By annette5002 on 07/19/11 at 9:31 pm
They say to do it if you want to, my doctor said to wait till I was 12 weeks, so I just went back to my natural color.
If you aren’t a natural blonde, brunette or redhead, you may be one of the hundreds of women that use hair dye as their secret weapon to looking beautiful. Now that you are pregnant you may be wondering if it is safe to continue coloring your hair during your pregnancy. The answer is probably. There have been numerous studies on hair coloring and pregnancy and at this point there has been no evidence that coloring your hair causes birth defects.
Even though there has not been any evidence of hair dye causing birth defects, we are just not sure of it’s safety. The first trimester is when all of your baby’s major organs are forming. Your doctor may recommend postponing coloring your hair until you are in your second trimester or avoiding hair coloring all together.
In 1978, the FDA proposed warning labels on hair dye that contained two coal-tar ingredients. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD found that rodents that were fed these compounds from coal-tar in certain hair dyes were more likely to develop cancer than rodents that were not fed these compounds. In this study rodents were fed large amounts of these compounds, more than what anyone would ingest. It also did not assess the risks of these components being applied to the skin. Other studies on hair dye have shown that only a small percentage of hair dye is actually absorbed through the scalp and gets into the body. Manufacturers have stopped making their hair dye with these ingredients but many have been replaced with compounds with similar structures.
Only a small amount of hair dye gets absorbed through the skin. This amount is so small that it is not thought to be harmful to baby. The research that is available does not show any evidence of birth defects related to using hair dye. Animal studies have been done with doses 100 times higher than what you would use on your hair. These studies have not shown any abnormal fetal development or birth defects in animals. There have been so few studies on hair dye and human pregnancy that we just don’t have enough information to say whether or not hair dye could be dangerous in human pregnancies.
By annette5002 on 07/19/11 at 9:31 pm
They say to do it if you want to, my doctor said to wait till I was 12 weeks, so I just went back to my natural color.
By mummydelicious3 on 03/07/11 at 9:08 am
OMg I really need to dye my hair i am 13weeks preggie and all those nasty grey hairs have started to come through!!
By deniselaura68 on 02/17/11 at 1:47 am
my sister had done a hair dye during her pregnancy and she was looking awesome...and there was no harm caused to my niece :)
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