Recently, visceral injury and sudden death have occurred from time to time due to going to acupuncture weight loss, an unqualified beauty salon. The person in charge of the health department said that acupuncture weight loss and other medical cosmetology must be reported to the health administrative department for approval. 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 for acupuncture, which is a medical method that invades the human body and has certain risks. Non-medical personnel shall not operate.

However, the reporter found that despite repeated prohibitions, quite a few of the hundreds of acupuncture weight loss, beauty and rehabilitation institutions in Shanghai do not have medical qualifications. Some beauty salons forget their profits and take advantage of the rules, resulting in constant injuries. According to the search of the Municipal Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in recent years, due to improper acupuncture and moxibustion, internal organs such as heart, lung and liver have been damaged, and even blood diseases such as AIDS have been spread, resulting in loss of life. Experts remind that the most important thing for acupuncture weight loss is to choose medical institutions with formal qualifications. For patients with contraindications in acupuncture weight loss, we should advocate a scientific and healthy slimming method combining diet with exercise.

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◆ acupuncture weight loss charges are uneven

As the weather gets warmer, acupuncture weight loss is heating up sharply in Shanghai, and many beauty salons also post advertisements of acupuncture weight loss. According to the incomplete statistics of acupuncture industry association, there are about 70 beauty salons and barbershops in acupuncture weight loss.

A few days ago, the reporter conducted 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 there is a course of treatment in acupuncture weight loss 10 times, with a charge of 150 yuan each time and the highest course of treatment 1500 yuan. In beauty salons, the reporter found that in some places, a course of treatment costs 3,000 yuan, and the highest even reaches 6,000 yuan.

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, there are mainly two parts in the female population, one is white-collar women, and the other is menopausal women.

◆ Acupuncture comes with diet pills.

The reporter learned that, generally speaking, acupuncture weight loss, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, has a plan, and a regular acupuncturist will give treatment based on syndrome differentiation according to the different conditions of each patient. However, no matter what kind of obesity, generally no more than 20 needles are inserted at one time. In some beauty salons, you can get hundreds of stitches at a time. Acupuncture pays attention to the effect of "getting angry", and only with a sense of acupuncture can it have a good effect. But many beauty salons don't understand these things, just stick them on the general acupoints. Therefore, although hundreds of needles were pierced all over the body, they were all shallow and could not achieve real results.

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

◆ "Crash Acupuncturist" is frequently released.

A acupuncturist in a beauty salon revealed that they usually only received some short-term acupuncture training, and then they rushed to the front.

Another doctor, who asked not to be named, told the reporter that he 10 graduated from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine more than 0 years ago and has a medical license. Last year, I served as the teacher of these short-term training courses. Most students come from beauty salons. Now some students start their own businesses, and some students do acupuncture in beauty salons. After short-term training, students will get a certificate of completion.

According to reports, there are many similar training courses, some of which borrow university venues, and many training courses even steal the fake graduation certificates of the Municipal Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion and the Bian Que Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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

● Expert opinion

◆ It takes five years for acupuncture weight loss to build a 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. Undergraduate study for five years, if there are two or three years of graduate students, you can better master acupuncture weight loss. First of all, doctors are required to have a qualified medical license as stipulated in the National Physician Law. Therefore, only registered doctors can treat acupuncture weight loss. However, only 1 month and 3 months of short-term training can be left untreated; Secondly, it is necessary to master clinical diagnosis experience and clinical operation skills so that the needle can correctly hit the intestinal network layer of the abdomen; In addition, master the experience and technology of using related medical devices, such as electro-acupuncture instrument, spectrometer, level meter, etc. 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 and treatment, 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 to gradually get involved in the analysis and practical operation of obesity causes, otherwise it will be misleading and lead to bad problems. There are more than 300 acupoints in the whole body, which is a real undergraduate's learning need 1 year. How can a "short-term training doctor" in a beauty salon understand these acupoints thoroughly?

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

Dr. Han said that some fast acupuncturists in beauty salons are not familiar with anatomical knowledge, and they don't know the direction of important organs and nerve vessels under acupoints. In the process of acupuncture, it may cause intestinal perforation and death of dieters. Therefore, in the process of losing weight, it is easy to have stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine and waist puncture, liver puncture in many places, intrahepatic bleeding and death. Beauty salons can't lose weight without referring to the provisions in the Measures for the Administration of Medical Institutions and the Law on Medical Practitioners. Once an accident happens, 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 have needle fainting (patients have syncope) and needle stagnation (needles can't be pulled out in the body), which requires acupuncturists to deal with various reactions after acupuncture in time and accurately.

In addition, when in acupuncture weight loss, some rapid acupuncturists did not strictly disinfect silver needles or used disposable silver needles, which may also cause the spread of blood diseases; Red spots appeared on the skin after acupuncture, but dermatitis and skin lesions appeared a few days later. Some beauty salons do not use disposable silver needles. If 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 for beauty salons to set up acupuncture weight loss. 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 that had to be inserted into the skin. Captain Chen said that according to the law, this 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 of "Doctor Qualification Certificate" and "Doctor Practice Certificate", and the place where the needle is pricked must be in a medical institution; If it is treated outside the hospital, it must be approved and filed by the health administrative department.

At the same time, he also stressed that medical devices that invade the human body must undergo high-pressure disinfection, 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 with exercise.

According to the World Health Organization, simply losing weight is not the best way, including acupuncture weight loss. Therefore, it is possible to lose weight with adjuvant therapy such as diet, exercise and sleep. Besides, a good sleep can also lose weight.

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

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

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◆ acupuncture weight loss has taboos.

The following three types of patients and some special circumstances are not suitable for acupuncture weight loss: 1, patients with heart disease; 2. Patients with stage II and III hypertension; 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 or change the time.

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Although the vicious incident in acupuncture weight loss has not happened in Shenzhen, similar "beauty tragedies" are common all over the country.

1, it is reported that a 28-year-old young female boss in Taizhou was stabbed hundreds of times in a beauty salon when she was in acupuncture weight loss, and then she restricted her diet and didn't even drink water. Her mouth turned white, she stood still and finally died of heart failure. When I lost 15 kg in less than a month, I suddenly died under the silver needle because of losing weight.

2. A Mrs. Xue in Wanzhou District of Chongqing accepted acupuncture weight loss in a beauty salon and lost 8 pounds in half a month; Lose weight in less than one month13 kg; However, she was not satisfied and took risks. As a result, she died of shock after a acupuncture weight loss and lost her life.