Unfortunately it’s not uncommon for women to be dismissed by medical professionals. I hope Victoria remains healthy. I can’t imagine what’s she’s endured.
I feel so bad for Victoria. I'm absolutely shocked that she wasnt put on some crazy strong IV antibiotics to head these infections off. I had osteomyelitis in my right heel due to a botched surgery but it was found within weeks not years. After I had my heel debrided from the infection, I was on IV antibiotics for months (much to the downfall of my kidneys but this isnt a kidney story) and I kept my foot. Granted to get to the osteomyelitis point my first surgeon just kept feeding me stronger painkillers when I was telling him that things looked infected. I went from walking with a cane to being on crutches as it progressed. But finally I took my health into my own hands and saw another doctor who immediately recognized the signs of infection and within a week I was being operated on again to remove the infection and placed on the IV antibiotics. It wasnt an easy time. It wasnt painless, and I do have complications from all of that hell I went though. But in the end, I kept my foot. So if my story and Victoria's stories are any warning to anyone. YOU are your own best medical advocate. If you dont like what a doctor tells you or something seems wrong, seek another opinion.
You would not think of it but actually your little toe is very important. It helps stabilizing the whole foot and the equilibrium as a whole. That poor woman!
I used to work in one of these places, i believe it can be done well but usually isn't. The water is changed too often for the fish, and it's not recommended to have so many in a tank. The owners where i worked didn't get any real advice on how to care for them. We were not qualified to be checking feet for infection or risks. People only wipe their feet with a wetwipe before using them. The fish aren't starved at all, but the risk of cross contamination is mega high. The fish where i worked became infected with black growths and the owners didn't care. I wouldn't recommend it.
I only found out about fish tuberculosis last week. It survives in water environments including fish tanks. A friend had a number of major surgeries on her hand to remove the disease. No way will I ever have a fish spa.
I’ve been curious about this pedicure for a while but after some googling, I was properly turned off by the idea. I appreciate you sharing your insights.
I can't think of these pedicures without thinking about Dirty Dan Schneider because one of the most uncomfortable times I watched one of his shows as a kid involved them. It just felt wrong and the more I thought about my feet and everywhere they go, the less I wanted a fish to ingest the dead skin off of them. It felt cruel. The idea of living beings trapped in a small container with nothing to eat but dead skin just feels...🤢🤢🤮. I'll just stick with a pumice stone and body cream to take care of my feet. It's better that way.
It is unethical to starve fish for these treatments, but it is worth mentioning, that a lot of fish really enjoy eating the dead skin of mammals. Why I know? I lived in areas were you can put your feet into a lake and all the little fishies cam to nibble on your feet, they were not starving, they thought they get a special treat. What is disgusting for us, is not necessarly disgusting for animals. It still pretty idiotic to use fish as a beauty treatment though... as a strictly controlled medical treatment, they have value, but for beauty purposes they do not.
i could never imagine the water could be in any way hygenic, people keep putting their feet in it and the fish live in it?? the fish are gonna poop. have their own little bacteria living on them. whole little ecosystem in there D:
hygenic is a wide term, it does not mean the same as steril. Done right it can be absolutly hygenic, the water needs to be exchanged frequently, the fish need rounds of antibiotics every now and then, and of course you have to leave time between treatments with the same fish group, since most germs that affect humans cannot live on or in fish that alone will reduce the risk of infection massively... Which is why as a medical treatment for certain conditions they have a real worth... as beauty treatment I have my doubts. After all the reason why they are of value as medical treatment, is the fact, that they fish can remove the access skin completely pain free. Which is a big deal, when you have skin that is so thick and brittle that it cracks when you move and touch hurts you. For these patients these fish give relief that other methods can hardly achieve, especcially not without pain being involved.
My thoughts exactly. Lol My family is from Arkansas and as a kid we regularly went to the "crick" and had to avoid crayfish, leeches, and of course ticks in the high grass around the water.
I actually did this but in a little hard to get to pond in butt fuck nowhere middle of New England. The little fish nibbled at my toes and there where loons to. I had to get out tho when a very curious and very demanding catfish decided to swim up my shorts. Definitely a magical experience. Other than the fish assault.
It just occurred to me that even if the water is completely purified and cleaned and sterile... once you load it up with all those fish eventually they're gonna need to poop 🤢 Aside from the risks to humans... fish are really sensitive to water temperature and Ph levels and the minerals and salts etc. If someone has done sugar scrubs and put all kinds of creams and lotions on their feet, that can't be good for the fish. Literally nothing good can come of these fish spas that can't be achieved with safer less animal cruelty means.
Not surprising whatsoever. Lirerally have several medical devices that come with heightened risks of blood stream infection and ive survived sepsis 5 times with 3 co-occuring osteomyelitis of my hip and si joint and endocarditis/septic emboli 2 other times and i was sent home from the ER almost every single time ince before coming back thw next day with full blown sepsis .... even with my medical history
As a fish keeper it makes so much sense that bacteria in the water causes issues, we literally add bacteria to the water (to speed up the growth of bacteria in the tank) as it forms a crucial part of a healthy ecosystem for the fish, but absolutely not for humans. Also, I’ve never found this treatment appealing anyway.
Also is it even possible to like clean the water? Aren’t the fish pooping and stuff in there? I don’t want to touch dirty fish water, let alone dunk my feet in there
Omg they made a bit out of this on victorious and i thought it was made up nonsense on account of Schneider being a creep about feet. I didn't know people were actually doing this😂
It is absolutly possible to "sanitise" fish, but it is expensive and time consuming, because you have to swap all water, let them sit in that for a while to have as much germs die of as possible and then give them a round of antibiotics/antimycotics befor the next time they get to "work". Most human deases cannot survive in fish, so time alone and a water swap will bring down the risk considerably allready. But because this treatment is done specifically with vulnerable people the antibiotic treatment is still necessary just to be sure. So it is not a viable option for pure beauty treatments, as it is really expensive to keep the fish as clean as necessary, but for some skin deseases this treatment is valuable, especcially since it is associated with less pain for the patient, then other treatments, that remove access skin.
It seems having a running "stream" would be a good fix? Constantly flowing water, constantly filtered, treated daily with things like the antibiotics plus giving fish all the room to swim to keep them healthy....would be enough to ensure things are clean enough? I'm picturing like a 10 to 12 trough of flowing water, with places to sit and put your feet in on the sides. PLUS a thorough foot bath BEFORE and AFTER?
Honestly if you need a gentle cleanse just get a soap saver. I made one myself with crochet out of cotton yarn so it's soft but not too soft. And it gives me a gentle scrub when I use the bar of soap in the shower on top of preserving the soap for longer. It almost feels like a scratch on an itch. Like not aggressively scratchy but also not dull. You don't need to go with a full on metal scrubby sponge to get a scrub. And fish sounds weird.
You should never have open areas anywhere near water where fish are present, not even if it is a private fish take that you take care of. Water is the perfect medium to grow microbes, now combine that with fish waste, and you have a perfect food source for the bacteria to replicate.
Just imagine, those fish see two giant things come towards them and they bite at it because they're probably scared and hungry. Now imagine all the stress/fear poops they've done in that water that you have your feet inside. Gross.
sanitary issues aside (not all facilities make sure their fish are desease free because that is really hard to do) it does feel nice unless you are very tickelish... we did it as children with wild baby fish 😁 But I would not claim that it is super healthy... sometimes the fish caused minor abresions for example.
ugh. i used to have 80 gallon freshwater fish tanks. got stuck by a spiny pectoral fin, almost lost my finger. coming from an old seaport, you will see many fisherman with missing fingers from that
I've never even considered it as I'm way too ticklish, and think it's animal cruelty. The hygiene aspect and wrong type of fish is a good way to dissuade others, though. Thanks as always for this interesting and educational series.
I remember there was one in a local shopping centre, big windows right into the little tanks and you could watch people getting their dead skin eaten off as you walked by. It was always busy too!
Clicked on this video so fast - I used to go to the salon that brought the "doctor fish pedicure" to the US (Yvonne). Although I could have sworn they started offering it before 2008. I thought I was still in high school when it popped up but I graduated in 2006. I never had it done because of Fish Ethics.
My family lived out in the country and the only way to get water to put out housefires was to dig a pond and fill it with water. There were no fire hydrants at all where I lived. We stocked our pond with bluegill, sunfish, and crappie. But we also fed them food pellets, that looked like the tips of someones fingers or toes lol. So whenever you'd swim in the pond, they'd follow you and nibble at your toes and hands. As a little child it was traumatizing to see a gigantic school of bluegill chasing me around 🤣🤣🤣. They were super tame and would recognize family members who'd walk up to the pond's edge (they wanted food lol). And they'd follow you around, if you walked around the pond. We never ate them becase some of us kids were too attached to some of the more identifiable ones lmao.
Fish pedicures always gave me the ick, but I also have such ticklish feet I have a kick reflex if anyone touches them, so this is just a general nightmare for me lol.
Same here! I've never had a pedicure as I'm afraid of kicking them in the teeth. I was tickled by my sibs until I cried so I HATE anyone touching my feet bottoms.
I visited Thailand around the same time as Victoria and these fish pedicures were EVERYWHERE there. The idea of it was a no for me. So glad I didn't try it 😢 Poor Victoria that sounds like utter agony.
I did one with my sister in Thailand. I couldn’t keep my feet in there because it was so ticklish. Now I’m really glad I couldn’t handle it. Poor fish.
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My dad and brother got this for free in Croatia a really long time ago. They were hanging around in the water and the fish just nibbled their feet and it was so weird. They thought they were food for real. I remember my dad yelled he got bit by a fish. They never touched my feet for some reason though.
We would walk by these in Cozumel, Mexico on our cruises & I was curious but scared of how 'possibly' dirty waters in the tanks as we didn't stick around to see if they changed it. Poor Victoria!!🤠
My dad paid for me to hand this done 14 years ago in my local shopping centre...... i was pregnant with my eldest 😱. It was a novel experience and no harm done but yikes!
I work at a pet store, I'm the aquatics specialist so I'm really just the fish person there and with aquariums the water has just natural good and bad bacteria in it because aquariums are ecosystems and the fish need all these bacterias in order to survive and thrive. Now for us humans these bacterias aren't necessarily a good thing, that's why whenever I have a cut on my hands I have to put liquid band aid on it no ifs and or buts. We also have signs on all of the tanks that basically says hey fish and the water they live in carry bacteria, wash your hands after interacting with fish and don't drink fish water. Now that being said if I was stupid rich I would have a pond with these guys and have my own private pedicure whenever I want and the fish will be well taken care of
Ain’t nobody touching my feet except my podologist in her hygienic practice. God bless her, she saved my life from pain of the ingrown toenail. I haven’t dared to clip my own toenails since.
Many years ago, David Bellamy a Science Professor, had a tv series. One program he was swimming in a tropical sea, cannot remember, it was so long, he was floating on his back, he was suffering from mouth herpes at the time, suddenly a small school of small fish began to nibble away at the herpes on his mouth, after which he never suffered from herpes again.
I don't believe that at all. Herpes cannot be eaten away to be cured. Herpes can stay dormant in your body for years which is why it's impossible, for now at least, to cure it. My best guess would be that he just didn't have an outbreak again 🤷♀️
Between the potential infections and the fact that in many places they starve the fish in order to get them to do it, it should honestly be banned everywhere.
We encountered this fish in their natural environment in Mexico, where my partner soaked his feet in a cenote and really enjoyed it. Then we saw them in tiny plastic tubs on the streets of Playa del carmen… it was said to thing they were stolen from their natural habitat for someone to make a profit off them. Learning that it’s also a health hazard just adds to my dislike of this practice.
I thank you for talking about this because I never would have thought anything of it and definitely would have tried it out but I mean I've swam in rivers before, I know what it feels to have fish nibbling my toes haha I don't need to expose myself AND pay for the privilege haha
Before I ever heard of the fish thing, I went swimming in the Great Salt Lake. We were on vacation, I'd done a lot of walking, and I had heel blisters. I came out of the lake - and my blisters and all the dead skin was gone. Something cleaned up my feet fantastically. They were so soft for a few weeks. I'm glad I didn't know it was happening....it would have creeped me out. And swimming in that lake is the most disgusting thing I've ever done....the foot eating just makes it worse.
I've, always thought I didn't want yo because of the water avd other people's scabby feet that have just come out of it, you fmdint know who's been in before
sorry what,,???? fish pedicures weren’t just a dan schneider universe bit?????? i genuinely thought it was something he made up and implemented in his shows like pear phones or bibble lol
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Unfortunately it’s not uncommon for women to be dismissed by medical professionals. I hope Victoria remains healthy. I can’t imagine what’s she’s endured.
Yes I was just about to comment this. Unfortunately I have experienced this.
@ yeah, me too. Sorry that happened to you. It really sucks.
I feel so bad for Victoria. I'm absolutely shocked that she wasnt put on some crazy strong IV antibiotics to head these infections off. I had osteomyelitis in my right heel due to a botched surgery but it was found within weeks not years. After I had my heel debrided from the infection, I was on IV antibiotics for months (much to the downfall of my kidneys but this isnt a kidney story) and I kept my foot. Granted to get to the osteomyelitis point my first surgeon just kept feeding me stronger painkillers when I was telling him that things looked infected. I went from walking with a cane to being on crutches as it progressed. But finally I took my health into my own hands and saw another doctor who immediately recognized the signs of infection and within a week I was being operated on again to remove the infection and placed on the IV antibiotics. It wasnt an easy time. It wasnt painless, and I do have complications from all of that hell I went though. But in the end, I kept my foot.
So if my story and Victoria's stories are any warning to anyone. YOU are your own best medical advocate. If you dont like what a doctor tells you or something seems wrong, seek another opinion.
You're such a strong person to go through this experience. Wish you as much health as posible!
You would not think of it but actually your little toe is very important. It helps stabilizing the whole foot and the equilibrium as a whole. That poor woman!
which is weird cos when im standing, mine doesnt even touch the floor
I used to work in one of these places, i believe it can be done well but usually isn't. The water is changed too often for the fish, and it's not recommended to have so many in a tank. The owners where i worked didn't get any real advice on how to care for them. We were not qualified to be checking feet for infection or risks. People only wipe their feet with a wetwipe before using them. The fish aren't starved at all, but the risk of cross contamination is mega high. The fish where i worked became infected with black growths and the owners didn't care. I wouldn't recommend it.
I only found out about fish tuberculosis last week. It survives in water environments including fish tanks. A friend had a number of major surgeries on her hand to remove the disease. No way will I ever have a fish spa.
I’ve been curious about this pedicure for a while but after some googling, I was properly turned off by the idea.
I appreciate you sharing your insights.
I can't think of these pedicures without thinking about Dirty Dan Schneider because one of the most uncomfortable times I watched one of his shows as a kid involved them. It just felt wrong and the more I thought about my feet and everywhere they go, the less I wanted a fish to ingest the dead skin off of them. It felt cruel. The idea of living beings trapped in a small container with nothing to eat but dead skin just feels...🤢🤢🤮. I'll just stick with a pumice stone and body cream to take care of my feet. It's better that way.
The comment above you mentioned how these were popular for 12 year old girls birthday parties and my mind went to Dan Schneider having a field day .
It is unethical to starve fish for these treatments, but it is worth mentioning, that a lot of fish really enjoy eating the dead skin of mammals. Why I know? I lived in areas were you can put your feet into a lake and all the little fishies cam to nibble on your feet, they were not starving, they thought they get a special treat.
What is disgusting for us, is not necessarly disgusting for animals.
It still pretty idiotic to use fish as a beauty treatment though... as a strictly controlled medical treatment, they have value, but for beauty purposes they do not.
i could never imagine the water could be in any way hygenic, people keep putting their feet in it and the fish live in it?? the fish are gonna poop. have their own little bacteria living on them. whole little ecosystem in there D:
hygenic is a wide term, it does not mean the same as steril. Done right it can be absolutly hygenic, the water needs to be exchanged frequently, the fish need rounds of antibiotics every now and then, and of course you have to leave time between treatments with the same fish group, since most germs that affect humans cannot live on or in fish that alone will reduce the risk of infection massively... Which is why as a medical treatment for certain conditions they have a real worth... as beauty treatment I have my doubts.
After all the reason why they are of value as medical treatment, is the fact, that they fish can remove the access skin completely pain free. Which is a big deal, when you have skin that is so thick and brittle that it cracks when you move and touch hurts you. For these patients these fish give relief that other methods can hardly achieve, especcially not without pain being involved.
Y'all, just walk in the Mississippi River, fish nibble your legs and feet for free 🤢😂
Exactly 😂😂 that literal sewage river. They should swim in that canal in France like they did during the Olympics 😂🤢
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My thoughts exactly. Lol
My family is from Arkansas and as a kid we regularly went to the "crick" and had to avoid crayfish, leeches, and of course ticks in the high grass around the water.
same in the Gulf of Mexico!
I actually did this but in a little hard to get to pond in butt fuck nowhere middle of New England. The little fish nibbled at my toes and there where loons to. I had to get out tho when a very curious and very demanding catfish decided to swim up my shorts. Definitely a magical experience. Other than the fish assault.
Those poor fish don’t deserve this.
It just occurred to me that even if the water is completely purified and cleaned and sterile... once you load it up with all those fish eventually they're gonna need to poop 🤢
Aside from the risks to humans... fish are really sensitive to water temperature and Ph levels and the minerals and salts etc. If someone has done sugar scrubs and put all kinds of creams and lotions on their feet, that can't be good for the fish.
Literally nothing good can come of these fish spas that can't be achieved with safer less animal cruelty means.
The fish also would likely die if the water was completely sterile and purified.
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Not surprising whatsoever. Lirerally have several medical devices that come with heightened risks of blood stream infection and ive survived sepsis 5 times with 3 co-occuring osteomyelitis of my hip and si joint and endocarditis/septic emboli 2 other times and i was sent home from the ER almost every single time ince before coming back thw next day with full blown sepsis .... even with my medical history
I could never. Like ever. I feel so bad for Victoria.
I'm sorry, did you say bacteria can seep through 4 year old surgery wounds? WHAT?! Excuse me while I never do anything again.
Through the micro tears from the fish pulling the dead skin off, yeah.
As a fish keeper it makes so much sense that bacteria in the water causes issues, we literally add bacteria to the water (to speed up the growth of bacteria in the tank) as it forms a crucial part of a healthy ecosystem for the fish, but absolutely not for humans.
Also, I’ve never found this treatment appealing anyway.
Also is it even possible to like clean the water? Aren’t the fish pooping and stuff in there? I don’t want to touch dirty fish water, let alone dunk my feet in there
Omg they made a bit out of this on victorious and i thought it was made up nonsense on account of Schneider being a creep about feet. I didn't know people were actually doing this😂
It is absolutly possible to "sanitise" fish, but it is expensive and time consuming, because you have to swap all water, let them sit in that for a while to have as much germs die of as possible and then give them a round of antibiotics/antimycotics befor the next time they get to "work".
Most human deases cannot survive in fish, so time alone and a water swap will bring down the risk considerably allready. But because this treatment is done specifically with vulnerable people the antibiotic treatment is still necessary just to be sure.
So it is not a viable option for pure beauty treatments, as it is really expensive to keep the fish as clean as necessary, but for some skin deseases this treatment is valuable, especcially since it is associated with less pain for the patient, then other treatments, that remove access skin.
It seems having a running "stream" would be a good fix? Constantly flowing water, constantly filtered, treated daily with things like the antibiotics plus giving fish all the room to swim to keep them healthy....would be enough to ensure things are clean enough? I'm picturing like a 10 to 12 trough of flowing water, with places to sit and put your feet in on the sides. PLUS a thorough foot bath BEFORE and AFTER?
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this is something I could totally see myself doing on a whim, I had no idea the problems with it so thanks for this video!
So sad for Victoria.
They used to have a fish pedicure spot in the mall closest to me, idk if i ever saw anyone in there. Guess they were really starving 😓 poor fishies
Honestly if you need a gentle cleanse just get a soap saver. I made one myself with crochet out of cotton yarn so it's soft but not too soft. And it gives me a gentle scrub when I use the bar of soap in the shower on top of preserving the soap for longer. It almost feels like a scratch on an itch. Like not aggressively scratchy but also not dull. You don't need to go with a full on metal scrubby sponge to get a scrub. And fish sounds weird.
I feel bad for the poor fish and their enslaved labor. Justice for the fish! 😢
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Free the fish 🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠
You should never have open areas anywhere near water where fish are present, not even if it is a private fish take that you take care of. Water is the perfect medium to grow microbes, now combine that with fish waste, and you have a perfect food source for the bacteria to replicate.
Omg that poor woman Victoria needs to get checked for immune system problems too just incase 😳
Just imagine, those fish see two giant things come towards them and they bite at it because they're probably scared and hungry. Now imagine all the stress/fear poops they've done in that water that you have your feet inside. Gross.
The fish are not afraid. 😂 They have surely learend to associate feet = food, so they are only excited! 😂
I would be so scared of a fish pedicure, but I'm still curious...
sanitary issues aside (not all facilities make sure their fish are desease free because that is really hard to do) it does feel nice unless you are very tickelish... we did it as children with wild baby fish 😁
But I would not claim that it is super healthy... sometimes the fish caused minor abresions for example.
These were wierdly popular for 12 year old girls birthday parties 😭😂
WHAT???😭😭😭
ugh. i used to have 80 gallon freshwater fish tanks. got stuck by a spiny pectoral fin, almost lost my finger. coming from an old seaport, you will see many fisherman with missing fingers from that
I've never even considered it as I'm way too ticklish, and think it's animal cruelty. The hygiene aspect and wrong type of fish is a good way to dissuade others, though. Thanks as always for this interesting and educational series.
Clicked faster than you can say "fish pedicure" 😂
I remember there was one in a local shopping centre, big windows right into the little tanks and you could watch people getting their dead skin eaten off as you walked by. It was always busy too!
🤢 Poor girl, some doctors these days....
Clicked on this video so fast - I used to go to the salon that brought the "doctor fish pedicure" to the US (Yvonne). Although I could have sworn they started offering it before 2008. I thought I was still in high school when it popped up but I graduated in 2006. I never had it done because of Fish Ethics.
I never understood the appeal of this type of pedicure, but I’m an industrial hygienist.
My family lived out in the country and the only way to get water to put out housefires was to dig a pond and fill it with water. There were no fire hydrants at all where I lived. We stocked our pond with bluegill, sunfish, and crappie. But we also fed them food pellets, that looked like the tips of someones fingers or toes lol. So whenever you'd swim in the pond, they'd follow you and nibble at your toes and hands. As a little child it was traumatizing to see a gigantic school of bluegill chasing me around 🤣🤣🤣. They were super tame and would recognize family members who'd walk up to the pond's edge (they wanted food lol). And they'd follow you around, if you walked around the pond. We never ate them becase some of us kids were too attached to some of the more identifiable ones lmao.
I’ve had a few fish pedicures au natural- in some Mexico cenotes😊
Fish pedicures always gave me the ick, but I also have such ticklish feet I have a kick reflex if anyone touches them, so this is just a general nightmare for me lol.
Same lol
Same here! I've never had a pedicure as I'm afraid of kicking them in the teeth. I was tickled by my sibs until I cried so I HATE anyone touching my feet bottoms.
@@CowGirlKat8691 omg thats awful sibling behaviour! makes me wince to think of it, you poor thing!!
I visited Thailand around the same time as Victoria and these fish pedicures were EVERYWHERE there. The idea of it was a no for me. So glad I didn't try it 😢 Poor Victoria that sounds like utter agony.
I did one with my sister in Thailand. I couldn’t keep my feet in there because it was so ticklish. Now I’m really glad I couldn’t handle it. Poor fish.
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My dad and brother got this for free in Croatia a really long time ago. They were hanging around in the water and the fish just nibbled their feet and it was so weird. They thought they were food for real. I remember my dad yelled he got bit by a fish. They never touched my feet for some reason though.
We would walk by these in Cozumel, Mexico on our cruises & I was curious but scared of how 'possibly' dirty waters in the tanks as we didn't stick around to see if they changed it. Poor Victoria!!🤠
I thought these went out of fashion like ten years ago? Really good exfoliating socks cost like 15 euro and I don't have to go to an appointment
I had osteomyelitis twice in my leg had 2 ops now massive scar
My dad paid for me to hand this done 14 years ago in my local shopping centre...... i was pregnant with my eldest 😱.
It was a novel experience and no harm done but yikes!
I work at a pet store, I'm the aquatics specialist so I'm really just the fish person there and with aquariums the water has just natural good and bad bacteria in it because aquariums are ecosystems and the fish need all these bacterias in order to survive and thrive. Now for us humans these bacterias aren't necessarily a good thing, that's why whenever I have a cut on my hands I have to put liquid band aid on it no ifs and or buts. We also have signs on all of the tanks that basically says hey fish and the water they live in carry bacteria, wash your hands after interacting with fish and don't drink fish water. Now that being said if I was stupid rich I would have a pond with these guys and have my own private pedicure whenever I want and the fish will be well taken care of
My friend and I did this on a whim in London like 10 years ago and this video made me go "oh no oh god" even though, you know, it was 10 years ago 😂
Since I've seen it in 2009 in Thailand I understood it was no safety.But my ex used it (however he always was a dumb 😂)
Wasn’t this on an episode of victorious or something
Ain’t nobody touching my feet except my podologist in her hygienic practice. God bless her, she saved my life from pain of the ingrown toenail. I haven’t dared to clip my own toenails since.
I’ve been thinking about this fish pedicure for that last few weeks lol. I thought it was a fever dream. Now I feel bad for the little guys 😢
literally any time I think of this I just think of that one Victorious episode… 😂😭
Many years ago, David Bellamy a Science Professor, had a tv series. One program he was swimming in a tropical sea, cannot remember, it was so long, he was floating on his back, he was suffering from mouth herpes at the time, suddenly a small school of small fish began to nibble away at the herpes on his mouth, after which he never suffered from herpes again.
I don't believe that at all. Herpes cannot be eaten away to be cured. Herpes can stay dormant in your body for years which is why it's impossible, for now at least, to cure it. My best guess would be that he just didn't have an outbreak again 🤷♀️
before watching this, I wanted to make a wrap with homemade zaziki, salad and smoked tofu but now I'm kinda good
I’d never get this procedure done. It sounds disgusting and barbaric. I do however love a conventional pedicure. Interesting topic James ❤
girl ive seen the victorious episode
I feel justified about 10 years ago deciding this was creepy
Thanks James
Between the potential infections and the fact that in many places they starve the fish in order to get them to do it, it should honestly be banned everywhere.
I always wanted to try this but something stopped me loool
We encountered this fish in their natural environment in Mexico, where my partner soaked his feet in a cenote and really enjoyed it. Then we saw them in tiny plastic tubs on the streets of Playa del carmen… it was said to thing they were stolen from their natural habitat for someone to make a profit off them. Learning that it’s also a health hazard just adds to my dislike of this practice.
I saw this a lot in Korea. They would just be set up in shopping centers and stuff all over the country.
It grossed me out then, still grossed me out
Your stretched ears are gorgeous. I'd love to hear more about how you take care of them!
I thank you for talking about this because I never would have thought anything of it and definitely would have tried it out but I mean I've swam in rivers before, I know what it feels to have fish nibbling my toes haha I don't need to expose myself AND pay for the privilege haha
I live on a spring fed very clean lake and they do this for free if you're wading. You can't stop them lmao. I would never do this in a tank.
Before I ever heard of the fish thing, I went swimming in the Great Salt Lake. We were on vacation, I'd done a lot of walking, and I had heel blisters. I came out of the lake - and my blisters and all the dead skin was gone. Something cleaned up my feet fantastically. They were so soft for a few weeks. I'm glad I didn't know it was happening....it would have creeped me out. And swimming in that lake is the most disgusting thing I've ever done....the foot eating just makes it worse.
So... that's lady foot forever will be ticking time bomb. that's tragic
I couldn’t take it either!!
Does sound unsanitary. 😢
No thanks. Absolutely NOT sir, I said no THANKS!😮
That one Victorious episode 💀
I've, always thought I didn't want yo because of the water avd other people's scabby feet that have just come out of it, you fmdint know who's been in before
Same as you, it tickled so much I had to stop 😂
i had one, but the fish werent hungry enough ig so it did fuck all
It is very interesting.
oh lord I forgot this was a thing. good video but like i hated all 12 minute of it 🤢
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Wait does no one remember the victorious episode 😮
I'm glad to see it's banned in my state.
Just the cruelty to fish is enough to make me hate it
sorry what,,???? fish pedicures weren’t just a dan schneider universe bit?????? i genuinely thought it was something he made up and implemented in his shows like pear phones or bibble lol
For me …. IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!! 🙅♂️
oh............ NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmfao I could never!
Ive never arrived so early
Me neither! I'm the 100th like 😂😂😂
Warm water, fish, fish POO, lots of skin cells, a cut on a foot… 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Nope. Nope nope nope. Hell nope. One word…urea. 😁💜
People loosing body parts,… that’s a shark pedicure 😂😂😂
People pay for this?😂
Thank God for James and his vídeos. I love them, i always learn a lot❤
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James i don't mean to overstep but you seem a bit... gaunt? I hope everything is alright with you and your health❤ take care
he’s been getting skincare injections under his eyes so they’re a bit bruised and discolored
Twice in Thailand! They feel so nice, i loved it 😂
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Fish shit in that water...
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You lost weight, well done.
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Also, ah yes, the time honored tale of doctors blowing off women. That's why I had crippling endometriosis for over a decade