We had our first scare and survived! Landon had been fussy and we couldn't figure out why. Then when I went to change his diaper, I saw hair wrapped around his middle toe and second to last toe. I tried to pull it off and it only got tighter. I started to freaked a little at first because it seemed impossible to get it off. We both kept working on getting the hair off and his little toe just got more red. I was ready to go right to the ER but good thing Chad was there and he was the calm one. We were pretty sure we got it but it was still really hard to tell because of the way the hair cut into his little toe.
We goggled 'hair wrapped around baby's toe' and discovered there is actually a medical name for it ...'baby toe tourniquet'.
One of the suggestions a doc had made was to soak the toes in nair. We did that just to make sure we got the hair. His little toe never turned purple and it's looking a lot better now but it was scary!
Sometimes the babies have to be taken to the hospital and the doctor has to cut into their little toe to release the hair! Wow!
Here's a picture of the little man's toes the next morning...
So so scary. I have a friend who had this happened and they had to go to the er to get it taken care of. Their dr said that it is common to also happen on another part of a little boys body that would be way scarier. We check for hairs at every diaper change. :-)
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