Contents:
- Medical Video: Hair Shedding Vs Hair Loss: Am I Losing My Hair, And How Can I Tell?
- What is hair tourniquet?
- What are the symptoms of hair tourniquet?
- How to deal with hair tourniquet?
- How to prevent hair tourniquet?
Medical Video: Hair Shedding Vs Hair Loss: Am I Losing My Hair, And How Can I Tell?
Have you ever heard of hair tourniquet? Maybe it's still strange in your ears. However, you need to find out more to avoid this condition in your child.
What is hair tourniquet?
Hairdressing or hair tourniquet occurs when a hair is wrapped around the body part and cuts off blood circulation. Hair picks can damage nerves, skin tissue, and function of body parts.
Hair picks can affect your fingers, toes, genitals, or other additional organs. Hair picks can also be caused by a thread or a thin rope.
Hair picks usually only affect babies because the baby's organs are still so small that the hair can wrap around it. After giving birth, the mother tends to lose a lot of hair due to loss. Therefore, the baby becomes more susceptible to being wrapped around the hair that falls around him.
What are the symptoms of hair tourniquet?
Hairdressing or hair tourniquet can be very painful. Therefore, babies who have this condition will often cry. Although it sounds a little strange, parents or caregivers need to look for tourniquets when handling crying babies.
If your baby cries or looks in pain and you have tried all the ways to calm him down but the baby won't stop, beware. Check the baby's entire body and see if any hair is wrapped around his body.
Signs and symptoms of this condition include:
- Crying excessively.
- Finger or toes, genitals, umbilical stump, or the tongue turns red or changes color.
- Mild to severe swelling in the affected area.
- Curvature of the affected area, even if no hair is visible.
Hair bricks can be dangerous if left too long. Babies are at risk of losing body parts that are entangled because they break up.
Hair briquettes also cause complications called ischemia. Ischemia is a lack of blood flow to the body's organs or tissues. If this condition is known to be faster, it will be easier to treat.
How to deal with hair tourniquet?
The only way to overcomehair tourniquet is to take the hair wrapped around the baby. However, this is quite difficult to do if the area is swollen or the strands of hair are too thin and difficult to see.
If you don't succeed in doing it in minutes, immediately take your baby to the doctor.
The easiest way to get rid of it hair tourniquet maybe by using a hair remover cream or hair removal remedy with an active ingredient of calcium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide or calcium tioglycolate. However, you should only try the medicine with this ingredient if the skin around the affected area is not bleeding or injured.
Here's a way to get rid of ithair tourniquet.
- To look for and release hair tourniquets in your baby to do in a place with bright lighting.
- Apply a hair removal remedy cream directly to the hair or affected area.
- Let stand for five minutes.
- Wash the hair remover cream with warm water.
- Apply disinfectants such as hydrogen peroxide to the affected area.
- If the affected area is still red, swollen, or curved, and your baby is still sick, immediately seek medical attention. Emergency medical care is very important to protect your child from severe complications.
You might also be able to remove hair using needle-nose tweezers. However, this method is rather complicated, especially if the hair is too thin or the area that is entangled in swelling is severe. If you want to try it, use this tool carefully so that it does not pierce the baby's skin or make the hair tie more tightly around the area.
After the hair is removed, the blood will begin to circulate again in the affected area and the area will heal. In some cases, everything will return to normal within a few minutes. However, in other cases that are quite extreme, there may be an effect of injury that appears for years.
If you try to use a hair remover cream at home, be sure to observe allergic reactions and thoroughly wash the affected area afterwards.
How to prevent hair tourniquet?
Even though hair tourniquets are rare, you should still be aware that the possibilities remain. You can prevent it with the following things.
- Comb your hair frequently to remove hair loss that can fall on your baby.
- Tie your hair back when you change clothes, bathe, or play with your little one.
- Remember to check your baby's toes and fingers for signs of hair tourniquet.
