“For years, you’ve probably been wearing hair ties on your wrist, stacked nearly like bracelets”, a post at Teen Vogue observes. Putting a hair tie around your wrist is something you do without thinking, and certainly without thinking there will be any severe consequences.
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Just about every single woman we know wears hair ties around their wrist when their hair isn’t up in a ponytail or bun.
A woman is recovering from an infection on her wrist, that doctors say was caused in part by a glittery hair-tie. At first, she didn’t think anything of it, but the bump continued to grow. “It kept getting bigger, redder and worse”. “Obviously she was getting to the point that if she had waited for a day or two”, it could have been bad.
“I thought it was a spider bite or something, not from hair ties”, Kopp told WLKY. The surgery was fairly simple, as it basically involved cutting open the lump and letting the pus out.
“She had a large abscess on the back of her wrist”. The ties trapped bacteria which then got in through her pores.
Kopp said she’s not going to wear hear-ties on her wrists anymore. If she hadn’t visited the hospital when she did, the infection could have turned into sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by bacteria in the bloodstream.
Kopp added that if she hadn’t caught the infection early on, there could’ve been catastrophic results.
It’s something that most people will do for convenience and ease when they need a hair tie, but Audrey Koop ended up needing emergency surgery.
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Almost two weeks ago, Audree Kopp was in the middle of moving into her new home.
