I don’t take selfies because I don’t take pictures, and I don’t take pictures because nothing I’ve done thus far in life is worth remembering and having a constant reminder of that fact is beyond depressing. Wow that was actually pretty dark. Hmm. Maybe it’s time to break for a full hour of lunch already…but not before I tell you that taking selfies is apparently creating a super-mutant strain of head lice that are resistant to treatment.
On second thought, maybe I’ll pass on lunch for a bit.
Jk like I’d ever skip lunch. HA.
But back to the tiny bugs that infest your scalp and suck your blood. According to Daily Mail,
Wisconsin physician Sharon Rink has dubbed the phenomenon ‘social media lice’ and says it is being caused by group selfie snaps that cause friends to bump heads.
‘Teenagers don’t usually get lice because they’re not sharing hats and things like that,’ Wink told WBAY.
‘And lice can’t jump, so the only way they can transmit lice is touching their heads together, and that’s happening with all these photos.’
The lesson here is definitely to shave your head and never have hair ever again. Bald is beautiful just the same as how garbage pails are beautiful when put in the right light (aka nighttime). If you’re freaking out because you just realized your Instagram is full of head-touching selfies and your head just started itching out of nowhere, calm down – Katie Shepherd, founder and CEO of the Shepherd Institute for Lice Solutions, doesn’t think selfies really have anything to do with the increase of treatment-resistant head lice.
‘More and more schools are less proactive’ about the problem, Shepherd told Yahoo Parenting. ‘And more of the treatment products out there just aren’t working.’(via)
So regardless of whether lice are becoming more prevalent due to more head-touching versus schools not giving a fuck about their little rugrats running around with bugs in their hair, lice are becoming more resistant to over-the-counter remedies What can you do to protect yourself? Bitch I already TOLD you, way to not listen to me.
[H/T Daily Mail]