TikToker says she almost lost her thumb after horror nail salon experience TIKTOK: bethjozeyA TikToker went viral after explaining how she almost got her thumb amputated following a visit to a nail salon. Content creator Beth has vowed to stick to cheap press on nails after she was hospitalised with a severe infection to the nail bed. \u201cI almost had my thumb amputated and now I only wear Kmart press on nails,\u201d she said in a video, which has amassed over 1.4 million views. It all started in 2020, when she decided to treat herself to some self-care by trying out a new nail salon. Upon arrival, Beth said the salon looked \u201cbeautiful\u201d and \u201creally clean\u201d so she had no reason to worry. However, she explained that it \u201call started to go downhill\u201d when she noticed the nail technicians were using equipment without sanitising it. She said: \u201cI noticed they would grab equipment from others bays. My best friend was sitting next to me and they would use a utensil on her then immediately swap it over to me.\u201d As this occurred just before the 2020 global health issue, The TikToker said she wasn\u2019t thinking much about sanitation. \u201cWe weren\u2019t in the mindset as a society yet of needing to be so clean,\u201d she explained. The next day, she noticed her nails had \u201creally started to ache\u201d particularly her thumb, which she compared to feeling \u201clike an ingrown nail.\u201d TikToker goes to hospital following nail pain Two days later, Beth\u2019s mother got a shock after noticing her nail, and urged her to go to the hospital. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I went to pick up a mug of coffee on my mum\u2019s outdoor table and I literally dropped it because the pressure of grabbing the mug on my thumb was too much,\u201d the TikToker added. \u201cI get in the car and drive myself to the hospital with my one thumb out, it was definitely not responsible driving,\u201d she said. A triage nurse at the hospital discovered how high Beth\u2019s temperature was, and she was subsequently admitted and diagnosed with paronychia. \u201cThey did my blood count, and it came back as such a severe infection that they immediately transferred me to the other hospital for surgery then and there, to drain this thing out of my thumb,\u201d she explained. She continued: \u201cThey said if I had left it any longer to go to the hospital it would have gotten into my bone, into my bloodstream properly and I would have ended up losing my thumb because it would have decayed my bone.\u201d Beth concluded her TikTok video by warning her viewers never to let nail technicians use unclean utensils on their nails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker says she almost lost her thumb after horror nail salon experience TIKTOK: bethjozeyA TikToker went viral after explaining how she almost got her thumb amputated following a visit to a nail salon. Content creator Beth has vowed to stick to cheap press on nails after she was hospitalised with a severe infection to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}