FLUORESCEIN AND HAIR
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I just had to pass on this little vignette, appropriate to a coffee room
discussion.  I picked it up from the opthalmic photography list, optimal, 
which is a group of professional eye photographers.

>>This may sound a little strange, but here goes.
>>I have a patient that has had four FAs done since the beginning of February.
>> She claims that the fluorescein dye is turning her hair yellow, she says
>>that her hair turns really yelllow right after the test and then it fades in
>>a week or two.  Her hair has turned from grey to yellow since the first time
>>I saw her.  
>>
>>Has anyone ever seen this?  Is it possible, did we find a new market for
>>fluorescein?   
>>

>>Mindy Rees
>>Pittsburgh Retina Photography

Rhett Drugge, M.D.
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