It happens very rarely, but it happens, and it is one of the causes of a baby being irritable, complaining and crying. He hair or thread tourniquet syndrome It can be dangerous because very few people fall in that the baby may be crying for that and, in an attempt to calm him with other things (feed him, change diaper, hold him in his arms, etc.), time goes by and The syndrome can get worse.
If you are still wondering what I mean, tell you that it is a distal part of the body, normally baby's fingers and penis, which is oppressed by a hair or a thread, causing a tourniquet that does not allow proper blood circulation and endangers the affected limb. For this reason it is always recommended that, if a child cries a lot, we undress him.
A personal case
I have known the syndrome for a long time and to date I had not seen it live, but yesterday I could see the consequences of a toe after being pressed by a hair, and I fall short if I explain that it gives a lot of impression.
Apparently, the girl cried and complained. The mother breastfed her, gave her syrup in case something hurt and thus got her to sleep a little. He had no fever, no symptoms of anything and finally decided to go to the hospital. There they saw that he had a toe with a strange groove and an unhealthy appearance (bruised and swollen). Nothing was visible to the naked eye, but by mobilizing a little finger they could see a hair that was beginning to sink and become part of the finger (That is another, the skin begins to wrap inside).
For a couple of days they were healing his finger and extracting pieces of hair, doubting at first that the finger was saved. The mother has been healing the wound at home and the finger is still in place, luckily, but the groove that gives the impression that, if you pull it, you take it is appreciated (that's what I mean by the impression given by seeing it).
Age and cause
Most cases occur in babies between 2 and 8 months, the average age being 4 months. It happens more in boys than in girls, basically because they have a penis and they don't (a "finger" more with the possibility of strangling) and the main cause is the adult hairs, that fall in that area and that end up winding around a member, although it can also happen with threads of clothing, socks, etc.
As for the diagnosis, it usually occurs around 6 hours after the onset of the syndrome, although there are cases that can last for days. When time passes, what has been said can happen, that the hair or the thread is not appreciated and that there is even an incision in the skin to reach it.
Some photos
Then I leave you with some photos of fingers caught by the hair or thread tourniquet syndrome, which come from a study published in the Spanish Annals of Pediatrics magazine that you can read on the page of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEPED).
You know, if the child cries: cold, heat, dirty diaper, food, need for affection, illness, fingers and penis (not necessarily in this order).
