Are skin lightening glutathione injections safe and effective? – Dr. Rajdeep Mysore

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Glutathione is an antioxidant which is produced in the body. It is a very small molecule called as tripeptide. It is made up of 3 amino acid. So it is a very small protein. Antioxidants are substances that take up free radicals in the body. Free radicals are produced during chemical reactions. These free radicals are extremely unstable molecules and they can damage anything that can come around them so they can damage the skin. It can damage internal organs. It can cause lot of problems in the body, lot of disease are caused by free radicals. Even a person growing old is caused by free radical damage. So ageing is also a part of free radicals. So what does glutathione do is it removes all the free radicals, so it improves many disease conditions. Infact glutathione is given as a free radical agent when people are getting chemotherapy for cancer. Accidentally it was discovered that these patients who are getting glutathione in cancer experience lightening of the skin. So this became very popular commercially and being used for skin lighting treatments. As a dermatologist I would to recommend anybody to get glutathione injections there have been concerns regarding its safety. There have been reported deaths with glutathione injection. But still the craze for fairness is so much that people inspite of knowing this they still want to get fair. So if we are administering glutathione, we admit the patient for the first injection and we monitor for any sort of allergic reactions. We keep the patient for 24 hours and if they are absolutely fine with the first injection then we can go ahead with the subsequent injection without admissions. But the glutathione injections should be given at a very slow rate and monitored for 4 hours.