Teen dies after applying hair dye
A UK teenager who was dyeing her hair has died after suffering a violent fit.
Tabatha McCourt, 17, was applying hair dye at her friend's place in Lancashire on Saturday night when she started screaming and pulling at her hair in pain, the Daily Mail reports.
She was rushed to the town's Monklands General Hospital where she died from what doctors suspect was an "exceedingly rare" allergic reaction to chemicals in the product.
According to Tabatha's friend Heather Goodall, the friends were enjoying a "girlie night out", watching television when Tabatha began colouring their hair in different shades.
"The dye had only been in around 20 minutes when she got up and went to the bathroom. She came back a couple of minutes later, and then began frantically pulling the foils from her hair," Heather, 17, was quoted by The Daily Mail as saying.
"She started shouting, 'No,no'. Her eyes started going all funny and then she just started being sick. She looked just like a rag doll, limp, just lying there," she said.
According to reports, Tabatha had to be held down while Heather called an ambulance and her mother Carol performed CPR, but the teen died later in hospital.
A post-mortem examination is yet to be carried out but doctors have not ruled out the possibility that the death was caused by a chemical in the dye.
According to a hairdressing expert, Tabatha may have gone into anaphylactic shock as a result of the reaction.
Tabatha lived with her parents Margaret and Peter and sisters Tiffany, 15, and Jasmine, 11.
