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Article: Salon faces dye fallout; HAIR DYES - WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- April 26, 2009
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PAUL SPRY'S hair has fallen out in clumps and his head is riddled
with bald patches. He suffers headaches and a scabby scalp. Luckily,
he has almost recovered from the rash that covered his entire body
from his torso to the bottom of his feet; when it peeled, his skin
came off in sheets.
Spry's nightmare began in January when he had an allergic
reaction to a hair colour applied at an Invercargill salon. Within
days of the treatment he developed oozing sores on his scalp and his
face and head swelled up.
Spry told the Sunday Star- Times he had suffered months of
itching from the rash, and days off work and medical bills had cost
him and his wife, Jane, about $1500 to date.
"Our social life ...