EXCLUSIVE Mother-of-one, 58, distraught after £120 fat-melting jabs triggered a massive infection and left a 'golf-ball sized hole' in her tummy WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT READ MORE: I took a weight-loss jab to get beach-body ready. It was a mistake By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline Published: 08:16 BST, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 08:16 BST, 22 July 2024 e-mail View comments Fat dissolving injections left a mother-of-one with a cricket-ball sized abscess in her abdomen that required emergency surgery. Julia Lanni, 58, paid just £120 for 16 Aqualyx injections to tackle fat on her stomach — a procedure that can cost up to £400 — in hope it would boost her body confidence.
But just a week later the child support worker from Hertfordshire developed an abscess the size a fist above her navel and had to be rushed to hospital for surgery. The cosmetic procedure left her £2,500 out of pocket, due to missed work, and she has been left with a golf-ball sized scar across her tummy. Clinics market Aqualyx injections as a 'non-surgical alternative to liposuction which also tightens the skin.
Julia Lanni, 58, paid just £120 for 16 Aqualyx injections across her belly — a procedure that can cost up to £400 — in hope it would improve her body confidence But just three days after the procedure she started to experience severe pain which developed into an abscess Websites claim the jabs work by dissolving membranes around fat cells which are then triggers 'flushed out' of the body by .