Teh Grauniad wrote:... One particular concern for the inspectors is a new treatment that spas are looking to import from China which involves full-body immersion in a tank of eels. – an extension of the fish pedicures that have been popular in recent years t he treatment uses a number of eels – each eel about the length of a pencil, to exfoliate a skin.
"In one case a stray eel found its way through the man's genitals and into his kidney, and he ended needing a three-hour operation," Nixon told the conference. "This is the sort of procedure that is coming your way."
The alarming example is apparently that of Zhang Nan, a 56-year-old man from Hubei province in China. "I climbed into the bath and I could feel the eels nibbling my body," Nan said shortly after the incident two years ago. "But then suddenly I felt a severe pain and realised a small eel had gone into the end of my penis."
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