Julie McCabe, 39, (pictured above) of Keighley, West Yorkshire, died after she suffered a severe reaction to L'Oreal Recital Preference hair dye in Shade One, also known as Naples Black (pictured above, inset), in October 2011. She was rushed to Airedale General Hospital (pictured above, inset) by her husband but slipped into a coma.
She never recovered and died in hospital a year later. An inquest into her death heard that the mother-of-two had had visited the Crosshills Medical Centre, near Keighley, West Yorkshire, up to 20 times complaining of rashes, itchy eyes and swelling. GPs gave the estate agent creams to tackle the side effects without recording the allergy in her medical notes. Inquest hears it was 'inconceivable' she was not told to stop using the hair dye.
Mrs McCabe’s husband Russell, 47, said he had heard his wife ‘screaming loudly from upstairs’ after going to wash out her dye.
He saw her slumped against a wall gasping for air. ‘She said, “Russell, I’m struggling to breathe, I think I’m going to die”.’ He dialled 999 but became impatient with the emergency operator and decided to drive his wife the three miles to Airedale Hospital in Keighley.
Mr McCabe said: ‘I went outside and discovered Julie was on her hands and knees in the driveway, gasping for breath. I just thought Julie was having a severe asthma attack.’
During the short journey from their home in Cowling, North Yorkshire, Mrs McCabe lost consciousness.
Medics were working on her within seconds of Mrs McCabe arriving at hospital, but she had already suffered a major cardiac arrest.
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