A forgotten hepatitis source and a prevention

How shared tools can stop spreading manicure infections.
By: hans muller, university of rhode island mba, engineer and inventor. Advisor: dr. Carlos roberto viana milward de andrade, m.D. - crm 5251502-7, work medicine and dermatologist. Rio de janeiro, brazil

It is a global public health problem. 500 million people are already carrying one of the hepatitis b, c, etc. Viruses. Most do not know it. Millions will soon need expensive treatments and die due to missing alerts and options. U.S. Veterans and certain city areas have expressive number of infected people. Around 1.5 millions die every year and governments and health authorities are lacking to start alerting campaigns to prevent these infections. Contaminations through shared manicure, pedicure, piercing, tattooing (ink), podiatry needles and instruments are frequent. Even shared razors, sniffing straws, crack pipes, injections and toothbrushes infect people. In less extend acne extractions and hair electrolysis also infect. The only method to right sterilize shared tools is by using an autoclave but, only when the whole process is correctly done. It is a long and expensive process to do it right.

In manicure and pedicure, when nails are only painted or cut not to close to the nails` bed, there is no contamination risk. But, millions do sophisticated nail cares, or treat sick nails and skin, where lacerations are frequent and micro-cuts or nicks can get infected through micro-particles of lymph, blood or serum exposures. In these cases, all sterilization means besides autoclaves, are not reliable, tools can infect like in medical or dental procedure. If so many ordinary infections are contaminating people, and these procedures involve cuts and nicks, how can someone avoid hepatitis, when tools are not right sterilized? Millions are being contaminated with bacteria, fungi and viruses. Disease like nail fungi (mycosis), warts, herpes, paronychias, piogenic granuloma, erysipelas, hepatitis c, b, d, or g and other infections are rising. Once a person contracts one of these hepatitis viruses, it takes an average of 4 months for the first antibodies to appear in the blood and about 20 years for an illness to develop into a liver cirrhosis or cancer. This time factor makes a diagnosis difficult and is the main reason for so few prevention and research. The worst, the rising number of infected people is always more contaminating others, even through manicure tools. These viruses are hard to kill and survive normal sanitations. Some viruses were discovered in the last 20 years.

Users need effective sanitary rules to prevent them from new contaminations. Infections are rising, and sterilization through the correct use of autoclaves must be the only acceptable method. Urgently new rules are necessary, users need more protection!

The solutions to prevent these risks are: people should only use, their own strictly personal, or disposable or correctly autoclaved tools. But, for most users and nail technicians these 3 alternatives are too expensive and complicate, a real problem until now.

Face to these limitations, an appropriate solution to prevent cross-contaminations, is to use a simple and inexpensive alternative that minimizes and can nullify health damages to individuals and communities. A solution that benefits all societies and nail technicians, is a tool of easy handling, hygienic, that facilitates finger, nail and cuticle care, and is of low cost. It is a small and complete kit that does nail care fast, perfectly, and in a safe manner. It is a device, when used as a personal tool avoids contracting third people`s diseases, finishing with this contamination risk. A tool when blades are worn-out, it is cheaper to repurchase a new one, than to resharpen any tool, than to buy a pricey separated instrument or to autoclave tools in use or kept in stock. It also offers the best, fastest and cheapest alternative to implant prevention of cross-infections. This tool needs a first class metallurgy to manufacture it. Advertisements focusing on prevention of illness will scale it’s sales in the worldwide market, compensating the high initial manufacturing costs. More details on this safe tool that makes saver nail cares, please visit the web-site: http://www.Mullerhans.Com