Actual little wound mother is amputated after minor shaving injury the leg

When shaving legs cut - infection leads to amputation

A woman from the UK had to have her leg amputated because she had cut herself years ago shaving her legs. The cut resulted in an aggressive infection that could not be completely stopped even after months of medical treatment.

Leg shave with bad consequences

Hair removal is a daily routine in many men and women. Shaving your legs often causes skin irritation and redness. Even ingrown hairs or even a hair root inflammation can be the result. The shaving of the legs, however, can have even worse effects: According to a media report, a woman from the UK lost a leg after she had cut herself during hair removal.

It can happen that one cuts oneself when shaving legs. However, an Englishwoman even lost her leg because the wound became very infected. (Image: Voyagerix / fotolia.com)

Wound became bigger and bigger

Tanya Czernozukow from Nottingham, England, thought nothing of shaving her right leg in 2014, according to a report from online portal SWNS.com.

"I've done that a thousand times, so I just put a handkerchief on it and waited for it to stop bleeding," she explained.

And even as the injury got infected and a coin-sized scab formed on the cut, the 43-year-old mother ignored her wound.

But within the next six months, the wound tripled and became a "huge hole".

Czernozukov said, "Within weeks, it was green and black from my ankle to my knee. The pain was absolute hell. "

Gangrene through leg ulcer

Over the next 18 months, the doctors tried to fight against the aggressive infection.

To "SWNS.com" the patient said: "I had to take more and more painkillers. There was a constant sense of thousands of needles in me. "

If she was sitting, then always with the "leg in a plastic bag - there was so much fluid in it, I felt like in a horror movie."

Eventually, the pain became so severe that she was hospitalized for several days, where the doctors told her that she had a leg ulcer (ulcus cruris) that had developed into gangrene (formerly known as "gangrene").

Worse wound healing in diabetes

She was also diagnosed with diabetes.

According to health experts, diabetics are persons with impaired wound healing. Even with the Englishwoman's body's healing powers were greatly weakened by the diabetes, so that the infection was able to spread in such a way.

The doctors treated the woman with strong antibiotics.

But even after discharge, she had to return to the clinic again and again, including a biotherapy in which medical maggots clean the wounds by eating the dead tissue.

The painful treatment, however, was unsuccessful: "For 24 hours I cried out in agony."

Patient decided for amputation

Finally, in April of 2016, her doctors at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Center suggested thinking about the drastic step of leg removal.

"They said: We do not have to amputate, but the cure could take years if it heals at all, and I said to them, Yes, take it off. I want it to go away. "

When she came to the surgery for the first time, she was shocked by what she said: "There were only inches left of my leg. I was in shock. It was like waking up in a nightmare. "

After the amputation, Ms. Czernozukov was in the hospital for five months, and after her release she had to learn how to move, sit upright and walk with an assistant or a stick.

Now she hopes that she will get a prosthesis in the near future.

The remaining leg is no longer shaved

Her remaining leg no longer depilates her. "I do not shave my other leg anymore. It scares me, "Czernozukov told SWNS.com..

"As strange as it sounds, I do not regret the operation a bit."

According to the information, the infection was stopped by the intervention. The patient is now painless and ready to continue her life.

"I want to go back to work. I think I'm almost done mentally. This is the next step in my life. "(Ad)