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Monday, October 24, 2016
Scratching heads lead to new business in Howe
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no longer effective." said Myers. "I spoke to a doctor in Sherman recently and when I told her about my business, she was so excited about it because there's nothing here." Myers says that doctors know that products like Nix and Rid do not work. She also said that they are Allison Myers, a Sherman native, moved to Howe two years ago after already aware that the the prescriptions that they are writing her and her husband Evan spent time living in Houston. With Evan also do not work. being hired by Pottsboro ISD as a "What she and I were discussing life skills teacher, she wanted to was that it's all about the nits. You start her own business. While in get rid of the live bugs, but you Houston and working 9 to 5 in the traffic, she decided that something have to get rid of the eggs. It's so important." said Myers. had to change. A friend of hers asked her if she'd like to start a In order to get rid of the eggs, career treating head lice cases and Myers has to scour the head and after first thinking it would be too weird, she gave it a shot. And after pick them out one by one. Hence the term, nit picking. learning the skills and crafts, she has opened her own business called Gone For Good Headlice Removal "It's a job." said Myers. "Once you take them off the head, they have to Service. hatch within two to three hours if they're going to live. If they're Myers uses all natural formulas going to live, they have to have a without dangerous chemicals that food source within a few hours. have proved ineffective. But she Lice feed off of blood and most of says the business is all about nit my clients have little sores on their picking. heads." "I've had families that have been struggling for four to six weeks which is the average time to get rid of head lice." said Myers "People don't realize the importance of getting rid of he eggs, also known as nits. You have to work to find them and for an untrained eye, it's easy to miss but for someone who knows what they're doing, it can be painless. Myers offers a 21-day guarantee that if the person gets head lice again within that time, they treat it an no additional charge. In the United States alone sees six to 12 million head lice cases per year from kids ages 5-13. That doesn't take into account of high school kids and parents. Dr. Kyong Yoon at Southern Illinois University says that lice have become immune to over the counter head lice treatments. "These same products that have been used for all of these years are
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Myers does not use chemicals for lice removal. She uses all natural products. One of her worse cases came in Houston when one patient used too much of the over the counter solutions and went in to shock due to the poisons in the formula. "They rushed her to the hospital where she had to stay a couple of days and when she got home, she still had lice." said Myers. "There are warnings on those boxes for a reason. It's a pesticide just as you spray your home. You have to be careful." Some of the ways of getting head lice seem harmless and insignificant. Myres says she's seen where head lice jumped from one backpack to another that were close. "You can go to a movie theater and the person that sat in the seat before continued on page 6
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