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" As a parent, there&amp;#039;s a litany of things you worry about on the regular. Go ahead, you can all collectively utter a duh...are people still saying that? But one Kansas dad is drawing attention to an all-too common danger that he hadn&amp;#039;t considered before his baby was harmed.\u00A0      At a recent lunch, Scott Walker&amp;#039;s\u00A0nearly five month old daughter, Molly\u00A0was &amp;quot;cranky and screaming \u2014 nothing out of the ordinary,&amp;quot; he writes in his Facebook post. &amp;quot;Molly has been battling some colic and reflux issues for the past couple months, so being agitated is nothing unordinary, for her, but something seemed &amp;#039;off&amp;#039; this time,&amp;quot; he told Buzzfeed.\u00A0 Despite his attempt to calm her, Molly was still overheating, so he and his wife, Jess, took off her socks to give her a little more air.\u00A0 &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s when\u00A0we saw her toe,&amp;quot; he said. Molly had what&amp;#039;s referred to as a &amp;quot;hair tourniquet,&amp;quot; which is as painful as it sounds. It happens when a strand of hair inside the sock gets tightly wound around a toe. While the baby wriggles, that strand can pierce the skin and cut off circulation. &amp;quot;Luckily for Molly, she has a mother with medical emergency superpowers who was able to remove the hair with tweezers and a magnifying glass within a few minutes,&amp;quot; Scott captioned a picture of what Molly&amp;#039;s toe looked like a full 45 minutes after the situation was remedied.\u00A0 &amp;quot;Unfortunately, the hair managed to cut all the way through Molly&amp;#039;s skin, completely around her toe, but it could have been worse had it gone much longer untreated, or if the hair wasn&amp;#039;t accessible.&amp;quot; Molly&amp;#039;s doctor told her parents that\u00A0unfortunately this is\u00A0common,\u00A0and if untreated, it can lead to severe infections, or in some cases, the child can lose a finger. Now, Scott is reminding parents &amp;quot;to always check the toes if the baby is inconsolable.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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