She went to a beauty salon to change her look and suffered a stroke while washing her hair

A 50-year-old woman suffered a stroke while having her hair washed before it was cut by a stylist at a salon. The striking episode was recorded in the city of Hyderabad, in India.

The visit to the hairdresser left permanent marks on his health, but, as strange as this story may seem, the event has a medical explanation in what specialists call vertebrobasilar insufficiency.

Doctors treating the patient said a vessel supplying blood to the brain was pressed when she leaned her neck back to wash her hair, triggering the stroke.

Speaking to India Today, doctor Praveen Kumar Yada explained: “It happens when the masseur presses hard on the neck and head, sometimes even twists the neck to make a crackling sound, this leads to sensitive vessels being injured. The woman, like many stroke patients, has been on medication for life.”

Along these lines, the director of Neurology at a hospital in Noida, doctor Jyoti Bala Sharma, maintained that “every time there is a manipulation of the neck, such as a beauty salon procedure or an activity of a chiropractic nature, it could cause a tear in the the arteries and a clot begins to form. Due to this clot, the blood supply to the brain is interrupted and this can lead to a stroke.”

However, there needs to be a pre-existing symptom that causes these strokes, known as atherosclerosis.

In 1993, Michael Weintraub was the first to coin the term for this syndrome in the Journal of the American Medical Association after seeing how five women developed severe neurological symptoms after washing their hair in beauty salons.

Patients reported severe dizziness, loss of balance, and facial numbness. It is worth mentioning that four out of five suffered a stroke, as revealed by the British media The Guardian.

Source-larepublica.pe