Anti-lice shampoo that kills your hair...

The 17-year-old seems to be a typical teenager. She plays in a band and sports a chic modern jet black hairstyle with a streak of purple on the side.

But behind the Cape Town girl's piercing blue eyes is a hidden shame that she has carried since she was in primary school.

She suffers from alopecia or hair loss, and her jet black mane is a wig.

Both Kerry Shield (not her real name) and her mother believe her battle against balding started after she used Gambex, an anti-lice shampoo, a few times when she caught lice in primary school. More...

See also:

1. Pruthviraj Patil, India's Werewolf Boy, longs for a cure...
2. The woman who lost her sense of smell...
3. India: the strange case of the girl who bleeds for no reason...
4. Young girls ... and strange allergies
5. The cause of Tree-man Dede Koswara's strange growths discovered?