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Toe tourniquet trama!

raebee18raebee18 member
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So I haven't posted in awhile, working mom stressful job...excuses I mainly lurk so sorry if this has been mentioned before but I thought I'd share my tama of the day since I wasn't familiar with this until today. So I'm getting ready to change Claire into her pjs and I pull off her sock and she starts wailing! I couldn't figure out what was wrong but then I noticed her ring toe( not sure if that's a thing) was super red and swollen upon further investigation I notice that she had a hair wrapped around it and her middle toe. I tried to pull it off BIG MISTAKE that made it much worse. At this point I'm freaking out she's freaking out so I yelled for my husband. I ended up having to hold her keg down while he cut the hair off with a knife, thank god he has steady hands and is a nice cube under pressure. Long story longer I gave her some Tylenol for the pain cleaned it up and out ointment on it and she's finally asleep after all that trama. I called the afterhours nurse to see if I should bring her in to get the toe checked out since the hash was pretty deep. When the doc called me back he said this was unfortunately fairly common as moms enter the hair loss phase of post partum life and to be extra diligent about checking toes fingers and on makes penises for thus problem. He also told me to verify all the hair was off if not she could lose the strangled appendage. As if I'm not paranoid enough but knowing I almost got DD's toe amputated was traumatic! I have to check tomorrow once the selling has gone down to assess the cut but the toe is back to pink and the discomfort is gone so he said I'm probably in the clear, just a word of caution to the other mamas with massive hair loss watch your LO's digits!
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  • Helmink0804Helmink0804 member
    That's scary! Sorry it happened to you- but thanks for posting so the rest of us will be aware/more aware of loose hair strands and baby toes and fingers!

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    So sorry you had to experience this. How scary! Thanks for sharing.
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  • spinsoffresonancespinsoffresonance member
    That sounds really scary. I heard that's the first thing the ER checks for in babies with unexplained crying for hours. I'm having crazy hair loss the last couple weeks, got to remember to check those toes!
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  • spacepotatoesspacepotatoes member
    edited October 2014
    We had a night a couple of months ago where LO wouldn't settle back to sleep. It wasn't until I changed her in the morning that I noticed a hair wrapped around three of her toes. Lesson learned! I try to check every diaper change.

    Glad your LO is ok!
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  • raebee18raebee18 member

    Update:

     

    So after a sleepless night, mommy guilt is the worst, I woke up and checked her toes again in the morning. The one that had the bad cut wasn't swollen anymore but it was still very red and had an open sore so I got her in to the pedi this morning and now she's on an antibiotic cream as a precaution with strict instructions to keep an eye on it. Thanks for all the well wishes I hope no one else has to go through this trama, mine was a pretty severe case so its not commonly as bad as I had. So new diaper changing routine includes foot and hand inspection. Also nighttime routine now includes pajama inspection.

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    Thanks for the reminder. I'm glad little one is ok.
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  • Sam0905Sam0905 member
    I hope everything turns out okay! This is very scary and I'm paranoid about it as well. I worked with an orthopedic surgeon who had to do surgery on a 3 month old with a hair tourniquet. He managed to save the tiny finger, but the mom said she wanted to shave her head afterwards :-(. This is a good reminder to keep an eye on those little appendages!
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  • Craved1Craved1 member
    Good to hear that all is good. I had heard something similar to this but it was from a thread that was on the inside of a sock that got wrapped around a baby's toe. Never thought to check for hair. Thanks for the post.
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  • apinkpelicanapinkpelican member
    Whoa... auto correct had a hay day with your post!

    Thanks for posting.  I have long blonde hair and keep finding it in her hands but haven't thought to check her toes!

    Glad she is doing OK! Very scary! 
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