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1 in 10 is Nail Salons with hepatitis B or C

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Study shows that professionals in the beauty salons do not take security measures and may endanger their health and customers
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One in ten manicure or pedicure of São Paulo is contaminated by the virus of hepatitis B or C, says study sponsored by unpublished State Department of Health were analyzed blood samples from 100 participants, half of whom worked in shopping malls and the other half in the beauty salons located in different districts of the capital. Ten professionals were positive for hepatitis - eight of them with the virus of type B and two others for the type C.
 
According to Schunck Andréia Deneluz Cristine de Oliveira, Emílio Ribas Institute of the nurse, the big problem is that the professionals use the same instrument to draw their own cuticle. How in general do not take care of biosecurity is likely to be contaminated with hepatitis and are also transmitting the virus to their customers, since the transmission occurs when contaminated materials are shared and not sterilized.
 
The research also shows that only 26% of Nail Salons in instrumental form with autoclave sterilization (clean with soap under pressure), considered the safest method. 54% use other glass, 8% used Forninho the kitchen, which is totally incorrect, and 2% simply not using any method.
 
According Andréia, another problem found was the lack of hygiene after the procedures. While 74% of professionals stated that they always wash their hands before and after you hand and foot of the customers, no one has adopted this procedure as the researcher remained in the room observing the service.
 
Nail Salons Of the 100 interviewed, 72% know the ways of transmission of hepatitis B, and 85% did not know how to catch hepatitis C. The virus of hepatitis B and C are transmitted through contaminated equipment, without need for bleeding. It is important to recall that the hepatitis B virus, for example, survived seven days at room temperature.
 
Get smart before you make your hands or feet in manicure:
* make sure pliers and spatulas are properly sterilized
* if the sticks are disposable and sandpapers
* if towels are used for individual use
* observe the hygiene of the place
* is a manicure and washed their hands between a client and another




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