Antal indlæg: 84 Tilmeldt: 17.09.10 Status: Offline
pensionisten skrev:
Jeg havde besøg hjemmefra sidste år hvor manden ville prøve Dr. Fish i Shaweng, han fik efter hjemkomsten konstateret stafylokokker i nogle sår på fødderne efter besøget i fisketerapien.
Så nej tak, så hellere et vandløb et eller andet sted.....
Antal indlæg: 717 Tilmeldt: 13.01.10 Status: Offline
helt ufarligt er det ikke se hvad de skriver her
Fish spa closures highlight concerns about hygiene
Fish spas - a popular alternative to foot skin exfoliation - has recently been banned in 14 states in the US out of fears that the little nibblers could carry an infectious disease from one client to the next.
In Thailand, such spa treatments have created a big splash, with a huge number of people ready to be pampered by dipping their exhausted feet into fish spa water.
But according to president of the Dermatological Society of Thailand, Assoc Prof Nopadon Noppakun, fish spa operators who fail to keep hygienic standards are putting their clients at great risk.
"It's both the fish and the water that could cause infection," said Dr Nopadon, from the Division of Dermatology, in the Department of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University.
Fish spa treatment basically involves customers placing their feet into a water tank filled with toothless garra rufa fish - also known as "doctor fish". Within seconds, an army of fish will gather at the customer's feet and nibble the dead skin tissue away.
"The point is whether or not fish spa operators change the spa water regularly," Dr Nopadon said. "Let's just put it this way: it is like we clean a patient's wound. Medical practitioners use sterilised medical tools for every patient and we won't reuse them with the next patient for infection-control reasons.
"A customer steps into the spa water and if, unfortunately, he or she happens to have an infectious wound, the infection can definitely spread to other people who step into that very same spa tank."
Fish spa operator Akaraphol Yantathorn said that from his two years of experience, one of most significant contributing factors to infection among fish spa goers is the fact that they have an untreated infectious wound or chronic wound when stepping into the spa water.
"It depends mainly on how spa operators take care of the treatment system," said Akaraphol. "Not only do they need to use the right type of fish for the treatment, they also have to maintain a very high hygienic standard."
The rule of thumb, the spa owner added, is for spa staff to carefully check whether clients have infectious wounds on their feet. If they do, the clients will not be allowed to undergo the treatment.
"There was once a customer who had a wound on his foot and our staff failed to spot it prior to the treatment. Not long after that, all my fish in the tank died," Akaraphol said.
Right now Akaraphol's fish spa serves four to five clients a day. Spa water is changed on a weekly basis or sometimes every three to five days, depending on how many customers he serves.
To him, the most important thing fish spa goers should take into account is the fact that they must avoid undergoing treatment if they have a wound on their feet. This is not just for the sake of the fish but for their own safety.
"The operation of fish spas in Thailand is, in my opinion, second to none. So I think if clients know how to take care of themselves, fish spas should not cause any health threats."
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