Woman’s warning after hairband leaves her with horrific abscess

A woman has warned against the dangers of wearing a hair-tie on your wrist

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by Jessica Anais Rach |
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A Louisville woman had to be operated on, after developing a huge infected abscess on her wrist from wearing a hairband around her forearm.

Speaking to wlky.com she said:

"It just kept getting bigger and redder and worse

"They said I needed surgery, and thank God I caught it in time, or I could have had sepsis.

"She had a large abscess on the back of her wrist, so I basically made an incision and drained the puss all the way down," said Dr. Amit Gupta at Norton Healthcare.

Be careful, you can't put all these hair-ties around the wrist particularly because it can cause problems with the skin, it can cause infection," said Gupta.

"It could have been a whole different ballgame, once it gets into your bloodstream, people have been known to go into a coma, your body shuts down it could have been way worse," Kopp added.

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