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Julie’s family believe the mum-of-two may have had a severe allergic reaction to the chemical p-Phenylenediamine (PPD) in the product.
Her devastated father, Keith Miller, said: “I promise, for the sake of my daughter and other women, to get this chemical outlawed in Britain.
“I don’t want this happening to anybody else.”
Julie’s case came just weeks after Tabatha McCourt, 17, died following what is also suspected to be an extreme allergy to home hair dye.
While the exact cause in both cases is still being investigated, similar reactions have happened to a number of other women in recent years and some experts fear they are on the rise.
One such case was Zoe Vernon, 24, a shop assistant whose home hair dye session two years ago left her with such dreadful injuries that she ended up on a drip for three days in a special care unit.
Covered in horrific burns and weeping blisters, Zoe, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Source: Mirror.co.uk