Head Lice - It's True

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Tuesday morning I was brought a bug in a zip-lock bag. The bug had been just removed from a head. It was a, robust, adult head louse - judging by it's size. It appeared to be very agitated as it was quite active. OK, so I decided to perform a scientific experiment; school nurse myth buster if you will. After poking several pin-holes in the bag I push-pinned it to my bulletin board. Yesterday, when I left, the louse was alive and well and was still displaying agitation, flailing its louse arms wildy in the bag; I thought I noticed some obscene gestures. This morning I must report the louse has perished and, thus, my school nurse myth buster scientific experiment has proven a head louse will die within 48 hours if off of a human head. You have my express permission to share this scientific data with any hysterical parent or staff member.

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So you starved a poor, helpless louse to death in the name of scientific research??

I woulda just gone the squish/flush route :)

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Louse murderer.

I thought I knew you.:sorry:

I need a moment.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
Louse murderer.

I thought I knew you.:sorry:

I need a moment.

It was for science!! If it makes you feel any better I did play an endless loop of John Denver music to ease its passage into louse eternal paradise.

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It was for science!! If it makes you feel any better I did play an endless loop of John Denver music to ease its passage into louse eternal paradise.

Strangely, that does make me feel better.

And yes, we all have done things for science. :blink:

Post #866. Don't Judge Me.

https://allnurses.com/psychiatric-nursing/jacob-rockstar-rn-979458-page67.html

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Specializes in School Nursing.

Someone call the FBI, or call PETA or call the NRA or call Lice Families of the USA !! Call someone and report this horrible atrocity to a poor Louse !! This made me chuckle....thanks !

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Sounds more like a flea . . .;)

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You LOUSE-Y person, you!

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Specializes in Hospice.
It was for science!! If it makes you feel any better I did play an endless loop of John Denver music to ease its passage into louse eternal paradise.

That's just plain mean. [emoji33]

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.
That's just plain mean. [emoji33]

The slow death or the John Denver?

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The slow death or the John Denver?

Knowing Jensmom, methinks the latter.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
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You LOUSE-Y person, you!

It took a moment for the tail end of the slinky to arrive but once my brain clicked the front office came running to see what the commotion was. In the words of Larry the Cable Guy, "I don't care who you are. That there is funny." Thank You Snowy!

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