Fish pedicure basically is a process of dunking the feet into a tub or small pool full of small fish, usually fish called Garra rufa. The fish eats ups dead human skin when no plankton around and therefore cleans the feet off its dead skin and dirt accumulated on the feet dunked into it.
Recently according to a report in the journal JAMA Dermatology a woman’s toenails started to separate from her toes and it was blamed on a fish pedicure session the woman had recently gone through six months ago.
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It was only later on that she noticed her nails shedding off. While the fish species, in this case, was unfound and the report also claims that. There could be a possibility that the woman had injured her toe to cause her to toenail to become dead. This often leads to the affected toenail to fall off itself when the new toenail begins to grow. The medical term for it is onychomadesis, which is quite common.
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