A piece of spicy fish with a bag of dollars, is it a small fish retired by a foot therapy shop?Intersection

When you taste the spicy little fish in your hand, you are dried ... staring at the delicious fish in your hand, why suddenly feel familiar ...?

not good! This is exactly the same as the small fish in the foot therapy shop I went last weekend? Intersection

Source 丨 a shopping website

It is precisely because Xiaoyu Gan was always mistaken for the "waiter" who retired in the foot therapy store, so there was a small fish boss who simply teased: "Yes, and the taste is more fragrant."

Source 丨 Network

So what kind of fish is the fish in the foot therapy shop? Is it really the last moment of burning his life, and after retirement, became a delicious fish (foot odor)?

The little fish with legs really becomes a small fish that can be eaten? Source 丨 Screenshot of sketches

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What kind of fish is a small fish?

Hot spring fish therapy originated in Turkey, referring to small fish that can tolerate hot spring hot water in the hot spring, so that small fish pecks the dead skin of people to relax and health care.

The "Dr. Fish" in the hot spring water is mostly Garra Rufa and Cyprinion Macrostomus. These rivers and lakes "fish", known as "kiss fish", have no teeth and will not bite people. The length of body length is usually 2 ~ 6cm. It lives in warm water at 20 ~ 43 ° C. , Excrement, bacteria in pores, and microorganisms that some people are invisible to the naked eye.

Light red cut fish

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However, light red cut fish was included in the Red List of Endangered Species by the World Nature Protection Alliance (IUCN) as early as 2018. Coupled with the cost of the small fish from a distance and the death of the breeding process, we It is difficult to see the "Dr. Fish" native to Turkey in the foot therapy shop.

Little Fish

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In fact, in many foot therapy shops, the small fish used for legs is not the above -mentioned pale red cut fish and large nodes, but it is cheaper and more cheap and more resistant to the high temperature. Compared with the previous two, Luo Feiyu is cheaper and the breeding cost is lower, so it has become a "replacement" of many foot therapy shops instead of the genuine "Dr. Fish".

As for the dried snacks that everyone likes, most of them are conventional edible types such as catfish, silverfish or jade band fish that are more produced and more convenient to process. Under normal circumstances, the retired legs of the foot therapy store Fish will not appear in snack packaging.

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Can fish therapy really healthy?

Luo Fei fish with your feet

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When you go to the fish therapy shop, merchants usually declare that hot spring fish therapy can remove dead skin, cure foot, beauty and beauty, treatment and detoxification. According to the store's declaration, the secretions in the mouth of "Kiss Fish" seem to be able to play a role in anti -inflammatory and sterilization, which is conducive to the human body fully absorbing the minerals in the water. Secondly, fish therapy can also relieve fatigue. While "kissing" the foot, small fish will stimulate the nervous system of the foot, promote the blood circulation of the whole body, let the pores of the human body open, and promote the discharge of toxins on the foot. And when the small fish sucks your feet, stimulating the epidermal nerve is equivalent to a painless fitness.

So, does the magical effect of merchants really exist?

Source ｜ Wikipedia Encyclopedia

The little fish sucked and eaten, just a few of them falling off the keratin, that's all. The fungus that causes the athletes does not grow on the stratum corneum, but in the leather. Therefore, there is no way to eat fungi in any case, "healing foot" is impossible. So far, no clear research can be confirmed that fish therapy is effective for treating fungal infections.

To say that hot spring fish therapy really has a health effect, it is also the role of the hot spring itself. It contains rich trace elements and minerals. It can indeed improve physical fitness under the action of constant bubbles, especially for rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, gout, etc. It has a certain effect.

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How many feet did the fish in the fish therapy kissed?

Since the merchants usually do not actively feed them, the small fish are generally in a state of hunger and food, so they do not refuse everyone’s feet. Whether it is fragrant feet or foot. Looking at the customer as "food", as long as you have your feet, you will support it.

However, this has also caused some problems. Due to cost considerations, fish therapy shops can not be a disposable product, and because it is a living thing, it is difficult to perform chemical disinfection directly. Therefore Provide the same batch of "waiters", which undoubtedly increases the potential risks of fish therapy.

It is often difficult to detect the tiny wounds on their bodies, and there are indeed customers who do not talk about hygiene, and put unclean feet directly into the pool. Therefore, if the skin is infected or wounds, the fish mouth may be contaminated with harmful microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi. After changing another group of customers, the "indirect kiss" of the small fish is likely to cause cross -infection.

Plantar wart picture

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Skin diseases such as plantar warts, ordinary warts, flat warts and other skin diseases may be indirectly spread through bite fish. This is not alarmist. According to the US Department of Health and the Marine Fisheries Administration, through the United States, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Nearly a hundred cases studied that patients with fish bite may be contaminated with bacteria, and then bite others will cause cross infection. As a result, the "fish therapy" pool that occurs appeared in cases and issued early warning to the society.

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