Re: staph infection to heart attack to death from a pedicure

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Good advice to avoid places like this. But realistically, it's difficult to avoid all these bugs no matter how many precautions we take. First time I got a serious infection that didn't respond to treatment was at a YMCA pool. Even with all that chlorine, I stepped on a small rock in the bottom of the pool, and got a tiny cut on my foot that became infected and would not clear. At the same time, I developed my first ever sinus infection. It wouldn't clear either after weeks on abx. I eventually gave up when doc started talking sinus surgery. I lived on decongestants until it "appeared" to go away on its own after several months. However, it was at this time that I developed "migraines". Of course, no doctors ever put any of these events together. Slowly over time, I developed thyroid disease, serious chronic fatigue (syndrome), very low blood pressure, FMS, the list goes

on. I'm certain that the bug I picked up at that pool, a bug that was capable of surviving a heavily chlorinated pool, combined with respiratory bugs I had from childhood, was a big part of my slow decline in health and why my sinuses showed up "seriously diseased" on CT scans many years later, despite having no normal symptoms of sinusitis. penny julie levitt <knightshotter@...> wrote: Can they tell this was the direct link? Pedicure Allegedly Leads To Woman's Death POSTED: 4:47 am EDT May 19, 2006 FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Texas paraplegic loved getting her monthly pedicure -- until the last one allegedly led to her death. Kay 's family is suing the Fort Worth salon where they say the woman developed an infected wound after her heel was cut with a pumice stone. The

family's lawyer says the 46-year-old woman died seven months later of a heart attack triggered by a staph infection. The suit says Angel Nails did not follow state regulations for disinfecting various instruments and the whirlpool used for the pedicure. One Texas cosmetologist said customers need to carefully examine salons and make sure instruments are new or sterilized. said "if

it's not clean and shiny like at the dentist's office, don't stay." Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.