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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 161665" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>You can treat yourself using my procedure - just do it blind, rinsing the comb in the bowl of water and checking the bowl (and the comb) to see if you're still getting any beasties. Then change direction with the wide tooth comb and begin again, same as for doing it for someone else.</p><p></p><p>At least it will help you get any animals that hatch out. Repeating the treatment as I suggested, will help you keep eliminating any more hatchlings before they're old enough to lay more eggs.</p><p></p><p>But to remove the eggs from your own scalp - you need other eyes for that. But as long as you have combed thoroughly and repeated it until you get no more beasts, you will have eradicated your own infestation. Any remaining nits would be dead or already hatched. Eventually they will grow out, if someone hasn't been able to remove them for you.</p><p></p><p>I've only ever had to do my own hair twice, and each time I was clear on the second treatment.</p><p></p><p>I remember being told about a description of Thomas a' Becket, who was murdered in the cathedral. Beneath his priestly vestments he had secretly been wearing a hair shirt, and it was jumping. As his body cooled, the lice were so numerous that his clothing moved as the lice desperately tried to find another host before the lack of body heat killed them. Onlookers believed that the movement of the clothes after his death was an indication of the man's saintliness. Or so my uni lecturer told us.</p><p></p><p>I am also reminded of a certain classic poem "The Flea" by John Donne, in which a lover tries to seduce a woman using a flea as sexual imagery, that the flea which had recently bitten him had just bitten her, and in the flea their blood was mingled as one, and shouldn't they follow this good example on a larger scale?</p><p></p><p>I think people's attitudes to such creatures has changed over the years...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 161665, member: 1991"] You can treat yourself using my procedure - just do it blind, rinsing the comb in the bowl of water and checking the bowl (and the comb) to see if you're still getting any beasties. Then change direction with the wide tooth comb and begin again, same as for doing it for someone else. At least it will help you get any animals that hatch out. Repeating the treatment as I suggested, will help you keep eliminating any more hatchlings before they're old enough to lay more eggs. But to remove the eggs from your own scalp - you need other eyes for that. But as long as you have combed thoroughly and repeated it until you get no more beasts, you will have eradicated your own infestation. Any remaining nits would be dead or already hatched. Eventually they will grow out, if someone hasn't been able to remove them for you. I've only ever had to do my own hair twice, and each time I was clear on the second treatment. I remember being told about a description of Thomas a' Becket, who was murdered in the cathedral. Beneath his priestly vestments he had secretly been wearing a hair shirt, and it was jumping. As his body cooled, the lice were so numerous that his clothing moved as the lice desperately tried to find another host before the lack of body heat killed them. Onlookers believed that the movement of the clothes after his death was an indication of the man's saintliness. Or so my uni lecturer told us. I am also reminded of a certain classic poem "The Flea" by John Donne, in which a lover tries to seduce a woman using a flea as sexual imagery, that the flea which had recently bitten him had just bitten her, and in the flea their blood was mingled as one, and shouldn't they follow this good example on a larger scale? I think people's attitudes to such creatures has changed over the years... Marg [/QUOTE]
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