There was a mother left hospitalized after suffering a severe reaction to her hair dye, which left her scalp covered with blisters and her eyes closed.
Leonie Dee, 27, wanted to dye her hair in two different shades, with Schwarzkopf Live in “Cosmic Blue” and “Ultra Violet”, which cost her £ 4.79 each.
The mother of four says she performed a patch test for both products according to instructions to make sure she would not have any adverse reactions.
However, whand Leonie he came to dye the upper half of his hair dark blue color, he was horrified to see that his skin was beginning to have blisters and swelling.
After being so hospitalized for 36 hours, he has now vowed never to dye hair again.
Leonie, who works as a cleaner for her local GP surgery in Aberaeron, Wales, said: “It was really scary – at one point they were worried that the swelling might move to the front of my throat.
“I even asked them at the hospital if I would shave all my hair. I could prepare to do it if I had made a difference.
“But the dye had already absorbed into my scalp, so there was nothing to do but wait for the swelling and blisters to go down.
“I definitely never have my hair dye again; I’ll let it grow and then I’ll let it go.”
Leonie said she used to dye her hair regularly when she was a teenager, but after having children (now 11, 10, three and six months old), she found that “she couldn’t be bothered” and that she hadn’t dyed her for seven years.
On this occasion, she “imagined a change,” saying she was “really religious” in reading the box brochure and doing the patch test.
There was no problem with the patch test, so I went ahead and dyed the bottom half hair purple.
“That went well, “she said.
“Then I gave it a couple of days before I did the blue hair dye on the top half of my head at 5.30pm on Thursday.
“When I woke up the next morning, my ears and side of my neck had started to get a little inflamed, but I was able to manage it well by just taking a few anti-allergy pills I had at home.”
When Leonie woke up Saturday morning, she found that her hairline was “covered in these large dimensions.” blisters and his eyes were so swollen he could see nothing.
She goesHe went to Aberystwyth Hospital on Saturday evening at 6 p.m., spending 36 hours with treatment steroids, pills and anti-allergic creams, and so was he put on a fluid drip.
Leonie said: “The blisters kept popping up and taking out a blue dye.
“They had to keep the lights off above my hospital bed because the light irritated my eyes. All I could do was sit back and wait for it to get better.”
He returned home Monday morning at 10:30 a.m., but the inflorescence it has not gone down completely.
“I just have to keep taking the medication and wait for my hair to grow back and return to normal,” she said.
Leonie said she has since done more research on the Schwarzkopf hair dye, i I discovered that the darkest Colours as ‘Cosmic blue‘ it has a higher concentration of its active ingredients, to which it believes it reacted.
She is too sent an online questionnaire to Schwarzkopf in the first step to file a claim.
LADbible has been contacted Schwarzkopf for comments.