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And "beautiful,” is just how Gloria Williams hoped she would look for her birthday weekend celebration last month. Not suffering from puffy eyes, and swollen, itching her scalp seeping with pus.
“I was so upset and devastated and depressed over the way that I looked,” Williams continues.
And all this because she wanted to get rid of some of her gray.
“I have a lot of gray in my hair, sometimes, you know, I want to look nice.”
So on the day before her birthday weekend, the Calumet City woman picked up some Bigen oriental black hair dye, a brand she had never used before. She did a patch test on her scalp to make sure she wouldn't react to the dye, then waited one day, and colored her hair. At dinner that night, her scalp started itching like crazy.
Mrs. Williams interrupted her celebration to wash the dye out of her hair, but by the next day her husband says she looked disfigured.
So she went to Saint Margaret’s Hospital where doctors told her that despite dyeing her hair for the last 8 years, she was now having an allergic reaction. And would have to take steroids.
Her face continued to swell for another day, until the medications took effect.
“I never would have put that in my hair if I had known the affects that were gonna happen,” says Williams.
But, Gloria might consider herself lucky. She called Fox Chicago News after seeing our report that two women have died because of severe allergic reactions to hair dye.
The experts say allergic reactions usually worsen gradually over time, so consumers discover the allergy, before a severe reaction occurs.
“I’ve had several patients who had colored their hair for a year or two then all of a sudden they started getting itching and then the next time a little bit worse. I just warn them that if it gets worse you can’t use it any more. You'll have to have a substitute.” Explains dermatologist Dr. Marianne O'Donoghue.
Instructions for Bigen hair dyes tell customers to wait forty-eight hours after their patch test before coloring their hair. Williams only waited only one day.
The Bigen Company told us it was sorry about her unpleasant incident, and that allergic reactions to its products are below the industry average, which is less than one in five hundred.The company also says hair dyes should not be used by customers who are not feeling healthy.
The company's website says it is not responsible for any allergies or damages/irritation to the skin.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/hair_dye_2_apr09
Problems for More Women
And "beautiful,” is just how Gloria Williams hoped she would look for her birthday weekend celebration last month. Not suffering from puffy eyes, and swollen, itching her scalp seeping with pus.
“I was so upset and devastated and depressed over the way that I looked,” Williams continues.
And all this because she wanted to get rid of some of her gray.
“I have a lot of gray in my hair, sometimes, you know, I want to look nice.”
So on the day before her birthday weekend, the Calumet City woman picked up some Bigen oriental black hair dye, a brand she had never used before. She did a patch test on her scalp to make sure she wouldn't react to the dye, then waited one day, and colored her hair. At dinner that night, her scalp started itching like crazy.
Mrs. Williams interrupted her celebration to wash the dye out of her hair, but by the next day her husband says she looked disfigured.
So she went to Saint Margaret’s Hospital where doctors told her that despite dyeing her hair for the last 8 years, she was now having an allergic reaction. And would have to take steroids.
Her face continued to swell for another day, until the medications took effect.
“I never would have put that in my hair if I had known the affects that were gonna happen,” says Williams.
But, Gloria might consider herself lucky. She called Fox Chicago News after seeing our report that two women have died because of severe allergic reactions to hair dye.
The experts say allergic reactions usually worsen gradually over time, so consumers discover the allergy, before a severe reaction occurs.
“I’ve had several patients who had colored their hair for a year or two then all of a sudden they started getting itching and then the next time a little bit worse. I just warn them that if it gets worse you can’t use it any more. You'll have to have a substitute.” Explains dermatologist Dr. Marianne O'Donoghue.
Instructions for Bigen hair dyes tell customers to wait forty-eight hours after their patch test before coloring their hair. Williams only waited only one day.
The Bigen Company told us it was sorry about her unpleasant incident, and that allergic reactions to its products are below the industry average, which is less than one in five hundred.The company also says hair dyes should not be used by customers who are not feeling healthy.
The company's website says it is not responsible for any allergies or damages/irritation to the skin.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/hair_dye_2_apr09
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