Warning Over "Hair Salon Stroke"

A widower has urged women to be careful when visiting the hair salon after his wife died from a stroke. Malcolm Crabb believes his wife Pamela, 51, suffered so-called Beauty Parlour Stroke Syndrome after her head was bent back while being washed at a salon. Mr Crabb, 49, said he wanted to "alert others to the dangers of Beauty Parlour Syndrome, especially those with high blood pressure". "I think there should be warnings in hairdressers about it," he added. Mrs Crabb suffered her first stroke following a hair appointment in September 2000, but died last week when a second stroke proved fatal. Her grieving husband says she never fully recovered from the first stroke, which he blames on Beauty Parlour Stroke Syndrome. After the hair appointment in September 2000 Mrs Crabb felt ill, her speech became slurred and her hands became claw-like. Hospital tests showed that she had suffered a stroke. A spokesman from the Stroke Association said: "There is no real research to support it as yet but cases have been published in medical journals.