2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Who would think that an innocent pedicure could lead to an unpleasant infection.
As strange as it sounds, shaving your legs before going to the beauty salon for a simple maintenance of your fingers could end in a fiasco if a foreign body has contact with your skin, so the place you go to has had the courtesy of washing very well the bathtub.
"Shaving the legs can cause micro-fissures (or small cuts) in the skin, increasing the risk of infection after a pedicure," Dr. Lauren Ploch, a Georgia state dermatologist and Academy Fellow, tells InStyle magazine. American Dermatologist. "If bacteria, fungi, or viruses hide in an improperly cleaned pedicure tub, they can take advantage of cuts in our skin barrier and lead to infection."
In the worst case, you can end up with a bacterial infection, such as one caused by Staphylococcus aureus, which, if not treated with antibiotics, penetrates deep into the skin and reaches the bloodstream.
However, most spa-related infections would be relatively minor if treated early, according to the doctor.
The doctor recommends waiting to shave your legs after fixing your nails. In addition, if the person has a sore, blister or any type of fissure in the skin that is going to have contact with the water, it should be kept away from the room since “a basin may seem perfectly clean, but it can harbor.
Moral: prevention is better than regret!
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