‘Super lice’ outbreak hits 25 states

NY Post ^ | 26 Feb 2016

[fella]

strain of so-called ‘super lice’ has hit a reported 25 states, causing concern and frustration among parents because the bugs can’t be killed with most over-the-counter treatments. The treatments, known as pyrethroids, had a 100 percent success rate in 2000 against lice but now only work in 25 percent of cases, KSDK.com reported.

[Rufii]

When we were kids, we would tease each other about having “cooties,” but no one was actually infested with lice. Thanks to open borders, “cooties” are no longer imaginary.

[TruthWillWin]

Head lice or.......?

[UnwashedPeasant]

http://nuvoforheadlice.com

This is the website of a Stanford-trained dermatologist who recommends using only Cetaphil cleaser.

Instructions:

1. Apply the Cetaphil to the scalp using a condiment dispenser (example pictured below) to ensure complete and thorough coverage. And also soak the hair.
2. Comb out excess Cetaphil with a regular comb (not a lice comb). This is so you have a thin layer all over that will dry easily.
3. Use a blow dryer to dry the Cetaphil.
4. Leave the dry Cetaphil on the hair for at least 8 hours. Then you can wash it out whenever the patient takes a regular bath/shower.

You have to do this treatment 3 times at 1-week intervals. No need to comb out nits.

[Organic Panic]

“We can’t all live in a third world cesspool. So we’re bringing it to your neighborhood”

-Progressives

[Daffynition]

Who ya kidding? I had the pleasure of teaching 33 years in the inner city ....and when I walked around to help individual students working at their tables ..... I could see massive lice hop from corn row to corn row, while the kids’ heads were turned down. And these weren’t Latino kids.

Louse are not race specific.

[Doogle]

Talking about the influx

[Marie]

I caught lice twice as a child. The first time, from an animal (my entire family was contaminated. It was a nightmare)

The second time it was the normal lice from school.

My mother coated my head with mayo before bed. Shower cap. Then the nitpicking for an hour every morning - followed by a wash to get out the mayo. Repeat every damn night for a freaking month.

Frustrating for everyone.

[Laser_Ray]

“Segregation was what we called not letting people with the personal hygiene habits of a junkyard dog live next door to our neat green lawns and clean houses, or send their children to the schools ours went with their hair and clothes unwashed to after we’d spent years teaching them to take a bath without being dragged there and brush their teeth.”

-—Former town council member of my father’s hometown.

[Laser_Ray]

Heard someone ask me “is it theft if I snitch $10 from my roomie from Africa and take their bedding and clothes to a local coin laundry so they actually wash their (censored) at all?”

Struggled with the morals of that but I decided if it was what they had to do to not worry about losing all their dorm furniture to a bedbug infestation or getting REinfested with lice, that it was no worse than a judge ordering a habitual drunkard to attend AA and pay for it out of his own pocket.

[Graybeard58]

Remember - Don’t loan your comb to anybody.

[Neidermeyer]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Bring back DDT!

Several years ago kids at school came down with head lice, so the teachers sent notes for everyone to get lice killing shampoo.
I had some real powerful DR So-and-So’s pine tar shampoo for dandruff and used it. It was so pine tary I had to use dish washing soap to get it out of my hair. It worked!

A few months later I was in a drug store, went down the VET isle, and saw this bottle. DR So-And-So’s Pine Tar Shampoo for DOG MANGE.

Same brand, same name, same amount of pine tar, same bottle.

[Daffynition]

Bring back DDT

[Daffynition]

Olde-time docs would swear by pine tar of a host of ailments

[Joe 6-pack]

"I would start with vinegar (and lice comb) because it will also clean the hair. Then apply olive oil."

Sounds like a recipe for Italian dressing :-)

[HomerBohn]

Brevard County Florida gets hit with another gift from the illegal immigrants!

http://news.brevardtimes.com/2016/02/mutant-super-lice-infest-brevard-county.html