Woman's Skinny Jeans Were So Tight, Doctors Had To Cut It Off Of Her
How tight is too tight?
By Hew Lee Yee — 24 Jun 2015, 04:45 PM
Looks like the problems you have with your favourite pair of skinny jeans go beyond just being hard to put on and even harder to take off. They could be a health hazard as well. Who knew, right?
An Australian woman's jeans were so tight, it caused her to blackout and had to be hospitalised. Yikes, talk about being a fashion victim.
A 35-year-old Australian woman wound up in the hospital after wearing skinny jeans while helping a family member move. As she walked home, the woman found herself struggling to lift her increasingly numb feet. She fell to the ground, and lay there for several hours before she was found and taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
npr.orgShe was helping a relative move which involved a lot of squatting. Combine the strenuous activity with her super tight jeans, it resulted in constricted blood flow to her legs, thus temporarily paralysing her.
Helping a relative move house, she spent hours squatting while emptying cupboards and noticed increasing pain in her legs. The prolonged squatting and tight jeans had cut off blood supply to the woman's legs and caused swelling and nerve damage.
“As she was squatting for a long period of time her trousers restricted the blood supply to both calves, and in response the muscles start to undergo stress and swell,” wrote Dr Kimber.
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The woman's legs were so swollen when she was brought to the hospital that they had to cut the jeans off her. She was hospitalised for four days to treat her leg weakness and nerve damage and has since made a full recovery.
"If she hadn't been able to come to the hospital, the compression could have gone on longer and caused residual nerve damage," said Kimber, who is an associate professor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia.
After four days on an IV, she could walk again and was released from the hospital.
Keep this woman in mind the next time you squeeze into your favourite pair of skinny jeans and plan on doing some squatting or kneeling. Remember, if your legs start feeling tingly, it ain't a good sign!
"The wearing of 'skinny' jeans had likely potentiated the tibial neuropathies by causing a compartment syndrome as the lower leg swelled," the report concluded. Not good. The swelling of compartment syndrome can lead to permanent muscle and nerve damage, or amputation.
npr.org"The take home message is to avoid wearing skinny jeans if you intend to do a job with squatting or kneeling. If your legs begin to feel uncomfortable or tingle, you should stand up and get the blood circulating again," said Kimber.
