女生請注意! 髮圈綁在手腕上有可能要了你的命!

For decades now, we've been wearing hair ties on our wrists. Not only is this the most convenient method, but it's also the only way we can keep ourselves from losing them — otherwise, the darn things just disappear.

幾十年來，我們經常把綁頭髮的橡皮筋戴在手腕上。這不僅是最方便的方法，而且橡皮筋還不容易弄丟。否則，那個小玩意兒就不見了。

But one Kentucky woman's harrowing tale may cause you to reconsider this accessory altogether.

但是在看完這個肯塔基女人的悲慘故事，你可能會對這個小配飾有些顧慮。

According to WLKY, Louisville local Audree Kopp noticed a bump on her wrist growing bigger and bigger.

據WLKY報道，路易維爾市當地居民奧德利·科普注意到手腕有個凸塊而且越長越大。

Though she was prescribed a course of antibiotics from her doctor, it continued to enlarge and become inflamed, so she went to the emergency room. It was there that she learned her glittery hair tie had caused three kinds of infections in her wrist.

儘管醫生給她開了一個療程的抗生素，但是凸塊越發腫大，甚至發炎。她不得不去了急診室就醫，後來才知道原來是綁在手上亮閃閃的橡皮筋導致了手腕的三種感染。

Dr. Amit Gupta at Norton Healthcare, who immediately performed surgery on Audree, believes that bacteria from the difficult-to-clean accessory entered her skin through pores and hair follicles.

諾頓醫療的阿密特·古普塔醫生在立即對奧德利進行了手術。他認爲細菌是從不易清潔的橡皮筋通過毛孔和毛囊進入了病人的皮膚。

If she hadn't visited the emergency room when she did, the infection could have turned into sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by bacteria in the bloodstream.

如果她沒有及時來就診，感染可能會變成膿毒症——一種由血液中細菌引起的危及性命的疾病。

"People have been known to go into a coma, your body shuts down," Audree explained. "It could have been way worse."

“大家都知道人一進入昏迷狀態，身體系統就會停工，”奧德利解釋道。“情況可能會更糟糕。”

Maybe it's for the best that hair ties get lost when we're not wearing them – they have the potential to cause serious harm.

所以可能最佳做法就是，就算弄丟橡皮筋也不要戴在手上，因爲它們有造成嚴重傷害的可能性。