Botox is safe if your grandmother has myasthenia and you don't.

Nancy Swartz, MD answers: Should patients with family history of Myasthenia Gravis avoid Botox?

If my grandmother had Myasthenia Gravis, should I avoid Botox? Her symptoms started in her 70s, with a droopy eyelid. I don't think I have the disease but noticed if you have it, you can't use Botox. Does the fact that my grandmother had it, put me at risk?


Nancy Swartz, MD
1 month ago
By Nancy Swartz, MD - Philadelphia Oculoplastic surgeon
If you do not have myasthenia, it is safe to get Botox treatments.  If your grandmother had myasthenia beginning in her 70's, your risk of developing myasthenia remains very small, assuming you don't have other risk factors- like having other autoimmune diseases.  Most people who have myasthenia that runs in their family have a form in which they develop the disease in childhood.  
 
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