He does pedicure with fish, after six months he loses his nails

An increasingly popular treatment in recent years, but with potentially devastating effects in some cases: making pedicure with fish in fact, can have serious side effects. The case of some twenty years, met by some doctors and specialists of the scientific journal JAMA Dermatology is an example: the young, six months after a pedicure, has indeed lost his nails. feet

The case did not escape several media, such as the network ABC . The girl has undergone this very common treatment, which involves dipping her feet in a tub with warm water (the temperature, usually, ranges from 25 to 30 ° C) in which small fish are found, known under the name of Garra rufa . These are fish that live in the wild in the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf and feed on plankton. In the absence of the latter, these small fish tend to feed on the dead skin on the legs and this allows to have a pedicure in a completely natural way

There is however some side effects, confirmed by the physician Shari R. Lipner Dermatology Assistant at the Weill Cornell Medical Institute in New York: "The nails fell after several months, so at first it was difficult to establish a correlation between the disease and this event. In fact, it is a possible side effect, known as onychomycosis, which causes the nails to fall as a result of an event because it can occur. act of a small lesion that stops the growth of the same nails ".