article_snippet.sent: My eyes narrow, those flowing locks are the enemy — a breeding ground for the bane of my life: pediculus humanus capitis, or head lice (a nit is the egg sac laid by the female louse on the hair shaft of those flowing locks are the enemy — a breeding ground for the bane of my life: pediculus humanus capitis, or head lice (a nit is the egg sac laid by the female louse on the hair shaft of their human hosts) human hosts).
article_snippet.sent: As those who have experienced it know, nit-combing is the closest most mums get to being a gorilla, grooming being a gorilla offspring for fleas.
article_snippet.sent: my daughters heads and mine were five-star hotels for head lice and no sooner had I eliminated one nit invasion, another would follow.
article_snippet.sent: Nits are the Forth Bridge of infestations, no sooner have you spent a good half-day combing the hair of a wriggling eight-year-old, than you have to do it all over again, and again and again.
article_snippet.sent: Over the past ten years, I must have spent at least five festive mornings hovering over my daughters with a nit comb, squeaking with horror as I extract yet another fat troublesome specimen from the critters hair.
article_snippet.sent: My nephews and nieces have become resigned to My nephews and nieces aunt doing a quick once over when My nephews and nieces visit — if I could install the head lice equivalent of a sheep dip, believe me I would.
article_snippet.sent: In New York, the louse-infested head straight to the nit pickers of Crown Heights — Hasidic Jews who comb every hair until they have eliminated they.
article_snippet.sent: Over here, there is a thriving service called The Hairforce, which will come to your house and de-infest the whole family.
highlights_snippet.sent: A nit is the egg sac laid by female lice on human hair shafts .