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Many women and girls keep a hair tie handy by wearing it around their wrist when they are not using it.
Audree Kopp, a woman from Kentucky, had been wearing a sparkly hair tie on her wrist when she noticed a bump that became red, raised and continued to grow. First she was prescribed antibiotics, but the bump kept getting worse and she eventually ended up in an emergency room.
“I didn’t believe it at first, I thought that it was a spider bite, or something else, not from wearing hair-ties,” Kopp told WLKY News. “They said I needed surgery and thank God I caught it in time or I could have had sepsis.”
Doctors say the glittery hair tie Kopp had on her wrist was carrying a bacteria. The bacteria infected her arm through her pores and hair follicles – causing three types of infection.
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Woman needs surgery after hair tie on her wrist leads to infection | Globalnews.ca
Many women and girls keep a hair tie handy by wearing it around their wrist when they are not using it.
Audree Kopp, a woman from Kentucky, had been wearing a sparkly hair tie on her wrist when she noticed a bump that became red, raised and continued to grow. First she was prescribed antibiotics, but the bump kept getting worse and she eventually ended up in an emergency room.
“I didn’t believe it at first, I thought that it was a spider bite, or something else, not from wearing hair-ties,” Kopp told WLKY News. “They said I needed surgery and thank God I caught it in time or I could have had sepsis.”
Doctors say the glittery hair tie Kopp had on her wrist was carrying a bacteria. The bacteria infected her arm through her pores and hair follicles – causing three types of infection.
Video:
Woman needs surgery after hair tie on her wrist leads to infection | Globalnews.ca