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Alcohol Before and After Anti-Wrinkle Injections

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Alcohol Before and After Anti-Wrinkle Injections

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Leave 24 hours before and 24 to 48 hours after. Alcohol thins the blood slightly and widens small vessels, which makes bruising at the injection points more likely and more obvious. Having a drink is not dangerous and it will not stop the treatment working, but it does raise your chances of turning up somewhere with bruises.

The Deatils...

Before your appointment

The night before matters more than most people expect. Alcohol has a mild blood-thinning effect that lasts well beyond the drinking, so a heavy night on Friday can still show up as bruising on Saturday afternoon. If you have an event coming and you want the tidiest possible result, skip it for 24 hours beforehand. If you did have a drink and your appointment is today, tell us. We will not usually cancel, but we will be extra careful and you should expect a slightly higher chance of marks.

After your appointment

We advise 24 to 48 hours. The injection points are still settling, the vessels around them are still fragile, and alcohol dilates them again. Bruises that would have been invisible can become the sort you spend a week covering. There is no interaction to worry about between alcohol and the treatment itself, so this is entirely about how you look afterwards. The same window sits alongside the other first-day rules on our aftercare page.

Planning around an event

If there is a wedding, a party or a holiday in the diary, work backwards. Book the treatment at least two weeks before the date so the result has fully settled and there is room for a review, then keep alcohol out of the 24 hours either side of the appointment. That leaves you free to enjoy the event itself without thinking about any of this. The timeline for the result is on how long until the treatment works.

To Summarise:

Twenty four hours before, 24 to 48 hours after. It is about bruising, not safety, so the choice is yours, but this is what we advise.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

No. It will not affect how well the treatment works at all. The worst likely outcome is a bruise that would otherwise have been smaller or not appeared. If you have an event coming up, that is reason enough to wait a day.
There is no evidence that it does. The product binds to nerve endings in the muscle over the first few hours and alcohol does not interfere with that. The advice exists because of bruising and swelling, nothing more.
Some supplements and medicines can, including certain painkillers and fish oils. Never stop anything prescribed for you without speaking to your GP first. Just tell us what you take at your consultation and we will factor it in.

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