Warning after huge number of young men infected with ringworm from barbers

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1. The one in our village is filthy. Must be all the dirty cash.

2. I find barbers and even salons to be pretty gross. There used to be cleaning of tools between customers, but that seems to have gone by the way side.

   Ringworm isn’t anything serious. You can buy a cream, cheap from your local chemists.

3. Got ringworm once from dirty mats at bjj. Just itchy but took forever to get rid off.

   Bet I can guess which barbers are the main culprit. The ones that seems to open 5 in every town and village and take cash only

4. A virtually fact free article from the Mirror – what a surprise. No actual evidence or figures for any increase in ringworm just a “reported” rise and someone who runs a barbering training academy reportedly saying something about the amount of skin fades again with no evidence.

5. I enjoy making this diagnosis. I used to simply call it a “minor tinea infection” which would not be especially illuminating for the punters but the word “minor” always goes down well. Especially when I told them it’d clear up with some cream.

   Then I realised that a lot of people are absolutely *horrified* when I call it ringworm. The term is not only not illuminating it seems to be an active misdirection, since of course the person in question has not been infected by an invasive, subcutaneous Hellminth. But still, the reactions can be priceless.

   “EWWW. What do you mean I’ve got a **worm?!**”

6. Disgusting.

   Any business that works with people’s skin or hair should have its tools cleaned and disinfected after each customer.

7. Been down voted on here regularly for pointing out that most of these so called Turkish barbers aren’t trained barbers and that is why they take so long to give a haircut, its not them being perfectionists its them not knowing what they’re doing

8. Ironic that. Go to a barber to get a nice haircut and comeback with ringworm that causes hair loss to say the least.

9. Just teach yourself how to fade and trim, sure you’ll look like a plum a few times but it saves money and apparently, ringworm lol

10. I wonder why I have 6 barbers in my small town that’s all I will say.

11. It’s a fungal infection. Should be called ringshroom.

12. When we came to UK last year, we could only find Turkish barbers and they always did a crap job with my husbands hair. We took our son once too and had to ask them to stop midway because of how much he was crying and how bad they were with kids. Also too many people in the shop at any given time, hair flying all around, just overall too overwhelming.
    Then we finally found a great guy nearby who has been doing this for years (an English guy). And boy my husband finally looked like himself after a haircut ! We also took my son and he had a great time too! That man was so good with him!

13. Aha! Now we know why they are so cheap and so ubiquitous. It’s all a ploy of big ring worm.

14. For those who will benefit from hearing it: order some Daktarin off Amazon and apply it (will probably only need to do once), then start using Halo anti fungal washing liquid (Sainsburys sell it) so it doesn’t come back.

15. Of course they do. No one wants to pay 30 quid every week on haircuts so you gotta ask boss man.

16. I taught myself to cut my own hair during lockdown. I haven’t visited a barber since. I must have saved a fortune.

17. Can confirm this happened to my son’s friend at school. Poor lad got ringworm and there was an outbreak from one of these local ‘Turkish barbers’.

18. “A government spokesperson told The Mirror: “We have no plans to regulate the hairdressing sector, however we will always seriously consider evidence when it’s provided. We work closely with the industry to address skills and training needs, and HMRC is also working to tackle tax fraud in the sector.”

    This is one of the main problems, a lack of regulation. This government and the previous government has little to no interest in regulating the hair and beauty sector. Non invasive cosmetic procedures like lip fillers and Botox aren’t regulated that much. That means that a lot of injectors haven’t had the necessary training to be able to do fillers on a client. Most of these injectors go on a one day unregulated online course and think that is enough to then be able to give people lip fillers. Then you see people with permanent scarring and infections caused by improperly delivered filler/Botox and having to get it removed or treated by doctors.

    So if you have all of these barbers suddenly popping up (probably being used as money laundering fronts) on the high street, who haven’t had the proper training, don’t know the correct hygiene procedures, then yeah you’re going to get cases like this. I honestly don’t understand why the government doesn’t want to regulate this industry when there have been campaigns for regulations for things like non invasive cosmetic procedures.

19. PSA: Ringworm isn’t actually caused by worms, but a group of fungi called Dermatophytes.

20. I wonder if it’s because of the new taper fade trend. A barbershop that I visited with my son used a foil razor directly on his skin to get the hair free look. With regular combs for the clippers, they could be disinfected, but the razors they were using looked like they couldn’t be.

21. The barber I used to go to had 4 sets of owners in 2 years. Everytime I noticed it change hands they had no knowledge of the previous owners. The first time I went in there I got a great haircut, every change of ownership they got worse. The new owners had always moved from a foreign country. I was confused why someone would move to my small town instead of a city and always had a brother or friend who was local. Conviced it is an immigration scam thing

22. Counterpoint. The Kurdish barbers in my town is great and very clean.

23. Maybe the government should crack down on all these dodgy barbers that have popped up over the past 5 years before they incompetently spread something more serious than ringworm.

24. Most these Turkish barbers are fronts for money laundering how is it u can have nearly every shop on a high street closed but have 3-4 Turkish barbers within walking distance of each other

25. Can confirm. I currently have ringworm on my cheeek a week after getting a beard trim at the barber.

26. If they spent less time laundering money and more time laundering their clippers…

27. Fun fact that we found out when my wife’s cat had ringworm: It shows up under blacklight!

28. Barber for 26 years.

    I can tell you exactly why this is on the rise. It’s 2 reasons.

    1, The massive influx of untrained, inexperienced “turkish” Barbers. I use the term “Turkish” very loosely as not all are actually from Turkey. Not only are the vast majority untrained in basic skills and how to clean the Barbershop and tools, but the vast vast majority are tax rackets and / or money laundering.

    2, Barbering became the “cool” job about ten years ago. This led to a rise in small barbershops setting up “training courses” for young people. 12 week course at joe snip joint for £2k and you learn a Fade and the get a nice piece of paper saying your a Barber. They don’t teach the young people anything else, no scissor techniques, no instructions on disinfection of tools, no instructions on how to communicate to clients, no instructions on how to carry yourself in a professional manner. To me it’s fraud and should be banned.

    To any young aspiring Barber out there looking into our industry. Go to college. Get your qualifications. Do it right and being a Barber is a very good job to have.

    To any clients out there worried about this issue. When you go into a shop and don’t see a big blue jar with the word Barbicide on it and don’t see big orange spray cans with Clippercide on it just go somewhere else. These two products are the industry standard and have been for generations.

29. having worked in 2 different Turkish businesses I’m not surprised tbh.

30. Make your barber disinfect his razors and clippers. My barber does, but also because I’m black they know they have to

31. Apparently these barbers aren’t sanitizing their equipment between clients, that’s pretty nasty.

32. Turkish barbers and vape shops……..

    The easiest way to launder drug money

    They can’t cut hair because they have no training they are just the cheapest front possible for others to do what they have to do.

    A barbers has 20 customers a day but the books say they have 50 and that extra 30 all paid cash at £15 each. There’s £450 of clean money a day 7 days a week £3150 a week clean and bankable

    Now you know why every high street has so many barbers and vape shops

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