Fish Pedicure
Aim
Legal Status
Garra Rufa
Spa Resorts
- The practice is banned in several of the United States and Canadian provinces because it is believed to be unsanitary.
- "Cosmetology regulations generally mandate that tools need to be discarded or sanitized after each use. But epidermis-eating fish are too expensive to throw away". - WSJ.
- The procedure is legal in Quebec, with a few clinics in Montreal.
- To prove whether undergoing the treatment does improve skin condition.
- Survey information based on knowledge, experience and result.
Aqilah Aida & Iqbal Syiddik
Debatable Issue
- Start date: Sunday, October 18.
- End date: Sunday, November 18.
- In 2006, doctor fish spa resorts opened in Hakone, Japan, Kangal, Turkey, and Umag, Croatia, where the fish are used to clean the bathers at the spa.
- There are also spas in resorts in China, Belgium, the Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, France, Sweden and many more.
- Some fish spa fans who have gout, psoriasis, eczema, bunions and other diseases have insisted the fish cured them, adding on to the widespread debate and online first-person testimonies about the treatment's benefits and dangers.
Occurence
Debatable Issue
- Garra rufa occurs in the river basins of the Northern and Central Middle East, mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Oman.
- It is legally protected from commercial exploitation in Turkey due to concerns of overharvesting for export.
Hypothesis
- Health officials in some U.S. states, however, have closed down fish spas after warning that customers with tiny cuts or wounds have soaked themselves in the fish tanks alongside other customers who also tiny cuts or wounds are creating the possibility of receiving or transmitting infectious diseases.
- If one undergo the treatment, then one's skin condition will improve.
Doctor Fish
Fish Spa Therapy
Cute Fish Spa
Manipulated Variable
- Fish in each aquarium, age of customer and amount of water.
NS 13, Ground Floor,
Central Market, Jalan Benteng, 50050 Kuala Lumpur.
- 15 mins RM 10
- 30 mins RM 20
- 45 mins RM 30
- 60 mins RM 40
- Garra rufa, also called doctor fish, nibble fish, kangal fish and bonefish.
- Lives and breeds in the pools of some Turkish river systems and hot springs.
- In modern times, they have been integrated as a spa treatment, where they feed on the skin of patients with psoriasis.
Responding Variable
Subspecies
Legend
- G. rufa turcica
- G. rufa obtusa
- G. rufa rufa
- Two Turkish brothers from the town of Kangal stumbled across a hot spring one day and after their long walk stopped to dip their feet into the water. The moment their feet were submersed, the tiny Garra Rufa Obtusa swarmed around and began to nibble at them.
- The brothers enjoyed this massage so much that they returned on a regular basis and adopted fish spa therapy as a hobby. It is said that one of the brothers had a skin condition of the feet that he noticed was dramatically improving as a result of the Garra Rufa fish pedicure.
Fixed Variable
Methodology
- Amount of fish, types of water and types of fish.
Conclusion
Analyze data (hypothesis)
- Contact the owner of the spa.
- Make an appointment.
- Proceed with first trip of observation.
- Undergo the treatment.
- Proceed with second trip of observation.
- Survey information.
- Interview the owner of the spa.
- Proceed with third trip of observation.
- Collect and organize all data, information, pictures and video.
- The dead skin areas are exfoliated, leaving the healthy skin untouched to continue growing and repairing.
- The process is both painless, safe and strangely wonderful, leaving behind a unique pleasant tingling sensation.
- After having the treatment, the skin will look healthier and fresher.
- Based on the owner, the customers and myself, the result does prove that the skin condition improved in only one treatment.
Conclusion
- Referring back to the hypothesis, based on the information and data collected, we can conclude that the esults support the hypothesis.
- The fish spa is not designed as treatment option, only as a brief cure for symptoms such as feet pain, lightening and fading of minor scars, the release of fatigue, stress and tension also as a micro-massage to oxygenate and promote blood circulation.