Killer No. 5: ShavingThe danger: A blood infection
The source: Cosmopolitan
The account: "Three days after a normal shave, I noticed a small, reddish bump on my bikini line....Twenty-four hours later, it was a throbbing, golf ball-size mountain....I looked three months pregnant."
The details: "'It's staph,' the doctor explained....When it enters the skin -- through a small cut, like from shaving, waxing, or a picked ingrown -- it can create an abscess that grows.' If it isn't drained within days, it can spread internally and cause a deadly blood infection called sepsis."
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