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WOMAN'S HAIR CATCHES FIRE AT SHOP - Was using gas to treat fungus
PAULA GORDON & CRYSTAL HARRISON, Staff Reporters
Gasolene is known for its usage with cars, stoves and other machinery. However, one woman who recently used it in her hair to treat fungus learnt that she had used it for the wrong purpose when she had flames flying from her head after the drier she was using to dry her hair caught fire.
The woman was at a hairdresser in Upper St Andrew when the incident occurred.
"Mi say the woman head patch out," said cosmetologist Kadian Smith
Information reaching THE STAR is that the woman who washed her hair at home went to the hairdressing shop to get it styled.
According to Smith, she was startled when she realised that a section of the woman's hair was gone.
"When mi see say all the drier a bun up, mi plug it out and push a tale comb down in deh and the comb bun off," she expressed.
According to the cosmetologist, based on the magnitude of hair loss she knew that the drier alone could not have been the cause.
"Mi know say a couldn't the drier do that so me did affi ask the woman if a something wrong wid har head," she said.
'liver spot'
THE STAR understands that it was only then that the woman alerted the hairdresser that she had rubbed gasolene on her scalp claiming that she had 'liver spot' in her head.
"Now tell me now if something coulda go so. Me ask the woman if she sure is not eczema and she say a liver spot, yuh nuh see say a mad woman dat," Smith said.
Liver spots are blemishes on the skin associated with ageing and exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun. They range in colour from light brown to red or black and are located in areas most often exposed to the sun, particularly the hands, face, shoulders, arms and forehead, and the scalp if bald.
When contacted yesterday, Dr Jephthah Ford said the skin condition is really fungus and not liver spot or eczema. In addition, the medical doctor said that using gasolene in the hair is dangerous.
"Some persons refer to liver spots as fungus and from time to time people use all kinds of things to get rid of fungus. I certainly wouldn't recommend gasolene to anyone to get rid of fungus because it is flammable," Dr Ford said.