Ladies of a 'certain age' - Watch out for Beauty Parlor Syndrome
A widower has begun a campaign to raise awareness of Beauty Parlour Stroke Syndrome following the death of his wife at 51.Malcolm Crabb said his wife Pamela became ill and was diagnosed as having had a mini-stroke after a visit to the hairdressers, during which she was shampooed over a washbasin. The rare syndrome has been linked to the prolonged distortion of the neck during shampoos.
Mr Crabb, 49, an estate agent, from Poole, Dorset, married his wife in April 2000. However in September that year Mrs Crabb visited the hairdressers where she became ill after stretching her neck during a backwards wash over the basin. Her husband said that over a three-week period her speech became slurred and her hands became "claw-like". She recovered from the mini-stroke but her speech was occasionally slurred.
Last week she had another stroke beside their swimming pool on the Costa del Sol in Spain, where the couple had moved this year. She died later in a hospital in Malaga and was cremated yesterday. Mr Crabb said he was convinced the visit to the hairdressers had led to her death. He urged that more should be done to warn people who are vulnerable to strokes of the dangers of stretching their necks, particularly those, like his wife, who have high blood pressure or hypertension.
"I am not scaremongering but I want to stop people dying from Beauty Parlour Syndrome," he said. "I don't blame the hairdressers but people with high blood pressure should be aware of the dangers and not bend backwards over the basin. There should be warnings in hairdressers about it in the same way that there are warnings about people with pacemakers going through airport security machines."
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