Irene Myangoh, a personal assistant working at a law firm in Nairobi
went to an upmarket hair salon along Kenyatta Avenue, and spent more
than N5,500 on a human hair weave.
Two weeks later she started
suffering from severe headache that would not go away. She would wake up
with severe headache at night. She went to a private doctor who gave
her drugs for the relief of mild to moderate pain of inflammatory origin
with or without fever; they would only work for a few hours and then
the headache would be back worse than even before. Desperate, she went
to see a specialist who did blood tests and even a brain scan. All the
tests were negative but the headache persisted, making her unable to
concentrate at work and sleeping very poorly. She went back to her
doctor who decided to examine her scalp and under the beautiful weave he
found worms!
The worms were burrowing into her skull and
after sending the samples to the lab they found that the hair had eggs
from which the worms had Irene had to shave after this ordeal and took
antibiotics for two weeks.
Elsewhere, 16-year-old girl from Buruburu, a
Nairobi surburb, also suffered the same fate but unfortunately for her
she died. Cobweb eggs were found in her hair after she died.
There was a profound cobweb design in her weaved hair. She dropped dead after constant headaches.
The
root cause? The weave had unnoticed spider eggs. The warmth produced
after weaving provided a very conducive environment for the eggs to
hatch. A spider grew in her scalp and bit her. The poison found its way
to her blood. She could not survive the attack.
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