My baby’s toe was nearly amputated — doctors said a strand of hair was the problem

It turned into a keratin-filled garrote.

A UK mom claims her toddler nearly had to have his toe amputated after a strand of her hair got wrapped around it, cutting off the blood flow.

“I had never had to deal with anything like this before,” Laura Powles, 31, told Kennedy News of the freak accident.

The Wales resident said her 10-week-old toddler Skylah-Rae had been acting really “grizzly” [fussy] for a couple of days, but chalked it up to normal tiredness and forgot about it.

Then, one day, while changing her diaper, the Brit noticed that one of the tot’s toes was unusually red like a boiled shrimp, as seen in alarming photos.

“It was really swollen and red and I was panicking,” exclaimed Powles, who subsequently rushed the tyke to the Prince Of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.

There, doctors revealed that the tot suffered from hair tourniquet syndrome, an affliction that occurs when an errant strand of hair wraps around an infant’s small appendages, generally the toes, fingers,…