Hyderabad: 50-year-old woman suffers 'beauty parlour stroke syndrome', Neurologist explains on Twitter
Hyderabad: Relaxation became a nightmare for a 50-year-old woman from Hyderabad who recently suffered from beauty parlour stroke syndrome while getting her hair washed in a beauty parlour. The stroke was caused by bilateral compression of the vertebral arteries, which occurs when the head is tilted back over the shampoo sink, in a background of atherosclerosis.
A week ago, the woman visited a salon to get a haircut in Hyderabad. While the hairdresser was washing the woman's hair with shampoo, she began to feel symptoms like dizziness, nausea & vomiting and was immediately taken to a gastroenterologist.
The doctor found no gastric issues and referred the woman to Dr Sudhir Kumar, senior consultant neurologist at Apollo Hospitals in Jubilee Hills. After conducting an MRI, Dr Sudhir diagnosed that it was a stroke.
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"Her symptoms did not improve and the next day she developed mild imbalance while walking. She was referred for my opinion. She had mild right cerebellar signs. MRI brain revealed an infarct in the right posterior inferior cerebellar territory, MRI angiogram showed left vertebral hypoplasia," said Dr Sudhir.
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