Doctors amputate finger of Chinese girl, 4, after tightly wound plaster turns it black
Doctors in Suzhou, who hope to save remaining part of child's finger, say poor blood circulation led to necrosis and warn about binding cuts on fingers and toes
A four-year-old Chinese girl had to have part of one of her fingers amputated after a sticking plaster was wound too tightly to bind a wound, the Yangtse Evening Post reports.
Ten days earlier the girl, originally from Jiashan county, in Zhejiang province, had bitten the middle finger on her left hand and caused a painful wound, the girl’s grandmother said.
The grandmother said she had immediately put on a plaster to protect it, but later the child had used a strip of cloth to bind up the wound tightly because she was worried the plaster would fall off.
Later the girl was taken to a hospital in Suzhou, in Jiangsu province, where the family now lives, after he finger swelled up.
Doctors found the upper part of the finger had atrophied, making it shorter than other fingers. The tip of the finger had also turned black and hard.
After the amputation, the girl’s left hand would lose at least 5 per cent of its function, and she would be able to carry out some tasks, a doctor at the hospital said.