Beware of fish: the risks of pedicures "aquatic"

Making do pedicures can be dangerous? Yes, if there is aimed at operators who put into practice the most important hygiene or if you groped last fashion, "with fish pedicures". This is demonstrated by several recent studies pointing the finger at the non-disposable instruments, which can transmit diseases such as hepatitis also very serious, and against the footbaths where not sufficiently cleaned and sterilized, it must be said, the bacteria "splash".

HEPATITIS - The first to sound the alarm were the experts who met in Washington to the Congress of the ' American College of Gastroenterology ( http://gi.org/ ): doctors have clearly stated that the risk of transmission ' hepatitis through the use of the instruments used for pedicure or manicure is not negligible, if these objects are not thoroughly sterilized each time. David Johnson, the Eastern Virginia Medical School, referring to the case of an infection occurred precisely during a pedicure treatment has strongly emphasized the need for greater controls to ensure that the rules are followed without compromise: "Compliance with disinfection of instruments that are not disposable is essential to avoid infection, which unfortunately are not isolated cases as well as we think the theme is very underestimated, careful studies should be conducted on - Johnson says -. In the meantime, however customers should be aware that the danger exists and demand by operators cleaning and disinfection of instruments. Or, better yet, should bring their own files and scissors. "

BACTERIA - Much, much more frequent "hepatitis Pedicure" folliculitis are the "by foot bath": a research published in Clinical Infectious Disease comes to define them even endemic, that is constantly and regularly present in the population who love pedicures. The problem is caused by mycobacteria similar to that which causes tuberculosis: for if the footbath treatment has not been thoroughly cleaned, bacteria can infect the skin and remain customers. A particular problem for women, as the authors explain: "The ladies usually shave your legs before you receive the pedicure: tiny wounds caused by shaving can be" gateways "through which the bacterium enters the body, sometimes causing folliculitis then a extended '. As usual all would be resolved if the cleaning was unobjectionable but the researchers, after analyzing the 24-foot bath beauty salons in North Carolina, are skeptical: the bacteria found in more than 60 percent of cases.