"She had a large abscess on the back of her wrist, so I basically made an incision and drained the puss all the way down," Dr. Amit Gupta at Norton Healthcare told WLKY.

A Louisville, Kentucky woman required surgery after an abscess grew on the back of her wrist after wearing a hair-tie on her wrist for too long, according to WLKY.

"She had a large abscess on the back of her wrist, so I basically made an incision and drained the puss all the way down," Gupta told WLKY-TV. So, should you toss out your hair ties?

Dr. Amit Gupta, a hand surgeon at Norton Healthcare in Louisville, had to perform an operation on Audree Kopp after finding a large abscess over her wrist.