The baby was 24 days old and would not stop crying. She had been crying for about four hours when her mother brought her to the emergency department at King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh. Her heart rate was slightly fast. Everything else checked out.
Then someone looked at her feet. The middle toe on her right foot was swollen compared with the others. On close inspection, a single strand of hair was wound around it, pulled so tight it had sunk below the surface of the swollen skin.
