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Press Release: Death by Pedicure or 'Dirty Little Secrets of Nail Salons' by Author Dr Robert Spalding
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NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Signal Mountain, TN, United States, 04/07/2006 - Death by Pedicure is scheduled to be released June 2006. This is the first inside book on the "dirty secrets of nail salons". Dr Spalding, a Chattanooga podiatrist has spent 8 years lecturing on the problems in the nail salon industry.
This book goes into details into foot and nail infections that have been mentioned by every major news wire and national TV stations in the US.
The book, Death by Pedicure will also cover the full aspect of infections in the nail salon industry, how you can protect your self from an unsanitary nail salon or technician, foot and nail care products to avoid, how the public is at risk, who controls the Nail Salon Industry, why the State Cosmetology Boards are ineffective, what is the most dangerous tool in a nail salon, how nail technicians can work with doctors to refer foot problems before they get infected, a national nail salon infection survey website, NAILSALONINFECTIONSURVEY, and many helpful hints how to keep your feet and nails healthy.
The book describes in detail the secrets the nail salon industry doesn't want you to know and how you can prevent exposure to these infections. Death by Pedicure has been endorsed by many physicians nation-wide. The book gives you a website you can reference. The book will be available on Justfortoenails and Amazon and other select booksellers and websites. Dr Spalding has also published a childrens picture book on diversity called the Kingdom of Fu Fu at sold on FuFuFactory and Amazon.
The national survey site for nail salon infections whille be the first national medical database to collect information from consumers, physicians, nail technicians, alson owners, cosmetologists and other individuas in the beauty industry. The information will be released to major wire services upon completion of the project.
Nail salon syndrome is a very common yet overlooked problem.I had a patient(also a friend) who went for a pedicure.She got a piece of her nail torn out.After that,her toenail got loose and a partial nail avulsion was performedon her.Subsequently she developed onychomycosis,which she blamed on midfoot trauma.I have a hunch that the trauma to her nail secondary to the pedicure was the culprit.
Thanks you for the comments on the book. I invite you to go to nailsaloninfectionsurvey.com and complete the survey...
the user name is doctor
and the password is infection
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Since we are patting ourselves on the back for not spreading fungal nail infections like beauty therapists I am curious about the following:
If a patient presents with some onychomycotic nails and some non path nails, how many pods would use 1 pair of nippers on the fungal nails and a separate pair on the non path nails? or cut the non path first and the fungal last with the same pair?
Or dont fungal infections spread that way? If they dont, perhaps we owe a part apology to the beauticians?
I think the article is more centred on spreading infection from one patient to another, as there is not a strict set of Infection Control Guidelines for beauticians.
One my previous clients (with onycomycosis ) before I moved from Brisbane was a beautician, and we talked "shop" about tinea infections, nail fungus etc. She said that while she did her best to prevent the spread of infection in her salon, there were no stringent Infection Control Guidelines in place for beauticians. She would refuse to touch the nails of clients with suspected infection, and would refer them to myself for assessment/treatment instead.
There is no "Beautician's Board" or Association that devises sets of procedures or guidelines. She advised me that where possible, disposable items were used, such as emery boards, and items such as clippers were cleaned/disinfected and reused. They soak the feet prior to treatment (which you know is not indicated in podiatry), and they don't swab the skin with alcohol or chlorhexidine twice before treatment to remove gross contamination on the feet. They use nail polish with a brush that they "double dip" and use on multiple patients! Do I need to continue? :p
So without a set infection control protocol in place, it's no wonder that we hear these horror stories of foot infection so frequently.
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) before I moved from Brisbane was a beautician, and we talked "shop" about tinea infections, nail fungus etc. She said that while she did her best to prevent the spread of infection in her salon, there were no stringent Infection Control Guidelines in place for beauticians. She would refuse to touch the nails of clients with suspected infection, and would refer them to myself for assessment/treatment instead.
Do I need to continue? :p 
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