Foot Detox

[country mom]

I work with some people here (nurses, even) who buy into this "foot detox" thing. You put your feet into an electrical water bath with some salt and it "draws out toxins through your feet". Just curious, how can a nurse, who has been educated on the physiology of metabolism and excretion, believe that the body will eliminate any kind of heavy metal, or so-called "toxin" through the skin?! I asked the "believers" what kind of "toxins" are eliminated, but they couldn't tell me. Went on quackwatch.org and they had an article on it. It just bugs me that other nurses would believe this stuff. Also googled the company that makes these machines and they don't say exactly what is being "drawn out" either. Am I wrong, or does anyone know of evidence that these things actually work, because if they do, I have to go back and re-learn human physiology.

[hypocaffeinemia, BSN, RN]

^Exactly.

Digoxin and Atropine are all-natural and come from pretty flowers.

[ASSEDO]

Detox by using foot pads is an interesting concept. However, I have seen physicians give too much meds and we had to detox the patient by "medication vacation, " and the Quacks goes on.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

I put those foot pads right up there with ear candling.

I did ear candling on my husband one time, when he was complaining his ears felt clogged ... so there I was, with a flaming, paraffin-wrapped, fabric torch inserted in my husband's ear through a hole in an aluminum pie plate (to catch any ash, of course!), and I realized that it was completely absurd. There, I admitted it ... I'm a reformed one-time ear-candler.

[country mom]

Fools and their money are soon parted...

Don't blame the person that takes advantage of the fool... :)

Poop?

:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

[country mom]

It annoys me too. It is the same with those fad diets where the people drink maple syrup and lemon juice to "detoxify." I must be really toxic because I've never ever detoxified.

Had a co-worker who did that one- for 3 weeks! A diabetes educator too- who is supposed to advise other people on healthy eating. I didn't have to get on my soap-box though, after 3 weeks, she lost NO weight (which was her original goal).

[Dolce, RN]

Had a co-worker who did that one- for 3 weeks! A diabetes educator too- who is supposed to advise other people on healthy eating. I didn't have to get on my soap-box though, after 3 weeks, she lost NO weight (which was her original goal).

A diabetes educator!?!

[ToxicShock]

Poop?

Doesn't your body expel that naturally? I mean, I'm not a doctor or anything, but I always heard poop typically comes out on its own.

[country mom]

My whole soap box routine had to do with a health fair we're planning at our facility and someone got the idea to invite the practioner of foot detox (not a medical person of any sort) to come and CHARGE people for her services. I just think it's wrong to charge people for a service, provided under the roof of the hospital, when there is NO scientific evidence at all that the treatment is effective. If it does in fact remove toxins, it wouldn't be hard to prove, just test the water- like for lead, orificenic, mercury and all the others it claims to remove (even parasites). But no such evidence exists.

[rph3664]

Doesn't your body expel that naturally? I mean, I'm not a doctor or anything, but I always heard poop typically comes out on its own.

It's supposed to, and a colon cleanse makes it come out faster - WAY faster.

Did anyone see Suzanne Somers on the Larry King show a few years ago? She was talking about using human growth hormone and small doses of testosterone "because of all the toxins in our environment." And you don't think those things are potentially toxic too, Suzanne? It scared me to think that people might watch things like this and assume she knows what she's talking about.