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Dr. Marjorie Greenfield
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Hair dye during pregnancy
QUESTION
Can I dye my hair during pregnancy?

— 9/10/00 Chris from Cleveland

ANSWER
September 28, 2000
I get asked this a lot, and unfortunately there is no clear answer since there have been no scientific studies done to address the use of hair dye in pregnancy. While there is no actual evidence available that hair dye is harmful during pregnancy, many practitioners recommend not dying hair in the first trimester when the fetal organs are forming. Processes like highlighting, which don't contact the scalp (unlike hair dye), probably are fine because they don't get into the body.

— by Marjorie Greenfield, M.D.

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