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Safety Tips For When Frequenting the Beauty Salon
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Going to the hairdresser can be potentially dangerous. The backwards neck extending that occurs during hair washing at the salon can lead to serious, unexpected medical conditions.
Webcast Transcript
Dr. Dan: I’m Doctor Bruce Dan.
A visit to the hairdresser is usually a pleasant experience. But for one woman, getting her hair done could have been lethal.
British medical journal Lancet reports the case of a 42-year-old woman who went to the hairdresser and had her hair washed for five or six minutes with her neck extended backwards over a sink. By the time she left the salon, she had difficulty walking, there was weakness in her left leg, and soon developed slurred speech. She was admitted to a hospital and diagnosed as having a stroke.
CAT scans revealed she’d torn the inner lining of the major artery in her neck, obstructing blood flow to her brain. It apparently resulted from having her neck extended so far back. These sorts of arterial tears can occur in the elderly, but this is the first reported case of it happening at the hairdresser’s sink.
Doctors are warning patients and hairdressers about the dangers of this backward neck extension. After all, the only thing you should lose at the hairdresser’s is a little hair.
With Doctor’s Corner, I’m Doctor Bruce Dan.
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