inject COOKING OIL into your BUTTOCKS

Steven Howard · 19th January 2007, 09:35 AM

Another one for the "What's the harm?" files:

Quote:

A former beautician who injected cooking oil into a client, killing the woman as a result of the botched anti-aging procedure, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Martha Mata Vasquez, 39, injected Mazola corn oil into the buttocks of clients claiming the "French polymer" treatment would reduce wrinkles. She charged up to $1,400 for each procedure, prosecutors said.

Rest of the article is here.

Big Al · 19th January 2007, 09:54 AM

She'll prbably claim Mazola deliberately spiked the offending oil with some noxious substance just to discredit her.

Goshawk · 19th January 2007, 10:14 AM

Good Lord. It's like kindergartners playing doctor--"let's mix up some meduseen and get Mikey to drink it, it'll make him alllll better..." And off they go to the kitchen, and start mixing soy sauce and Kool-aid together.

And why cooking oil? It strikes me that she could have used simple saline--with no ill effects--and still have charged, and received, $1400 for the procedure.

MortFurd · 19th January 2007, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by Goshawk

Good Lord. It's like kindergartners playing doctor--"let's mix up some meduseen and get Mikey to drink it, it'll make him alllll better..." And off they go to the kitchen, and start mixing soy sauce and Kool-aid together.

And why cooking oil? It strikes me that she could have used simple saline--with no ill effects--and still have charged, and received, $1400 for the procedure.

Because she'd have had to buy the saline solution, and she had the cooking oil in the house already.

That last was a joke.

Seriously, she was calling it a "French polymer" treatment. If you show people a saline solution, they're gonna go "Oooh, that looks like water." Show 'em a tube full of slow gurgling oil, and their brain goes "aha, polymer. Gotcha."

Deetee · 19th January 2007, 10:24 AM

Injected into the buttocks to reduce wrinkles?? What did she have wrong with her?

I presume that oil was chosen so that it would not be absorbed into the body rapidly (as saline would be), giving a longer-lasting anti-wrinkle effect. This case is reminiscent of the one where some chemist was mixing up his own botox recipe to inject into patients and poisoned some. Even a dur-brain would figure that with lethal botulinum toxin a minor miscalculation could result in quite a spectacular poo-hits-fan incident.

The sad thing is that for that amount of money, the patient could have recieved safe medical treatment with one of the substances used today - usually polylactic acid or polyacrilamide gel (but silicone is still used widely).

MortFurd · 19th January 2007, 10:45 AM

Do you folks ever wonder what kind of messed up attitude it takes to shell out 1400 smackers to have wrinkles taken out of your butt? It's not like this is Claudia Schiffer worried about losing a modeling contract worth millions. This is just Ms. Prettyfoots from down the street. Joe Average don't care about wrinkles on Ms. Prettyfoots, he just wants to jump her bones.

joe87 · 19th January 2007, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Maria Olivia Castillo, 46, of Castroville died in November 2005 of multiple organ failure caused by a fat blockage brought about by a cooking oil injection, prosecutors said.

Similar injections caused medical complications for others and put one patient into a coma, prosecutors said.

Wonder how that works - did her bloodstream pick up the mazola and cause clot formation? I wouldn't have thought that a subcutaneous injection of edible oil would cause death or a coma. She was probably trying to get rid of the celulite look.

Big Al · 20th January 2007, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by joe87

Wonder how that works - did her bloodstream pick up the mazola and cause clot formation? I wouldn't have thought that a subcutaneous injection of edible oil would cause death or a coma. She was probably trying to get rid of the celulite look.

It could be due to an embolus. It's hard to get all the air out of cooking oil in a hypo - if the so-called therapist even bothered.

ChristineR · 20th January 2007, 02:48 PM

It's truly amazing how many people are out there injecting random crap into one another. Most of them seem to be near the US/Mexico border for some reason.

Corn oil I haven't heard of, but variations on silicon are very common, and I've heard of one woman injecting herself with beef fat--apparently she thought there was collagen in beef fat. And beeswax injections have been around for at least 2000 years.

The beautician was calling it "polymer" which implies silicon, which pretty much puts it in a category with all those other random injectors if you ask me.

Big Al · 20th January 2007, 04:18 PM

Sorry to be pedantic, ChristineR, but it's "silicone", not "silicon". Silicon is the sand and microchip stuff.

ChristineR · 20th January 2007, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Big Al

Sorry to be pedantic, ChristineR, but it's "silicone", not "silicon". Silicon is the sand and microchip stuff.

You know, I knew that but I couldn't remember how to spell it and I was too lazy to look it up, so I just spelled it wrongly.

Thanks!

baron · 20th January 2007, 04:29 PM

A wide variety of oils found their way into Mr Valentino's biceps and my oh my, doesn't he look well on it?

http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=211hate

Deetee · 22nd January 2007, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by baron

A wide variety of oils found their way into Mr Valentino's biceps and my oh my, doesn't he look well on it?

http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=211hate

Rule8ing Hell!

Quote:

Q: People always want to know why you do it because it's just not symmetrical [the swollen arms].
Greg Valentino: Yeah, but I'm not trying to be symmetrical. I'm trying to be a freak, you know what I'm saying?

Yes, Greg, we do.

BTW, the reason the woman died was because of fat embolism itself, which is something that happens directly from fat particles clogging up the small blood vessels in vital organs such as the brain, lung and kidney. It is not due to air embolism or blood clots.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic652.htm

Dustin Kesselberg · 24th January 2007, 10:21 PM

Valentino still claims his arms are the result of anabolic steroids. He's used as a poster-boy in many a anti-steroid T.V. shows where they basically say "See kids? This is what happens when you use steroids!".

In reality you can't choose how your muscles will be shaped whether you use anabolic steroids or not. It's purely genetics. The only way to alter the shape of your bicep is to inject foreign material into your arms be it synthetic oils or silicone or something similar to that. Which in effect kills your muscles over time. Valentino recently got an infection inside of his biceps and the doctors had to remove a massive amount of the "goop" inside of his biceps that he had injected over the years.

Cuddles · 25th January 2007, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by Big Al

Sorry to be pedantic, ChristineR, but it's "silicone", not "silicon". Silicon is the sand and microchip stuff.

But what do you bet there's people injecting that as well?

baron · 25th January 2007, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Dustin

Valentino recently got an infection inside of his biceps and the doctors had to remove a massive amount of the "goop" inside of his biceps that he had injected over the years.

That's after his own brand of DIY surgery... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yT8GPG7978

Foster Zygote · 25th January 2007, 08:10 PM

Check. Where'd I put that pen? Ah! OK... Don't... inject... eee... see... tee...

19th January 2007, 09:35 AM	#1
Steven Howard Graduate Poster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,797	Today's Health Tip: Don't Inject COOKING OIL into your BUTTOCKS Another one for the "What's the harm?" files: Quote: A former beautician who injected cooking oil into a client, killing the woman as a result of the botched anti-aging procedure, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Martha Mata Vasquez, 39, injected Mazola corn oil into the buttocks of clients claiming the "French polymer" treatment would reduce wrinkles. She charged up to $1,400 for each procedure, prosecutors said. Rest of the article is here.

19th January 2007, 09:54 AM	#2
Big Al Mage Questor Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,125	She'll prbably claim Mazola deliberately spiked the offending oil with some noxious substance just to discredit her.
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19th January 2007, 10:14 AM	#3
Goshawk Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,451	Good Lord. It's like kindergartners playing doctor--"let's mix up some meduseen and get Mikey to drink it, it'll make him alllll better..." And off they go to the kitchen, and start mixing soy sauce and Kool-aid together. And why cooking oil? It strikes me that she could have used simple saline--with no ill effects--and still have charged, and received, $1400 for the procedure.
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19th January 2007, 10:24 AM	#5
Deetee Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,788	Injected into the buttocks to reduce wrinkles?? What did she have wrong with her? I presume that oil was chosen so that it would not be absorbed into the body rapidly (as saline would be), giving a longer-lasting anti-wrinkle effect. This case is reminiscent of the one where some chemist was mixing up his own botox recipe to inject into patients and poisoned some. Even a dur-brain would figure that with lethal botulinum toxin a minor miscalculation could result in quite a spectacular poo-hits-fan incident. The sad thing is that for that amount of money, the patient could have recieved safe medical treatment with one of the substances used today - usually polylactic acid or polyacrilamide gel (but silicone is still used widely).
Deetee Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,788	__________________ "Reci bobu bob a popu pop." - Tanja "Everything is physics. This does not mean that physics is everything." - Cuddles "The entire practice of homeopathy can be substituted with the advice to "take two aspirins and call me in the morning." - Linda "Homeopathy: I never knew there was so little in it." - BSM

19th January 2007, 11:00 AM	#7
joe87 Scholar Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 89	Quote: Maria Olivia Castillo, 46, of Castroville died in November 2005 of multiple organ failure caused by a fat blockage brought about by a cooking oil injection, prosecutors said. Similar injections caused medical complications for others and put one patient into a coma, prosecutors said. Wonder how that works - did her bloodstream pick up the mazola and cause clot formation? I wouldn't have thought that a subcutaneous injection of edible oil would cause death or a coma. She was probably trying to get rid of the celulite look.
joe87 Scholar Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 89	Last edited by joe87; 19th January 2007 at 11:12 AM.

19th January 2007, 10:23 AM	#4
MortFurd Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,999	Originally Posted by Goshawk Good Lord. It's like kindergartners playing doctor--"let's mix up some meduseen and get Mikey to drink it, it'll make him alllll better..." And off they go to the kitchen, and start mixing soy sauce and Kool-aid together. And why cooking oil? It strikes me that she could have used simple saline--with no ill effects--and still have charged, and received, $1400 for the procedure. Because she'd have had to buy the saline solution, and she had the cooking oil in the house already. That last was a joke. Seriously, she was calling it a "French polymer" treatment. If you show people a saline solution, they're gonna go "Oooh, that looks like water." Show 'em a tube full of slow gurgling oil, and their brain goes "aha, polymer. Gotcha."

19th January 2007, 10:45 AM	#6
MortFurd Graduate Poster Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,999	Do you folks ever wonder what kind of messed up attitude it takes to shell out 1400 smackers to have wrinkles taken out of your butt? It's not like this is Claudia Schiffer worried about losing a modeling contract worth millions. This is just Ms. Prettyfoots from down the street. Joe Average don't care about wrinkles on Ms. Prettyfoots, he just wants to jump her bones.

20th January 2007, 12:33 PM	#8
Big Al Mage Questor Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,125	Originally Posted by joe87 Wonder how that works - did her bloodstream pick up the mazola and cause clot formation? I wouldn't have thought that a subcutaneous injection of edible oil would cause death or a coma. She was probably trying to get rid of the celulite look. It could be due to an embolus. It's hard to get all the air out of cooking oil in a hypo - if the so-called therapist even bothered.
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20th January 2007, 02:48 PM	#9
ChristineR Illuminator Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,180	It's truly amazing how many people are out there injecting random crap into one another. Most of them seem to be near the US/Mexico border for some reason. Corn oil I haven't heard of, but variations on silicon are very common, and I've heard of one woman injecting herself with beef fat--apparently she thought there was collagen in beef fat. And beeswax injections have been around for at least 2000 years. The beautician was calling it "polymer" which implies silicon, which pretty much puts it in a category with all those other random injectors if you ask me.
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20th January 2007, 04:18 PM	#10
Big Al Mage Questor Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,125	Sorry to be pedantic, ChristineR, but it's "silicone", not "silicon". Silicon is the sand and microchip stuff.
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20th January 2007, 04:21 PM	#11
ChristineR Illuminator Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,180	Originally Posted by Big Al Sorry to be pedantic, ChristineR, but it's "silicone", not "silicon". Silicon is the sand and microchip stuff. You know, I knew that but I couldn't remember how to spell it and I was too lazy to look it up, so I just spelled it wrongly. Thanks!
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20th January 2007, 04:29 PM	#12
baron Philosopher Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 6,045	A wide variety of oils found their way into Mr Valentino's biceps and my oh my, doesn't he look well on it? http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=211hate
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22nd January 2007, 04:18 AM	#13
Deetee Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,788	Originally Posted by baron A wide variety of oils found their way into Mr Valentino's biceps and my oh my, doesn't he look well on it? http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=211hate Rule8ing Hell! Quote: Q: People always want to know why you do it because it's just not symmetrical [the swollen arms]. Greg Valentino: Yeah, but I'm not trying to be symmetrical. I'm trying to be a freak, you know what I'm saying? Yes, Greg, we do. BTW, the reason the woman died was because of fat embolism itself, which is something that happens directly from fat particles clogging up the small blood vessels in vital organs such as the brain, lung and kidney. It is not due to air embolism or blood clots. http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic652.htm
Deetee Illuminator Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,788	__________________ "Reci bobu bob a popu pop." - Tanja "Everything is physics. This does not mean that physics is everything." - Cuddles "The entire practice of homeopathy can be substituted with the advice to "take two aspirins and call me in the morning." - Linda "Homeopathy: I never knew there was so little in it." - BSM

24th January 2007, 10:21 PM	#14
Dustin Kesselberg Illuminator Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 4,669	Valentino still claims his arms are the result of anabolic steroids. He's used as a poster-boy in many a anti-steroid T.V. shows where they basically say "See kids? This is what happens when you use steroids!". In reality you can't choose how your muscles will be shaped whether you use anabolic steroids or not. It's purely genetics. The only way to alter the shape of your bicep is to inject foreign material into your arms be it synthetic oils or silicone or something similar to that. Which in effect kills your muscles over time. Valentino recently got an infection inside of his biceps and the doctors had to remove a massive amount of the "goop" inside of his biceps that he had injected over the years.

25th January 2007, 08:56 AM	#15
Cuddles Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 18,534	Originally Posted by Big Al Sorry to be pedantic, ChristineR, but it's "silicone", not "silicon". Silicon is the sand and microchip stuff. But what do you bet there's people injecting that as well?

25th January 2007, 02:48 PM	#16
baron Philosopher Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 6,045	Originally Posted by Dustin Valentino recently got an infection inside of his biceps and the doctors had to remove a massive amount of the "goop" inside of his biceps that he had injected over the years. That's after his own brand of DIY surgery... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yT8GPG7978
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25th January 2007, 08:10 PM	#17
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