This is a Simple Habit You've Been Doing Everyday that is Actually Life Threatening!!!

This just proves that even the simplest details need careful attention.

Like most women, Audree Kopp from Lexington, Kentucky used to hang hair ties around her wrists on a regular. However, amidst a move to her new home, she noticed a red bump on her wrist.

"It just kept getting bigger and redder and worse," explained Kopp, and went to a family doctor who gave her antibiotics to hopefully treat the red bump. But when the antibiotics didn't work, Kopp made a second visit to the hospital only to find out that she needed to have an immediate surgery.

Dr. Amit Gupta, Kopp's doctor, said she had a large abscess on the back of her wrist. What more, it was from wearing a glittery hair tie which caused the infection.

"I didn't believe it at first, I thought that it was a spider bite, or something else, not from wearing hair ties."

Aware that a large population of female has been doing this simple habit and haven't thought that hair ties on wrists can cause a life-threatening infection, Kopp reached out to other girls via facebook.

"The doctor advised if you DO want to wear hair ties on your wrist… make sure they’re the plastic no slip ones I posted. and make sure when washing your hands … u go up your wrist and wash the tie."