A mother has issued a warning to all parents showing just how out of control a headlice infestation can become after just a few weeks if left untreated.
Taking to TikTok after making the alarming discovery, the mom, called Sherrii, shared a video of her a little girl's hair and admitted that it was "overrun".
Posting under the username NitPickerPerth, Sherrii shared the video to show other parents what happens when they don't regularly check their children's hair for lice - having regularly helped other parents with lice outbreaks.
Watch the stomach-churning video below:She wrote over the video: "What happens when you refuse to sit so someone can nit comb?! You get overrun in just a few weeks.
"This infestation is no more than eight weeks old. Just look at how many different sizes there are."
Needless to say, the video did not go unnoticed on the social media website, and at the time of writing, it has been viewed over five million times by horrified TikTok users.
One horrified TikToker wrote: "At this point, I would just throw the whole child away."
Reacting to the size of the lice, a second user added: "them lobsters right there."
A third wrote: "My hair is all of a sudden really itchy."
Sherri subsequently posted a follow-up video, and even it was stomach-churning, showing just how many lice can be missed even with treatment.
Watch what was left a week later below:She captioned the video: "Her 1 week follow up the last of the dead eggs and lice that were missed."
Reacting to the video, one TikTok user wrote: "Used to get it all the time as a kid till we started using teatree oil in our shampoo and conditions works wonders [sic]."
Another questioned if Sherrii ever got head lice herself, and she said that she did, but she combs her hair daily to prevent it from happening.
A third wrote: "you're so amazing doing this for people."
So, in a nutshell, if you have children who are refusing to let you check their hair for lice, you might want to show them these videos...
