Embarrassing Illnesses

Haemothorax

Recent studies have shown that surgery is not always an effective treatment method for blushing because it can cause sudden and severe complications in some patients, such as haemothorax.

Haemothorax is when blood gathers in the space between your lungs and the walls of your chest (pleural cavity).

Horner's syndrome

Other patients have experienced adverse effects after having surgery for blushing, such as Horner's syndrome, which affects the nerves and muscles of the eye and eyelid.

Horner's syndrome causes your eyelid to droop and your eye to appear sunken into your face. The pupil of your eye gets smaller and there is also a reduction of sweating in the affected part of your face.

Compensatory excessive sweating

Another common side effect following surgery for severe blushing is compensatory excessive sweating. This is where you sweat in other areas of your body in contrast to your original problem areas .

Sweating is the natural way for your body to regulate your temperature. As surgery involves cutting some of the nerves in your face, which stops sweating in that area, your body may compensate causing sweating to occur in other areas.