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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 343
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 10/28/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Internal | Diagnosis: Ingested Object |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PT HAS A LONG HAIR FROM A HALOWEEN WIG STUCK IN THROAT. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION - HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/21/2004 | Age: 34 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| ALLERGIC DERMATITIS TO SCALP-C/O PAINFUL, ITCHY SORES ON SCALP AFTER HA VING SYNTHETIC HAIR WEAVE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/22/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| HAIR EXTENSIONS CAUSED SCALP INJURY DX: HEAD PAIN CHI |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/24/2004 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PATIENT'S FACE WAS SWELLING, CELLULITIS AFTER USING ARTIFICIAL HAIR TO BRAID HER HAIR. DX-ALLERGIC REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/22/2004 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces, Hot water |
| PT JUMPED WHEN HAIR BRAIDS WERE PUT IN BOILING WATER - 2% BURN BACK |
| Disposition: Not recorded |
| Date: 05/20/2004 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| WHILE GETIING IMITATION HAIR WEAVED INTO HEAD HAD AN ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/11/2004 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PT C/O SORES/PUS IN HEAD AFTER WEARINGWIGFOR LON PERIOD OF TIME DX:SCALP DERMATITIS/INFECTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2004 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PATIENT HAD HAIR BRAIDED WITH SYNTHETIC HAIR, NOW HAS RASH ON FACE AND NECK; LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 01/21/2004 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| HAD HAIR EXTENSIONS PLACED 3 DAYS AGO CELLULTIS SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2004 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Shoulder | Diagnosis: Burns, Scald |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces, Hot water |
| MOM WAS DIPPING BRAIDS IN BOILING HOT WATER, PT JUMPED & WATER SPILLED ON PTS RIGHT SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2004 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| 45 YO FEMALE HAD HAIR EXTENSIONS PUT IN HEAD PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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