Today, we see many fashionable nail salons cropping up in towns across the globe. Women, eager for attention, want to indulge themselves with extra-long and false nails.
However, medical experts have warned of contagion risk as long and false nails are a serious coronavirus risk because they can trap the virus beneath.
Dr Elisabeth Dancey, a British beauty and aesthetics expert at Bijoux Medispa in Belgravia, said in the press that fungi and bacteria are easily harboured under nails. She stated: ‘Long nails, nail varnish and nail extensions have always been a no-no for anybody who needs spotlessly clean hands; nurses, doctors, therapists, cooks, mothers and carers.
GP and former orthopaedic surgeon Dr Chike Emeagi, Medical Director of Hampstead Aesthetics Clinic and Dr Chike Clinics, advised that the perfect length was just above the nail tissue, adding: ‘It is advisable to cut your nails as short as possible as they harbour infection’.
Fashion is no excuse for putting lives at risk.
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