Dealing with head lice can be overwhelming, frustrating, even borderline traumatic for some people. There's so much to: wash, comb, and nit-pick. Throughout the process you're also doing research to better understand what has just happened. You're inundated with so much contradictory information and the list goes on.

Today, I thought I'd stop you in your tracks and give you some head lice history, that although it is NOT going to help your mission of ridding your family of head lice, it will (hopefully) diffuse a little bit of the stress you're feeling.
I found these 3 following facts to be quite fascinating myself. Happy reading!
Did you know that:
1. Dried-up lice have been found on the hair of Egyptian mummies…
2. In northern Siberia, young women showed their affection for young men by throwing their lice at them…
3. In Tonga, it was a sign of duty to one’s parents to capture and consume their lice…