Toe-curling! Gruesome video captures podiatrist ‘trying not to hurt’ patient as she digs fungal bacteria from beneath his nails after two years of neglect
- WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT
- An unamed man visits Miss Foot Fixer to get a deep clean of his fungal infection
- The YouTube sensation tells him off for not committing to treatment
- She first treated him six months ago when the nails were brown and split
Gruesome footage has captured a podiatrist digging out fungal bacteria from a patient’s toenails.
Miss Foot Fixer, as she calls herself, assured the unnamed man that she would ‘try not to hurt him’.
His toenails had become so infected that they had completely detached, split and were a brownish colour.
With just a couple of months till his wedding, he sought help from Marion Yau, who works at London’s Harley Street Foot and Nail Clinic.
Fungal nail infection, medically named onychomycosis, affects up to one in four people.
In the first video six months ago, the clients toenails were so infected they were ‘completely detached’ from the toe, Miss Foot Fixer, as she calls herself, said
Although the patients’ nails looked healthier, growing out more clearly, but Miss Foot Fixer said there was ‘obviously’ still an infection to get rid of

Marion Yau, who works at London ’s Harley Street Foot and Nail Clinic, showed how a fungal nail infection had made a clients toenails so infected they were brown and split

Miss Foot Fixer, assured the unnamed man that she would ‘try not to hurt him’ as she cut away at the nails which had been infected for two years
Miss Foot Fixer started her video by recalling when she first saw the patient, showing a clip from six months ago.
His nails looked healthier, growing out more clearly, but Miss Foot Fixer said there was ‘obviously’ still an infection.
The podiatrist applied anaesthetic before cutting the top of the nail off.
She then filed the nail down with a drill in order to clean out the fungus as much as possible.
Miss Foot Fixer said she always cuts away as much of the nail as possible.
When the patient suggested that his right foot’s toenails were the worst, Miss Foot Fixer exclaimed: ‘They were all bad’.
She said the patient has been having the problem on and off for two years, possibly because he wasn’t committed to treating it.

Miss Foot Fixer said she always cuts away as much of the nail as possible, as seen pictured

Some of the nails were cut down so short that the toe bled – but the patient had a wedding in two months time and needed to be treated fast

Miss Foot Fixer filed the nail down with a drill in order to clean out the fungus as much as possible in gruesome scenes
Miss Foot Fixer warned him that he must not skip the treatment she has given him – although it is unclear what it is.
She said in the video description: ‘If a patient doesn’t want a laser or [has] gone through all other medications, then one of the treatments that will probably increase the effectiveness of other treatments is the cutting and deep cleansing of the nails which are effected with the fungal infection.’
The responsible fungus is usually the same one that causes athlete’s foot – a common infection of the skin of the feet, especially between the toes.
Sometimes fungal nails do not need treatment, but it will not go away on it’s own.
Dr Anton Alexandroff, consultant dermatologist and British Skin Foundation spokesperson, said: ‘Toenails grow very slowly.
‘Fungal infections are eradicated within three months but it takes up to 12 months for the affected toenail nail plates to grow out and to be substituted by a healthy non-affected nail plate.
‘Surgery is not necessary but it looks better cosmetically if the affected part of nail plate is removed as in this video.’