According to Professor Hermann Feldmeier from Charite hospital’s Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene, children between the ages of eight and 11, as well as teenage girls, are increasingly getting head lice. “Girls like to put their heads together when they take selfies,” Feldmeier told health magazine Apotheken Umschau in its latest edition. Lice almost always take the opportunity to jump onto the next head when there is direct hair contact. “Already after four hours without blood, lice are so parched that they cannot suck any more,” Feldmeier explained. Therefore parents often unnecessarily do too much to disinfect sheets and clothing after their children have had lice.

Source: The Local March 16, 2017 09:33 UTC