Adriana Soares Lima Laurentino, a 46-year-old mother from Brazil, attended a private clinic for a buttock augmentation procedure less than 24 hours before tragically dying at home
A mum who recently went under the knife to have bum augmentation surgery has been found dead by her son.
Adriana Soares Lima Laurentino attended a private clinic for a buttock procedure less than 24 hours before her death. After the surgery, Adriana complained of severe pain in the area where she had been treated.
Tragically, the 46-year-old’s lifeless body was discovered in her bathroom on January 11 by her 20-year-old son. Adriana’s family has now slammed the clinic and is demanding answers following her death. Local media has reported that she found the clinic near Recife, Brazil, on Instagram.
From there, Adriana scheduled an appointment with a doctor and went for a consultation. She then underwent a few basic examinations before scheduling the aesthetics procedure on the morning of 10 January. Adriana paid £1,488 for the surgery, which is intended to enhance the shape and the volume of the bum.
According to a report by the Institute of Legal Medicine of Recife states that Adriana died due to an infection. In addition, a substance known as PMMA was found in her body, as reported by NeedToKnow. Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) can be used to correct small deformities or fat loss.
According to The Federal Council of Medicine, the substance has a high risk and should only be used by qualified professionals who know how to correctly dose the amount. The country’s Civil Police force is currently investigating the case.
Back in the UK, in December a mum-of-two who was taken to hospital with sepsis after a botched Brazilian butt lift backed the Mirror’s campaign to clean up the beauty industry. Jodie Nicholson, from Leeds, decided to have a non-surgical BBL in July 2022, which she was told was completely safe by the clinic. But the experience turned into a nightmare.
She said: “It was sold to me as extremely safe, nothing like the surgical BBL, and I was told if I didn’t like it, it was only filler and could be dissolved, no downtime or aftercare needed.” But the next morning she woke at 4am to feed her baby son and realised something was very wrong.
1. Cosmetic operations such as liposuction, surgical face lifts and surgical eye lifts, should only be carried out by properly trained surgeons on the General Medical Council specialist register. These surgeons should have UK Board Certification in Cosmetic Surgery for their area of practice.
2. All operations and high risk procedures must be surgically safeand carried out in clinics and hospitals inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
3. Make it a legal requirement for beauty clinics who offer non-surgical interventions to have malpractice insurance.
Jodie, now 30, said: “I’ve never felt ill like it. It happened so fast. I felt sick, dizzy and my vision was blurred, my thighs were red hot and rock hard. When I looked in the mirror, purple rings were around the injection area. By 10am the next morning my buttocks were oozing with pus. It happened extremely fast.”
Jodie went to the doctor who prescribed antibiotics but she struggled to keep them down. Five days after the procedure, she was taken to A&E as she was drifting in and out of consciousness.
Doctors told her afterwards that her type of procedure can go wrong even years down the line. Jodie, who is a carer for an elderly family member and has two sons, aged 9 and 3, said: “It’s awful. I don’t like that the people who do it aren’t held accountable unless you’ve actually died. You can’t believe they haven’t got a conscience and keep practicing on other people.”
