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(CelebNMusic247-News) Dr. Oz Sued:

An insomnia cure promoted by TV’s Dr. Oz left a New Jersey man with grotesque burns on his feet, a new lawsuit charges.

Frank Dietl, 76, claims Dr. Mehmet Oz’s so-called “knapsack heated rice footsie” left him debilitated instead of energized as promised.

Here’s the drop via 4UMF:

“He wound up with third-degree burns on his feet and was confined to his bed for weeks,” Dietl’s attorney, Dominick Gullo, told the Daily News on Monday.

During an April 17 episode of “The Dr. Oz Show,” the popular cardiothoracic surgeontouted a segment dubbed “Dr. Oz’s 24-Hour Energy Boost.”

Oz encouraged viewers to fill the toes of a pair of socks with uncooked rice, warm up the footwear in a microwave oven and slip them on.

“You do this and lie for about 20 minutes with those socks on in bed. The heat will divert blood to your feet,” Oz explained on the show.

“When your feet get hot, guess what happens to your body? It gets cold. Your body will automatically adjust its core temperature and as it gets cooler, you’re going to be able to sleep better because your body has to be cold in order to get sleepy,” he said.

The only warning he offered was to not get the socks too hot in the microwave.

Oz capped the segment by telling viewers, “If you do this the right way, you’ll be thanking me for years to come.”
But Dietl, the brother of former NYPD detective and TV personality Bo Dietl, was anything but thankful for the advice.

In his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, he revealed he suffers from neuropathy, or numbness in his feet, due to diabetes — a condition Oz did not address.

“There were no proper instructions or proper warnings,” Gullo said. “There were no warnings to anybody with neuropathy to not try it.”

Dietl, of Southampton, N.J., says he didn’t realize how hot the socks were until he got up in the middle of the night and tried to walk. Gullo could not specify how long Dietl left the rice-filled socks in the microwave.

Tim Sullivan, a spokesman for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, which produces “The Dr. Oz Show,” said the company could not comment until it had reviewed the lawsuit.

“However, we stand by the content in our program as safe and educational for our viewers,” Sullivan said.