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Monday, October 24, 2016
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Lady Bulldogs take down Whitewright
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The Howe Lady Bulldogs defeated the Whitewright Lady Tigers on Tuesday in five sets. The scores were 15-25, 25-18, 2225, 25-19, and 19-17. The girls lost at Leonard on Friday by scores of 25-22, 25-18 and 2522. It was the final road match for the Lady Bulldogs. Emily Sanders jumps in excitement. Photo by Michelle Carney
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you cause infestation." said Myers. "One single lady who had relatives far away took a flight and got head lice on the plane. It's not that you're sharing things. Head lice has been on the rise because of selfies when people put their heads together for a picture."
they are dirty. Myers says that the more clean the hair is, the more easy it is for the lice to lay eggs.
"They lay up to 10 eggs per day, but it's in groups. They might lay four or five eggs and then feed and rest and then lay another four or The State of Texas changed the law wheras if five eggs." said Myers. "They'll do this every students of public schools were found to have day until the day they die." nits in their hair, they weren't required to send them home. Girls tend to get lice easier than boys. Men who have very little head on their head can have nits "There are schools that do send them home if and lice will even nest in beards. Extreme cases they have live bugs and then there are might find head lice in eyebrows or eye lashes, schools that don't." said Myers. "In Houston, but Myers has yet to see that. it was a problem because they didn't. For the last two years, we've seen a tremendous rise "A lot of people go in to freak out mode when in the amount of head lice because of the they hear they have head lice." says Myers. "I laws has changed." tell them 'you're okay.' If the infestation is bad enough then they may have some infections." Myers says that the schools get a certain amount of money from the state per day per Head lice does not live anywhere but on student and if they are absent, that cuts in to humans. They do not burrow to get under the the budget. Because of that reason, they are skin, but just live in the hairs on the head due to not sending the students home as before. warmth. They are not seasonal and is a constant issue year round. "That affects their numbers and what a school might get financially." said Myers. "It "People don't want to talk about it." said Myers. has definitely increased the head lice over the "There's such a stigma. People don't want to last couple of years." admit they've had head lice because they immediately think, 'oh I'm dirty.' That's not the Myers says most of her customers have been case at all. We encourage people to tell their referral based because the business is so friends and teachers to make them aware." new. She travels to the home of the person who has head lice and treats them at their Her company, however, will not share convenient location. information with others without consent from the client. More information on her business can be The stereotype of head lice victims is that found at www.goneforgoodheadlice.com.
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