London - British doctors warned about a little-known danger of visiting the hairdresser after a woman suffered a stroke while having her hair washed.
The condition known as "beauty-parlour syndrome" occurred when she stretched her head backwards over the sink and damaged the carotid artery in her neck. "This practice is not without risk," Dr David Bateman, of the Royal United Hospital in Bath, said in a letter to the Lancet medical journal.
