This is serious stuff, folks. I can’t stress enough to not use plumbed pedicure tubs. Plain tubs with no moving water or bubbles should be fine, as long as they are properly sanitized, but plumbed tubs are not. Be careful in your whirlpool tubs at home too. Clean them with a heavy bleach solution running through the pipes OFTEN.
“She had said she had gone to get a pedicure and that they were all sitting there talking and she looked down and the girl had the pumice stone turned on the corner edge and she pulled back and Kim saw blood,” she said.
Medical records obtained by News 8 showed that over the next seven months the JPS doctor at a clinic treated Jackson for the MRSA staph infection on her foot from the cut.
MRSA is an aggressive bacteria resistant to common antibiotics and is sometimes found in the water of salon foot spas that are not disinfected properly.
The doctor put Jackson on a cocktail of strong oral and intravenous antibiotics.
“It got pretty big and she got pretty scared she was going to lose her foot,” Mathis said.
But on Feb. 12 the 46-year-old woman lost her life.
At her funeral, friends and family remembered Jackson as the mother of a 17 -year-old boys, twin 13-year-old boys and the wife of a man who took care of her after she lost the use of her legs 6-years-ago.
“It’s hard,” Jackson said. “Nobody has a clue. I mean everybody can say, I can only imagine. It’s hard…It’s real hard.”
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Pedi_Cure // Mar 21, 2007 at 2:24 pm
With my strongest convictions I implore people not to listen to irrational statements like those made by the first commentor by advising people “not to use plumbed pedicure tubs” but instead use those that do not have mechanism that “move water.” The problem is not the machines or the configuration, the problem involves cleaning and disinfecting whatever it is that you are using after each client! The writer used the word “sanitizing,” which is only the first step in making sure that the equipment is going to be safe for the next customer. After “sanitizing” or cleaning, the glass bowl, bucket, spa pedicure throne, with our without jets, must be disinfected with an EPA-registered disinfecant with the words bactericidal, fungicidal, and virucidal on its label. Amer-Kleen is one such product that meets these requirements and is a One-Step product- meaning it cleans and disinfects in one step. And, its economical to use by mixing just 1 oz. of disinfectant per one gallon of water! Also, please check out what the EPA/CDC is advising on their website:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/pedicure.htm
The only real way we will get the industry to change its work-habits is by making sure as consumers that we are aware of what’s going on and expect that the salon and nail technicians incorporate those changes or leave the business and find another occupation.
Thanks!
Pedi_Cure
Christina // Mar 21, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Thanks for the comment, Pedi - but as a 20+ yr nail technician AND having had lots of experience with infection, I know that pedicure baths with plumbing are not able to be adequately disinfected between clients. I also know that the vast majority of nail techs out there won’t do what is necessary. There is the top percent of techs that care about their clients enough to do the job properly (i.e. as well as it CAN be done in a unit with plumbing), but there are SO many more that don’t. For now, as dangerous and as easy to acquire as MRSA is, I have no choice but to recommend that clients do not use plumbed tubs.
karen // Feb 20, 2008 at 9:53 pm
My 91 yr old mother contracted MRSA after a skin nick after a pedicure. She became septic, then developed Endocarditis, causing an MI. She is in isolation, non-responsive right now. I am going to contact the retirement home tomorrow, and make certain they review safety measures and sanitation methods as there are about 250 who live in this very plush retirement center where she had the pedicure.
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