THE UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has alerted consumers to check product instructions on head lice products as some are highly inflammable and can ignite hair if near a naked flame.
A Drug Safety Alert from the agency has been issued to pharmacists to advise consumers.
Popular Hedrin 4% cutaneous solution (dimeticone w/w in cyclomethicone) has been at the source of most reports.
Ten cases of serious burns associated with the use of head lice removal products have been reported to MHRA since 2007.
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