Massage can be dangerous for pregnant women: ministry

By The Nation

 

 

MASSAGE CAN be dangerous for women at different stages of their pregnancy, the Public Health Ministry warned yesterday after a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage and went into coma after getting a foot massage in Chiang Mai province.
 

“Women who are less than three months into their pregnancy should avoid massage because it may lead to miscarriage,” Dr Khwanchai Visithanon said yesterday in his capacity as deputy spokesman of the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine. 

 

Khwanchai also warned women who are over six months into their pregnancy to also be cautious about getting a massage. 

 

“Pregnant women should also only go for a massage at a place where the masseurs are qualified practitioners of traditional Thai medicine and have undergone at least 800 hours of training,” he said. 

 

He added that massage parlours approved by the Health Service Support Department were required to use masseurs with at least 150 hours of training. 

 

On Tuesday, the family of 25-year-old Wirawan Ketkesi issued a public call for help because she was still in a comatose state.

According to the family, Wirawan suffered a seizure while getting a foot massage on January 11. The masseur tried to resuscitate her before she was rushed to hospital. At the hospital, doctors discovered that she had suffered a miscarriage and surgically removed the dead foetus. However, the patient has been in coma ever since. 

 

Chiang Mai’s deputy public-health chief Waranyu Jamnongprasartporn said masseurs are required to check if their customers are pregnant or have any chronic disease before starting the massage, adding that every massage parlour is required to have a licence to operate. However, he admitted that it was not possible to check every massage parlour in the province, adding “we have conducted random checks to boost customers’ safety”. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30363668

 

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Wondering what the medical reasoning for this is...

Must have been some foot massage !!

 

 

..........he admitted that it was not possible to check every massage parlour in the province.

 

Not possible?

 

Pfffffff........

 

I dispute that there is any correlation between a foot massage and a miscarriage and coma. They will eventually find some other illness to be the cause.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

However, he admitted that it was not possible to check every massage parlour in the province,

Absolute rubbish. The BIB check them everyday when they do their brown paper bag rounds. Oh! Wait! That's the happy ending massage joints.????

2 hours ago, davehowden said:

Must have been some foot massage !!

I was under the impression, that there was a blood clot that resulted in the loss of life - nothing to do with massage, but perhaps something to do with education - ie. when to seek professional medical help... Anyways condoleances to the family and friends of the deceased - no knee jerk reaction will bring her or the unborn back.

on the news it shows her walking out the massage room and then collapsing just out of cameras view, maybe went into the coma after the op.