Janet:
Thanks for providing me w/confirmation of the potential danger to the
carotid artery in the neck while at the beauty parlor. It was due to
increased pain in my neck that I stopped going a few years back. I think my
family & friends thought (think) I was being silly and remained skeptical.
Scraggily yours, :-)
Barbara Blake-Krebs (56, dx 1984) [log in to unmask]
Merriam, KS, USA (ltr after F is cap "i")
You posted--
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:16:40 -0400
From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NEWS: Non PD: Beware of 'beauty-parlor' syndrome
Beware of 'beauty-parlor' syndrome
LONDON (September 19, 1997 06:27 a.m. EDT) - British doctors warned Friday
about a little-known danger of visiting the hairdresser after a 42-year-old
woman suffered a stroke while having her hair washed.
The condition known as "beauty-parlor syndrome" occurred when she stretched
her head backward over the sink and damaged the carotid artery in her neck.
"This practice is not without risk," Dr. David Bateman of the Royal United
Hospital in Bath said in a letter to the Lancet medical journal.
"Hairdressers should be instructed not to over-extend the neck and should use
the cushion usually provided."
The 42-year-old woman noticed a stiffness in her leg when she left the
hairdresser.
Within two hours of leaving she was unsteady on her feet and the next day she
woke up with numbness around her face and left arm and had slurred speech.
Doctors who examined her in hospital found that the lining of one of the
arteries in her neck had torn away and was blocking the passage of blood to
her brain.
Within six months after the stroke, the woman had made an almost complete
recovery but still had some weakness in her arm and hand, Bateman said.
"Carotid-artery and vertebral-artery dissection are increasingly recognized
as a cause of stroke in younger people," he added.
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