Lice, a tale of woe
Lice strikes Simon's Rock again
by Patrick McKeown l Contributor
Issue date: 9/10/08 Section: Arts
Throughout my career as a professional child, a weekly occurrence was the take-home folder. Although the day of the week sometimes changed, it was delivered, without fail, to my house where my mother would spend a good ten minutes pouring over the week's grades and news, searching for something that would set the tone for the rest of my week.
In poring through these archives, there was at least one occurrence a year which dealt with the most dreaded creature in all of school—dom … LICE.
After the salad days of Elementary school passed, I thought that the scourge of lice had too. And then I came to Simon's Rock.
Within the first two months the terror had returned, rearing its nasty head to terrorize my friends, thusly cutting off communication for a whole two days.
Now, nearly a year later, the pests have resumed their reign of terror.
In fear I ran to the nurse's station, desperate for my paranoia to be squashed. I went to see Jodi Tuller, who filled me in on the beast behind the myth.
My fears were certainly lessened when she told me that their only weapon was annoyance, and I know plenty of people who have stronger forms of this, so I figure I'll be okay, for now.
For those whose immunity is not as built up as mine, Jodi said that the best weapon is Nix, a pediculicide.
This is a form of insecticide used specifically to kill lice. However, when waiting too long, they start to bite and it is possible that secondary infection may be caught.
Lice tend to thrive in warmer areas at which point they emerge to feed on human scalp. While in this new home they lay eggs which take around 10 days to hatch. After the eggs hatch, the lice migrate from head to head and sending everyone within a mile proximity screaming towards the nurses' station.
Although these lice seem bad, put it into perspective. In small, cloistered areas like homeless shelters, another type of louse emerges, body lice.
This form of the pest has been shown to spread disease. When having body lice it is harder to treat as the threat of lice have moved from a localized area and are harder to find.
In perspective the threat of head lice is much more tame than its body-hair dwelling cousin, but is no excuse not to get checked and get some Nix.
Trying to find the truth from all areas I interviewed a past victim who lived to tell his story.
My personal experience with lice came through one of my friends whose hair was so thick it broke two combs before exterminating all of the eggs which had been laid. In order to fully cleanse the room, he washed all of his clothes, sheets, and all other cloth even when they weren't clean.
After combing and scrubbing with Nix, the lice were gone. This is a small sacrifice so that all of the victim's friends don't attract lice and lawsuits.
In poring through these archives, there was at least one occurrence a year which dealt with the most dreaded creature in all of school—dom … LICE.
After the salad days of Elementary school passed, I thought that the scourge of lice had too. And then I came to Simon's Rock.
Within the first two months the terror had returned, rearing its nasty head to terrorize my friends, thusly cutting off communication for a whole two days.
Now, nearly a year later, the pests have resumed their reign of terror.
In fear I ran to the nurse's station, desperate for my paranoia to be squashed. I went to see Jodi Tuller, who filled me in on the beast behind the myth.
My fears were certainly lessened when she told me that their only weapon was annoyance, and I know plenty of people who have stronger forms of this, so I figure I'll be okay, for now.
For those whose immunity is not as built up as mine, Jodi said that the best weapon is Nix, a pediculicide.
This is a form of insecticide used specifically to kill lice. However, when waiting too long, they start to bite and it is possible that secondary infection may be caught.
Lice tend to thrive in warmer areas at which point they emerge to feed on human scalp. While in this new home they lay eggs which take around 10 days to hatch. After the eggs hatch, the lice migrate from head to head and sending everyone within a mile proximity screaming towards the nurses' station.
Although these lice seem bad, put it into perspective. In small, cloistered areas like homeless shelters, another type of louse emerges, body lice.
This form of the pest has been shown to spread disease. When having body lice it is harder to treat as the threat of lice have moved from a localized area and are harder to find.
In perspective the threat of head lice is much more tame than its body-hair dwelling cousin, but is no excuse not to get checked and get some Nix.
Trying to find the truth from all areas I interviewed a past victim who lived to tell his story.
My personal experience with lice came through one of my friends whose hair was so thick it broke two combs before exterminating all of the eggs which had been laid. In order to fully cleanse the room, he washed all of his clothes, sheets, and all other cloth even when they weren't clean.
After combing and scrubbing with Nix, the lice were gone. This is a small sacrifice so that all of the victim's friends don't attract lice and lawsuits.
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tangledweb
posted 9/10/08 @ 5:51 PM EST
yuck.
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