Many lose their fingertips when cleaning the bicycle chain.

Coimbatore: On Monday night, while the families enjoyed their Pooja vacation, a young man entered Ganga City Hospital in the city, with a small portion of his right index finger amputated. He said he had lost part of his finger as he tried to clean his bicycle chain. The doctors immediately rushed to replace the sliced ​​portion he had found happy.
This patient is not an isolated case. The specialist in hand and microsurgery reported at least 50 cases of finger amputation or near-amputation after bicycle-cleaning accidents. The KMCH Super Specialty Hospital also reported several serious finger injuries and amputations due to bicycle chain accidents. "We often get amputations from young people and bike enthusiasts, everyone says it was when they cleaned their bicycle chains," Dr. Raja Sabapathy, a micro-surgeon at Ganga Hospital. "If people can find the amputee part and the part is big enough, we'll apply it through microsurgery." If the room is small, we'll perform a composite tissue graft, cleaning the room, cutting off the excess tissue and replacing it in cases In which the amputated part can not be recovered, we perform rags, which means that you use tissue from the same finger or finger opposite, with which we cover the exposed bones bicycle chains, because they are not used to or trained. "
Most patients undergo a thumb or index amputation and the part is usually the fingertip that reaches the middle of the nail part. "It's important for enthusiasts to be extremely careful when cleaning their bicycle chains, or at least to learn this before attempting to clean them themselves," says the Plastic Surgeon at Kovai Medical Center. Subash. Kale from the hospital.
For example, J Ashwin, a brand professional who suffered a thumb injury about five weeks ago, said he started buying his dream bike about three months ago. "The problem is that every 200 km to 300 km of dust accumulates in the exposed bicycle chain and the accelerator pedal is pressed, so I wanted to clean it every two weeks and buy a lubricant," he says. "I started well, but since the process was too slow, I started the bike and drove at low speed, my grease brush stuck in the spinning chain, and when I tried to pull it out I stuck my finger in it and suddenly realized that the chain was sucking on it, next I knew it was an unbearable pain, a lot of blood and the tip of my finger was missing, "he adds. Now the young man hired a professional cleaner to clean his bike if necessary.
Bicycle mechanics say that many bicycle enthusiasts consider cleaning and using the bicycle as a leisure activity, but that they are dangerous parts like a chain and injure themselves. "First, we train weeks and months to clean bike chains, we just use brushes and never put our fingers in our hands, so if we clean the chain, we generally run the bike at the same speed and do not accelerate it at all." said K. Prashanth, Royal Enfield mechanic.

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