A Kentucky woman developed a life-threatening infection on her wrist after using a common hair product. Audrey Kopp was moving into her new home when she first noticed a bump on her wrist. When it started to grow, she went to the doctor to have it checked out.
Audrey’s doctor prescribed her antibiotics, but the bump kept getting worse. Finally, Audrey decided to undergo surgery. She explained, “They said I needed surgery, and thank God I caught it in time, or I could have had sepsis.”
Bacteria from a hair tie that Audrey kept on her wrist found its way into her pores and hair follicles, which caused a severe infection. Dr. Amit Gupta performed Audrey’s surgery. “She had a large abscess on the back on her wrist, so I basically made an incision and drained the puss all the way down,” he said.
Audrey was shocked at the cause of the infection. “I didn’t believe it at first,” she said. “I thought that it was a spider bite, or something else, not from wearing hair ties.”
Audrey said she won’t wear hair ties on her wrist anymore. “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 an infection,” she said. “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.”
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