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A. J. REICHES, M.D.; WILLIAM PARKER, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;66(4):521-523.

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The public is now being overwhelmed by newspaper, radio, and television claims of the simplicity of so-called home permanent-wave treatments for both women and children. The incidence of untoward reactions from home and beauty-parlor cold-wave solutions is apparently increasing. We do feel that, even though the number of reactions is very small, use of these cold-wave preparations is not entirely devoid of complications.

Cold-wave permanents have been reported by Reiches and Lane¹ to cause areas of temporary alopecia of the scalp. The transitory baldness from thioglycolate cold-wave preparations at times has to be differentiated from alopecia areata of the scalp.

We are reporting two additional cases and a third in which temporary alopecia occurred for the second time. Two of the patients used home cold-wave preparations; the other was given the permanent wave at a beauty parlor. Both home and beauty-parlor cold-wave preparations are solutions of ammonium . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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