By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-08 06:43:20 | Updated at 2024-10-08 11:41:22
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A four-year-old boy in China had to have his finger amputated after his father took him to a foot massage shop to treat a fungal infection in his nail.
The boy, surnamed Lin, was taken by his father to the Luozhendong Foot Massage Parlour in southwestern China’s Chongqing Municipality, to treat an infection in his left index finger nail in July 2023, China Consumer News reported on September 26.
The shop claimed that it had a medicine called “nail removing cream”, which they said could work wonders for the boy’s problem.
They applied the cream on the boy’s infected finger nail, and bound it up with elastic bandage. The treatment cost 600 yuan (US$86).
Two days later, the father found his son’s finger had atrophied and turned black. He rushed him to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed gangrene.
The doctor said Lin’s left index finger tip had to be amputated to avoid further infections.
