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“Greensboro, NC — What started as a trip to the beauty salon to get her hair braided, ended with two trips to the emergency room, according to Veronica Carter.
She went to the emergency room twice and paperwork she was given on the second visit states she may have MRSA, an infection that doesn’t respond to the usual antibiotics. She said she is taking four antibiotics, though.
“He told me it’s because the braids was too tight,” said Carter about her hospital visit. “He said her nails, anything up under the nail, if her nails was sharp or if she took it and tried to braid it and maybe cut me right here and I didn’t notice it.”
Like the idea of licensure. Please know that a license does not guarantee protection from mishaps. Most women, from all walks of life, have a stylist/spa/beautician nightmare story from so called licensed staff.
Please use commonsense:
- Is the residence, work place and person clean?
- Did she/he wash their hands before approaching your head?
- Are their nails trimmed and cleaned?
- What tools and products do they use?(Are they sterilized? Provide them if you’re unsure)
- Is it too tight? Speak up!
- Was the extensions(if used) packaged and sealed?
- Wash scalp weekly!!
- Do you use clean procedures when you take care of your own hair?
- If you have any skin abrasions/pain/sensations/unusual tenderness on the scalp, please see someone immediately. In the meantime, clean with antiseptic and add antibacterial cream. Take pictures.
Reporter: Meghan Packer
Source: Digitrade.com
Protective styling is a cornerstone in most natural hair care routines, especially if overall health and length retention are goals. In this post, I share with you some of the best types of styles to use when protecting the hair, and criteria that you should consider when you are determining which ones are best for you.
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Most of those with kinky hair are all too familiar with the challenge that comes with maintaining a healthy mane. For different reasons most will resort to protective styling as a way to combat split ends and breakage that all type 4s experience.
Protective styles are ones that don’t consist of most, if not all, of the hair being worn loose. Wearing the hair in a protective style requires that the ends, the oldest and most fragile part of the, are usually tucked away and sealed with some kind of moisturizer. Popular protective styles include but are not limited to braids, twists, bantu knots, and shrunken afros.
Source: http://www.naturallycurly.com
