Hair Straightening And Styling Can Cause Severe Injuries And Long Term Diseases

A curling or flat iron can cause a severe thermal burns on the face with a single touch of the cheek

Sunday, January 8, 2023 - Being a professional beautician can be a dangerous occupation and being a client even more so. Hair styling and cutting necessarily entails using sharp scissors and many times a flat or curling iron capable of inflicting serious burns to the beautician and also the client. Touching the scorching hot barrel of a curling or flat iron to the side of the face can cause an instantaneous and severe burn leading to ugly facial scarring, the opposite of what the beauty treatment was intended to produce. "A curling iron burn, aka a thermal burn, is physical trauma to the outer skin layer caused by a super-hot temp. This causes damage to the skin cells, which, in many cases, leads to something called programmed cell death," Joshua Zeichner, MD, a board-certified dermatologist reported to Cosmopolitan Magazine the other day. As women are gradually made aware of the risks associated with the frequent use of chemical hair straighteners, thousands of hair relaxer lawsuits may be brought this year. Women should think twice before using it during their beauty treatment given the risks they are taking.

While burns and cuts from a beauty treatment mostly affect the outside of the body, other dangers lurk in a beauty treatment that can damage the inside of the body. The most ominous of these dangers would be developing of the breast, uterus, or ovaries from using chemical hair straighteners. A hair relaxer cancer lawyer can help qualified individuals file a hair relaxer lawsuit. According to the latest research by the US National Institute of Health (NIH), those who use chemical hair relaxers and straighteners three or four times per year over a multi-year period may be more likely to develop uterine cancer than those who never used the product. The study was released on October 17, 2022, and people in the Beauty industry are taking notice. Some who have received a cancer diagnosis, having led an otherwise healthy lifestyle and have not had a history of cancer in their family, are now making the connection between their disease and the dangerous chemicals in their hair straightener like sodium hydroxide, lithium hydroxide, and guanidine carbonate, and formaldehyde. Beauticians in the African-American community have long known that chemical hair straighteners contained toxic chemicals that could burn the skin and cause eye irritation. They also know to open their windows and doors when applying heat to style hair after a chemical hair straightener application because of the formaldehyde fumes that the styling process created. Hair straightening and styling hazards are multiplied tenfold when an untrained person tries to give themselves an in-home beauty treatment since the novice hair styler is unaware of the dangers. Curling iron burns can be first, second, or third-degree and require to be immediately cooled down with ice or very cold water. If not the burn will continue to cook the skin and automatically become more severe. Experts recommend treating the burn with Vaseline and keeping it clean and moist after the burn has had time to cool down.

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