HAIRY MOMENT!
Toe horror as strand cuts blood
A BABY almost lost his toes when a strand of his mum’s hair wrapped around them and cut off his circulation.
Ten-week-old Ezra awoke mum Alex Upton with his frantic screaming.
She noticed his foot was red and swollen, and when she checked she saw a single piece of her hair wrapped around his toes.
It had cut off the blood supply to them for 12 hours, and she feared the tot would have to have them amputated.
The teaching assistant, 26, said: “I panicked a lot because I’d seen things about it before, but never really thought it’d happen to one of my kids.”
She explained: “Ezra wasn’t himself in the morning. His normal routine is he wakes up, has his bottle, then has a nap.
“He wasn’t having any of his milk and was just screaming. It wasn’t until I was changing him and saw the little bit of hair that I realised why he was so upset. It was just a single strand.
“One of his toes was really swollen and it had become really red and sore where the hair was.
“I pulled at it and realised how tightly it’d wrapped around his toes. It’d tangled around three or four of them.
“I managed to get it off except for the toe next to his big toe. That’d gone so tight that it got to the point where I couldn’t get it off.” She eventually managed to free it and took Ezra to the doctors, where he was given a clean bill of health.
Now Alex, from Paignton, Devon, is warning other parents to be aware of the danger. She said: “I’m normally really safety conscious with the kids but I had never expected this to happen to us.
“My advice to any parents would be when you’re changing babygrows or putting on socks, or even getting them out of the bath, check thoroughly and make sure you turn clothing inside out first to remove any stray hair.”