Australian woman's toes amputated after fish spa pedicure on holiday

 Australian woman's toes amputated after fish spa pedicure on holiday.

Yahoo News Australia (and agencies).

14 September 2018.

澳大利亚女子度假时做鱼疗足疗后脚趾被截肢。

 澳大利亚雅虎新闻（和机构）。

 2018 年 9 月 14 日。

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: An Australian woman was left devastated after an indulgent Thai holiday fish spa turned into a living nightmare when an infected fish tank led to all five toes on her right foot being amputated.

警告，图片内容：一名澳大利亚妇女在享受泰国假日鱼疗后变成了一场活生生的噩梦，因为受感染的鱼缸导致她右脚的五个脚趾全部被截肢。

Property manager Victoria Curthoys, 29 from Perth contracted an infection in her big toe after stepping on glass, resulting in doctors amputating half of her toe.

来自珀斯的 29 岁物业经理维多利亚·柯托伊斯 (Victoria Curthoys) 在踩到玻璃后大脚趾感染，导致医生截掉了她的半个脚趾。

Four years later, while on holiday in Thailand in 2010, Victoria used one of the ever-popular fish spas whereby small freshwater fish feed off and remove the foot’s dead skin.

四年后，2010 年，维多利亚在泰国度假时，使用了一种非常受欢迎的鱼疗中心，小淡水鱼以小淡水鱼为食，并去除脚上的死皮。

The fish spa treatment, which has soared in popularity over the past decade, involves placing one's feet in a tank containing hundreds of Garra rufa, a small species of cyprinid fish native to rivers, ponds, streams and lakes in West Asia and Anatolia.

鱼疗在过去十年中迅速流行，其中包括将脚放入装有数百条 Garra rufa 的水箱中，Garra rufa 是一种小型鲤鱼，原产于西亚和安纳托利亚的河流、池塘、溪流和湖泊。

Once human's feet enter the water, the fish immediately congregate around patches of dead skin to feed, eventually leaving them silky smooth. Fish pedicures are also believed to alleviate the symptoms of eczema and psoriasis.

一旦人类的脚进入水中，鱼立即聚集在死皮周围进食，最终使它们变得丝滑光滑。 鱼足疗也被认为可以缓解湿疹和牛皮癣的症状。

The fish spa treatment gave Victoria another infection, this time to the bone of her big toe, from a waterborne bug only found in Thailand, which had seeped through the wounds from her earlier surgery.

鱼疗给维多利亚带来了另一次感染，这次是她的大脚趾骨，这是一种仅在泰国发现的水生细菌，这种细菌是从她之前手术的伤口中渗入的。

Upon returning to Perth, Victoria was forced to see doctors after the infection left her with fevers and sickness.

返回珀斯后，维多利亚因感染导致发烧和生病，被迫去看医生。

After a year of tests, a doctor eventually diagnosed her with osteomyelitis, a rare and serious condition involving infection of the bone.

经过一年的检查，医生最终诊断她患有骨髓炎，这是一种涉及骨骼感染的罕见而严重的疾病。

Despite her declining state of health, it took doctors over a year to diagnose the disease as Schwelmenella, an infection which eats away at the bone, eventually forcing doctors to amputate the entire big toe in December 2012.

尽管她的健康状况每况愈下，医生还是花了一年多的时间才诊断出她的疾病为舒韦尔门氏菌（Schwelmenella），这是一种侵蚀骨头的感染，最终迫使医生在 2012 年 12 月截掉了整个大脚趾。

Two years later, Curthoy's big toe on her right foot had to be amputated to contain the disease. However, it didn't get rid of the infection fully. The doctors then told Curthoys she had no choice but to remove all the remaining toes on her right foot—a procedure that took five years to complete.

两年后，柯索伊的右脚大脚趾不得不被截肢以控制病情。 然而，它并没有完全消除感染。 医生随后告诉柯索伊斯，她别无选择，只能切除右脚所有剩余的脚趾——这个手术花了五年时间才完成。

After the initial infection was removed through amputation, the pressure of walking on her smaller toes left Victoria with rough calluses and further infections, eventually leading to Victoria’s other four toes being removed over the course of the next five years.

在通过截肢去除最初的感染后，用小脚趾行走的压力使维多利亚长满了粗糙的老茧和进一步的感染，最终导致维多利亚的其他四个脚趾在接下来的五年内被切除。

“When I was 17 years old I received a cut on the bottom of my big toe after cutting it on some glass,” said Victoria.

“当我 17 岁的时候，我的大脚趾底部被玻璃割伤了，”维多利亚说。

“I didn’t notice it was cut as it was on the bottom of the toe and not causing me any pain.

“我没有注意到它被割伤了，因为它位于脚趾底部，没有给我带来任何疼痛。

“It took me a while to realise it was there so by that time I already had an infection in the bone, so the doctors amputated half of the big toe.

“我花了一段时间才意识到它在那里，所以那时我的骨头已经感染了，所以医生切除了一半的大脚趾。

“Then when I was in Thailand I decided to use a fish spa. I thought nothing of it as I’d watched the owner set up the system and it looked very clean, but how wrong I was.

“然后，当我在泰国时，我决定使用鱼疗。 我没有多想，因为我看到业主设置了系统，看起来很干净，但我错了。

“I ended up getting another bone infection in my big toe and it took doctors over a year to figure out what type of bug I had. By the time they’d realised what it was, my entire toe bone had been eaten away and I’d been suffering from sickness the whole time.

“我的大脚趾最终再次出现骨感染，医生花了一年多的时间才弄清楚我感染的是哪种细菌。 当他们意识到那是什么时，我的整个脚趾骨都被吃掉了，而且我一直在生病。

“They eventually decided to take the big toe off completely. I felt relieved that I could go back to my life without being sick all the time and I was determined to get better, so I could show the doctors I had been right the whole time.

“他们最终决定完全去掉大脚趾。 我感到很欣慰，因为我可以回到原来的生活，不再一直生病，而且我决心变得更好，这样我就可以向医生证明我一直都是对的。

“A year of walking without a big toe caused ulcers on the second toe from the pressure placed on it. It had a rough callus over the top, but I was unaware that underneath that there was another raging infection.

“一年没有大脚趾行走导致第二个脚趾因压力而溃疡。 它的顶部有一个粗糙的愈伤组织，但我没有意识到下面还有另一种严重的感染。

“This time, the doctors took the second toe and left me with three toes.

“这一次，医生拿走了第二个脚趾，只剩下三个脚趾。

“I was healthy for another two years, I thought I was very lucky to still have my foot and carried on with my life. But then I started to get sick again.

“我又健康了两年，我认为我很幸运，我的脚还活着，并继续我的生活。 但后来我又开始生病了。

“Every morning I would be vomiting and constantly had a fever, but X-rays weren’t showing any signs of infections, so the doctors fobbed it off for a long time and they told me it was all in my head.

“每天早上我都会呕吐，并且不断发烧，但X光检查没有显示任何感染迹象，所以医生很长一段时间都隐瞒了我的情况，他们告诉我这都是我的想法。

“It wasn’t until my podiatrist ordered blood samples that they realised that I did in fact have another bone infection and I had a very high white blood cell count. This was why I was feeling so terrible.

“直到我的足病医生订购了血液样本，他们才意识到我实际上确实患有另一种骨骼感染，而且我的白细胞计数非常高。 这就是为什么我感觉如此糟糕。

“In November 2016 my doctors took the third and fourth toes, but for some reason they left the small toe.

“2016 年 11 月，我的医生取走了第三和第四个脚趾，但由于某种原因，他们留下了小脚趾。

“Because the little toe was the only one left, I kept knocking it and when I walked, and all the pressure would go onto the little toe.

“因为只剩下小脚趾了，所以我一直敲它，走路的时候所有的压力都会转移到小脚趾上。

“Last year I noticed my small toe wasn’t looking very happy and there was some liquid on my sock, but I couldn’t see any cuts.

“去年，我注意到我的小脚趾看起来不太高兴，袜子上有一些液体，但我看不到任何伤口。

“After a few blood samples and more X-rays, they discovered another bone infection, so they finally took the last toe in November 2017.”

“在采集了一些血样和更多的 X 光检查后，他们发现了另一种骨头感染，所以他们终于在 2017 年 11 月取走了最后一个脚趾。”

Despite losing all of her toes, Victoria is glad to no longer suffer from infectious diseases and she wants to warn others against using the fish spas which caused her so much devastation.

尽管失去了所有的脚趾，维多利亚很高兴不再患有传染病，她想警告其他人不要使用鱼疗，因为鱼疗给她带来了如此多的伤害。

“I can honestly say that my foot has never been as healthy as it is now. Now I can put pressure on my foot,” said Victoria.

“我可以诚实地说，我的脚从来没有像现在这样健康。 现在我可以对脚施加压力了，”维多利亚说。

“Now and again I tend to trip because of the lack of feeling and having to get used to not having any toes, but I’ve been very lucky to be able to just get back up and walk.

“有时我会因为缺乏感觉而绊倒，并且不得不习惯没有脚趾，但我很幸运能够重新站起来行走。

“My parents are proud of me and my friends think I’m awesome because I’ve been through a lot, but at the end of the day I’ve seen people with far worse injuries and life-altering illnesses, so I consider myself lucky.

“我的父母为我感到骄傲，我的朋友们认为我很棒，因为我经历了很多事情，但归根结底，我看到人们受到更严重的伤害和改变生活的疾病，所以我认为自己 幸运的。