British man repayed after haircut triggers stroke

A BRITISH man who suffered a stroke because an artery was damaged during a routine haircut has reportedly received £90,000 in compensation from the salon.

Dave Tyler, a 45-yea r-old fat her of t wo, collapsed t wo days later during a business meeting, prompting a trip to hospita l where a consulta nt asked hi m: “Have you had your hair cut recent ly? ”

Tyler had his hair washed and cut at the Headmasters salon in his home town of Brighton, southern England, according to reports in the Times and Mail on Sunday.

Doctors believe an artery was injured when Tyler’s head was bent backwards over the basin to wash his hair, causing a blood clot that led to the debilitating stroke.

He reportedly had to spend some three months in hospital and was left only able to walk with the help of a stick and unable to drive because of blurred vision.

The salon agreed to pay £90,000 ($114,000, 107,000) after Tyler’s lawyers claimed it had failed to adequately protect his head during the visit in 2011.

The salon referred AFP’s questions about the case to the headquarters of Headmas- ters, a chain, but no one was immediately available for comment.

According to the Times, similar incidents have been previously recorded in medical journals, and the newspaper cited two other cases of so-called “beauty parlour syndrome”.

In January 2014, mother-oftwo Elizabeth Smith reportedly had a stroke after visiting a salon in San Diego, in the United States.

And in 2000, Pamela Crabb, from Poole, in southern England, also suffered a stroke believed to have been caused by a salon visit.