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Ionic Footbath treatments: Detoxifying to the body, or simply a deep cleaning of one's bank account?

(PRWEB) January 30, 2006

In Blue Water Spa's latest newsletter, a detoxifying ionic foot bath treatment is evaluated after a demonstration in the spa.

These treatments claim to release toxins through one's feet while immersed in water. According to the representative who visited Blue Water Spa, this device claims to help from everything from arthritis to cancer.

Various colors in the water following a treatment may indicate what kind of detoxification has taken place. After a demonstartion in her spa, Law learned that the water turned various colrs and bubbled up whether or not feet were immersed in the water.

Law is a believer in homeopathy and is open-minded about some alternative therapies. One article in the same newsletter has to do with homeopathy. Law says, "Neither of my children have ever eaten a jar of commercial baby food. I have prepared all their food myself, primarily from organic foods. I have given them both homeopathic remedies from the time they were infants for things like teething pain, rashes, fevers, etc."

The woman providing the demonstration mentioned several times the positive effects this treatment can have on children with autism. Kile was sickened by the thought of practitioners purchasing any device without adequate medical evidence to back its' claims and promoting it to parents who are desperately looking for anything available that might help a child with a health concern.

Blue Water Spa takes very seriously the responsibility of evaluating products and devices for safety and efficacy. it is very challenging for even the most savvy and educated consumer to determine the difference beween a peer reviewed medical journal and a magazine with no medical advisory board.

Source:  http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb339277.htm

Coloured bubbly water as a cure, of course! :roll:

My favourite line was:

Law learned that the water turned various colors and bubbled up whether or not feet were immersed in the water.

It's easy to laugh at those who are taken in by quacks, but desperate people can easily be persuaded to grasp at straws by skilled confidence tricksters.

The law should come down harshly on them in my opinion.

I think so too, Amy.

In this case the hocus-pocus is easy to spot, but where it is dressed up in intricate layers of pseudo-science like ABA, Secretin, and chelation, it would be far from easy to mount a successful prosecution on the basis of simple fraud.

I think early last year there was an official group started in the UK that was supposed to monitor things peddled as autism cures and therapies, but I haven't heard anything of them since.

Well, we're monitoring it, Amy.  :smile:

As best we can -  :roll:

I had two of the Ionic footbaths. The first went fine. At the beginning of the second one, the artery in my neck began to twitch right after the girl put the electronic device into the water. The next day it was still twitching and my lower lip started twitching. THEN by the next day the entire side of my face was numb. I am seeing a neurologist tomorrow. Don't know if this is what caused it, but very suspicious.