Woman's bald patch, blisters and sores 'caused by using dry shampoo'
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Your support makes all the difference.A woman has claimed she developed a bald patch, blisters and sores as a result of regularly using 'dry' shampoo,
Nicole Baxter, 21, from Belfast, was diagnosed with Triangular Alopecia after her hair began to fall out.
She wrote on Facebook in a post shared over 30,000 times: "Dry shampoo caused me to now have this bald patch on my head, which I still have and it may or may not grow back, but nothing can be done - and a terrible scalp for ages."
Nicole was diagnosed with this condition at Belfast City Hospital and told to stop using any products for six weeks until a follow-up appointment.
After ending her use of dry shampoo, Nicole said the blisters and sores disappeared. She now advises people to avoid this shortcut to clean-looking hair, although she acknowledges she had a particularly allergic reaction.
She posted about her follow-up appointment: "She [the specialist] looked at my file and said that it was to see what the blisters and sores were and could they diagnose a cause and straight away I’d realised that I didn’t have them anymore (I don’t know why I hadn’t realised before).
"So she compared my scalp today to the pictures that were in my file from February and asked what had I done differently in the last 6-7 weeks that may have helped it?
"I told her I’d stopped using dry shampoo and that was it, nothing else different."
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