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- Title
Scalp burns from Permanent Wave Product.
- Abstract
This article presents information related to scalp burns resulting from the use of home permanent wave products at Children's Hospital of Michigan from 1984 to 1988. The patients were black children aged 9-12 years. Five were female, one was male. In all instances, the patients referred to their hair treatment as a "Jheri Curl," a generic name for a permanent wave treatment. Permanent wave treatments produce a curl in hair by reducing the disulfide bond in hair keratin. The hair is then bent and twisted into the desired shape and form. Next, the stable disulfide linkage is reformed by a "neutralizing" (oxidizing) agent. Some of the cases probably resulted from the "hot wave" products that are currently popular. Although the literature of 40 years ago mentioned chemical burns of the scalp from "cold wave" treatments, no references to burns from the more recent products are found.
- Subjects
BURNS &; scalds; CHILDREN'S injuries; PATIENTS; CHEMICAL burns; PERMANENT waving; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 1990, Vol 29, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000992289002900111