should diabetics get pedicures?

Answer 1

Cover All Your Bases First!!

Discuss pedicure options with your doctor and customize an appropriate procedure to guide your service provider.

Before getting a pedicure, inspect the salon for cleanliness and proper licensing. Inform your service provider that you have diabetes and discuss the salon’s service and disinfection procedures.

Follow your instincts, if something seems wrong, it probably is.

The enjoyment a pedicure offers should never compromise good health. It should enhance your appearance, comfort and well-being. In unskilled, untrained hands, a pedicure can be just the beginning on a long road of health complications for you. Making the right choice can make all the difference.

Be selective, be aware and enjoy.

What to Look for at Your Salon


Cleanliness:

Trash: receptacles emptied and covered.

Floors and work surfaces: clean and tidy.

Smell: fresh and clean, or dirty and heavily perfumed? Trust your nose.

Disinfection containers should be visible and containing clean, translucent solutions. Cloudy solutions are ineffective and contaminated. Your service provider should be able to show you the state regulations about the appropriate cleansing solutions upon request. In California, for example, the requirement is for quaternary ammonium solutions. In times past less effective alcohol solutions had been used.

Service provider: Should be neat, professional, clean, wash hands frequently and wear gloves.

Prominently displayed licenses for the salon and service providers.

MOST IMPORTANTLY - As a diabetic, you need to take extra precautions when getting foot treatments, because any break in the skin can increase the risk of cellulitis. These can potentially be caused by aggressive trimming of a callus or cuticle. So please do inform your nail technician about diabetes or any other pre-existing conditions - all responsible spas would want to know this information.

Answer 2

I love the I don't see why not answers ... if you don't know don't say. It is actually NOT recommended that diabetics get pedicures in salons and such because the cleaning process of the tools used is not usually sanitary. Perfectly healthy people can end up with horrible infections from pedicures and for a diabetic this is a very nasty situation. If you chose to get a pedicure go to a place that you know is a very clean establishment and ask that the tools be cleaned while you are there watching and be sure that they know to be careful because you are diabetic. It is also recommended that if you have one done that you bring your own supplies. If you are diabetic and are considering getting a pedicure just talk with your Endocrinologist and or podiatrist they may have recommendations. I am not going to say that diabetes don't ever get pedicures and turn out fine but it's one of those things that is not recommended just like doctors don't want you walking around outside barefoot when you are diabetic either.

I know as a non diabetic that when I have had manicures and pedicures they are often rough and cause my cuticles to bleed. Any open wound on your feet as a diabetic can be cause for real concern and combined with the use of un-sterile equipment you could end up with a serious problem.

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Answer 5

You should have a through check up by your doctor or podiatrist before having a pedicure. If your circulation is good, your sugar is under control and you do not have any nerve damage than a pedicure might be OK. I say ,"might" because you also need to advise the pedicurist to not cut your skin or cuticles. If you get cut your risk for infection is higher than a non diabetic. Having your nails polished and filed is not a problem.

Answer 6

There is no reason why not. However, certain extra precautions should be taken, especially if you have any loss of sensation in the feet or toes.

1. Inform your manicurist that you are diabetic, and ask that she alert you to any breaks in your skin, cuts, bruises or other signs of injury.

2. Bring your own nail polish and make sure it is fresh (less than 6 months old). Nail polish is a place that nail fungus can grow, and thus be transferred from person to person.

3. Check your nails carefully (and truly your feet and legs) during your self-check for the next few weeks, just in case the manicurist breaks the skin.

Enjoy.

Answer 7

Yes, if possible. Just make very sure to go to someone who knows what he/she is doing. My mom almost died when she had a pedicure and got an infection from it. Good foot care is extremely important for any diabetic.

Answer 8

Diabetics have difficulty HEALING, especially in the EXTREMITIES.

Therefore, ANY unnecessary *cutting* of the extremities is to be avoided.

When I ran our hospital's education division, there had been a NURSE there who took it as her JOB to go to the different patient rooms and treat the diabetics' feet, in the sense of elemental nail TRIMMING, which is--of course--ESSENTIAL for ALL of us. But asking a NON-medical person to take that care with feet of someone that susceptible is, to my view, unrealistic.

There is nothing wrong with a diabetic trimming her OWN nails, with CLEAN tools (could be placed in boiling water to sterilize), and painting the nail AFTER any nick has had opportunity to seal itself, but beyond that, I would think NO, anything beyond that seems simply not in her best interest.

And THOUSANDS of those who DO get pedicures each year get fungal infections, even infections with flesh-eating staph, from practitioners' failure to Autoclave their instruments! NO temporary *beauty* effect is worth THAT! :(

Answer 9

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Answer 10

It should be OK as long as you let the shop know you are diabetic and to not cut the cuticles off but just trim the nails and massage... diabetics generally have bad circulation in the legs and massages are great!