staph infection to heart attack to death from a pedicure

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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. "

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