One of the biggest problems within medicine today – and one of the biggest expenditures that those within the industry often have to deal with – is the cost of medicines and solutions, because it is all too easy to ruin them and make it impossible to use them, creating a cost that simply does not need to be there. This is never more true than when working with Botox and its different chemical make ups, because before it is possible to inject the Botox solution it needs to be mixed with another agent, usually a form of saline. However, many people make the categorical error of shaking the vial with the two mixtures inside as a way to mix them.
It is easy to see why people feel compelled to do this; after all, it is important that the solution mixes will with the crystals to ensure a uniform approach within the vial itself, so that it can be properly injected by needle. The trouble is that the Botox molecules are incredibly fragile and this shaking is just going to be too violent for them, causing them to disrupt, burst, and ultimately be destroyed. This then makes the Botox completely useless, which is a rather expensive mistake to make.
So that is the wrong way to mix Botox and saline, and a brilliant way to ruin a Botox vial. So what is the correct way? Actually, it is not really necessary for you to do anything to ensure that the two elements mix together well, because of the vacuum in the vial. The vacuum will pull the Botox and the saline together and mix them well so that you do not have to do anything to them in order to ensure their precise mixing. Any violent movements will just ruin the Botox, and that is just not necessary.
