People Are Having Strokes From Getting Their Hair Washed At Salons
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In January 2014, Elizabeth Smith, a mother of two, had a stroke caused by a visit to the hair salon.
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A CT scan revealed that an artery in her neck had been damaged by this shampoo chair and sink at Blowbunny: Blow Dry & Hair Extension Bar in San Diego, according to court documents.
She filed suit against the salon in December 2015.
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In the medical world, they actually have a term for this: beauty parlor stroke.
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While someone's hair is getting shampooed, the arteries in their neck can get cut or torn due to hyperextension or any whiplash-type motions that happen during a salon visit.
"When one of those cervical arteries is damaged in some sort of way, you can get what's called a dissection, which is damage of the inside of the blood vessel, leading to abnormal flow and clotting, and then those clots can shoot north into the brain and cause a stroke," said Steven R. Zeiler, M.D., Ph.D., head of stroke research at Johns Hopkins.
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