The hair dye distorts the pupil (19): "The head is a bulb!" | Remarkable

Estelle will think twice if she wants to color her hair again. The French Vitry student bought two weeks ago a box of hair dye from a famous brand that – like almost all products for hair dyeing – was a PPD or a paraphenylene diamine, a particularly allergenic dye.

first tested a small amount of hair dye on his skin, to see if any irritation would occur. It was only at that time that she waited only half an hour instead of the 48 hours prescribed in the parcel. Thus, the French pursued without question and applied the product on his hair.

Incandescent lamp

The consequences did not last long: Estell's scalp was starting to itch and the top of his head seemed to be swelling up. The student tried to suppress allergic reactions with a soothing cream and antihistamines, but the next morning she seemed to have only worsened.

She was completely surprised. rot of the "spherical head".

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"I had a spherical head, my face looked like an incandescent lamp," said the young woman, who headed straight to the emergency room .

It was clearly not the first time that doctors saw the symptoms. Estelle has received corticosteroids and antihistamines. But the situation has not improved at home.

On the contrary. "Then we went to another hospital, Estelle suddenly had a hard time breathing in the car," says her mother. "His tongue began to swell and his heart beat faster."

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The doctors gave the student adrenaline and kept her awake all night. In the meantime, she is better and has been allowed to leave the hospital again.

Estelle especially wants to warn people with her story and her pictures. "I made a mistake and I did not want anyone to make the same mistake as me."

Doctors advise him not to color his hair in the future, but to leave it to a professional.