North Carolina Woman Almost Loses Her Leg After Nightmare Pedicure
By Lisa Spear On 7/24/18 at 10:51 AM
A North Carolina woman went for a pedicure on Sunday that left her with a dangerous foot infection and a trip to the emergency room.
According to a Facebook post that the woman, Tracy Lynn Martinez, 35, wrote, she went to what she thought was a clean nail salon in the city of Winston Salem over the weekend. She didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, until she left the salon and started to get the chills, then came nausea and vomiting. She thought she’d sleep it off, but woke up the next morning with a swollen and inflamed leg. After an ambulance ride to the emergency room, she learned that she had contracted a bacterial cellulitis infection from a callus cutter, an instrument that state health agencies often prohibit because they are unhygienic. Martinez said she shared her experience on Facebook as a public service announcement, so that others would know to beware of nail salons that use these instruments.
https://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-woman-almost-loses-her-leg-after-nightmare-pedicure-1039782
