Thread: hygiene part 2: lice

Microwaving objects which do not absorb RF energy well is a bad idea. Microwaving things that conduct RF energy well is an even worse one.

Originally Posted by Feng_Li

Put it in the microwave for a few seconds?

Ding! And Dinner Is Served

Isn't this all much ado about nothing? Good heavens, just soak it for a couple minutes in 91% isopropyl alcohol, wash in borax, then shampoo and condition and it'll be fine. That's the same grade alcohol I use to clean out an estate (used) tobacco pipe before I smoke it, and it works just fine.

Originally Posted by harold

I'm kinda wondering how one would nuke that possible source of infection (just like you have to clean all your bedlinen and seats/couch/everything.) :|

Just wondering since I haven't had lice since I was like 7 years old, but I remember the 'shampoo' to be the most biting toxic thing ever, which probably doesn't bode well for a brush?

Nuking seems a bit drastic though. Why would your SO or childeren use your brush? Children get lice from one another in school swapping clothes/hats etc. or rubbing head to head. So your brush needs to be very close to a source of lice to become colonized, I would reckon. Lice aren't long distance runners AFAIK.

Originally Posted by dennisthemenace

Isn't this all much ado about nothing? Good heavens, just soak it for a couple minutes in 91% isopropyl alcohol, wash in borax, then shampoo and condition and it'll be fine. That's the same grade alcohol I use to clean out an estate (used) tobacco pipe before I smoke it, and it works just fine.

Or put the brush in the freezing compartment of your fridge for 24 hours.