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.