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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 254
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2009 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| 7Y F WIG CAP WAS TOO TIGHT;DX CONTUSED FOREHEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/13/2009 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PT HAD A HAIR WEAVE PLACED A WEEK AGO AND NOW SCALP IS IRRITATED AND ITCHING. DX SCALP DERMAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2009 | Age: 48 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 TOOK OUT A WEAVE THAT WAS SEWN IN HAIR AND SCALP BECAME INFECTED DX. SCALP DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2009 | Age: 48 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, Adhesives |
| PT HAD HAIRPEICE WEAVED IN AND GLUE USED AND NOW RASH TO HEAD AREA DX: RASH TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/27/2009 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: Fire involvement and/or smoke inhalation - Fire Dept. did not attend |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Burns, Thermal |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PT'S WIG CAUGHT FIRED AND PT SUFFERED BURN TO SCALP. NO FD INVOLVED |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/03/2009 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| RASH TO HEAD AFTER USING SYNTHETIC HAIR BRAIDS DX: DERMAT RASH TO HEAD |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2009 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| PT HAD HAIR WEAVE IN FOR 2 WEEKS, TO ER WITH ODOR FROM SCALP, DX WOUND TO SCALP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/2009 | Age: 86 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Head | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Wigs, falls or hairpieces |
| 86 YOF HEAD ITCHES FROM WEARING A WIG CONTACT DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2009 | Age: 48 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 |
| RASH-C/O RASH AND BUMPS ON SCALP AFTER DAUGHTER PUT HAIR EXTENSIONS IN HER HAIR TWO DAYS AGO. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2009 | Age: 2 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 |
| AT MOM'S HOUSE- HEAD & FACE RED & PEELING, & ITCHING, FOLLOWING HAIR EXTENSION APPLICATION. DX: CONTACT DERMATITIS, REACTION TO FAKE HAIR |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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