Instagram users are left with questions and concerns after actress Jenny Mullen shared a video revealing her discovery of itchy head lice while on a plane.
Mullen, who appeared in the movie “My Best Friend’s Girl” and is the wife of actor Jason Biggs, said she was on a flight between Los Angeles and New York when she realized she had lice, identified by a A friend did.
His Instagram announcement, along with a follow-up post, was shared by Mullen late last month but has made recent headlines prompting users to mute.
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One woman wrote under Mullen’s initial post, “People on this flight.
Actress Jenny Mullen (not pictured) admitted she got on a plane and discovered she had head lice, leaving social media users speechless. (iStock)
Another user commented, “itching… from here…”
“I hope you told the staff,” said another.
Mullen, seen in the video with a plastic bag over her head, said she had been scratching her head for two weeks.
In a recent video, Mullen is seen getting a lice removal treatment and ending the flying controversy with lice.
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“The airplane seat that is so annoying to the person sitting there,” Mullen said on Instagram, where he tagged Licensors, a New York City-based lice removal company.
“I wanted to be clear, I didn’t know I had lice until I was on the plane,” she said.
One user commented that ‘you should be banned from flying’.
“The world in its oversharing era,” said another.
Jenny Mullen, pictured here, says she didn’t know she had lice when she got on the plane. (Photo by Jason Mendes/Getty Images)
“Calm down, guys! It’s just lice,” one user commented on the video update.
“I hope you told the airline,” said another.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), lice are parasitic insects found on people’s heads and bodies and can be spread by close person-to-person contact.
According to the CDC, lice move by crawling and cannot fly. (iStock)
Christine Bonanno is the owner of Fairy LiceMothers, a professional lice removal service that has been in business for over 18 years in Long Island, New York and Austin, Texas.
The most common way to catch lice is through head-to-head contact, Bonanno told Fox News Digital via email.
“It’s possible to get lice while traveling on an airplane. You’re not going to get it from the airplane seat, you have to sit next to someone who actually has it,” Bonanno said. said
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Bonanno added, “The only place lice can live is on the human head… an adult worm will crawl from one head to the other – you can’t catch an egg – just a worm.”
Bonanno told Fox News Digital that you can get lice while traveling on a plane, but not from the seat, because the bugs only live on people’s heads. (iStock)
The most effective way to treat lice is to get all the bugs out, she said, and it’s important to communicate with people around you so they can be checked and treated.
“Hair acts as a bridge for lice to crawl from one end to the other,” Bonanno said. “So the less hair exposed, the better. Plaiting hair in a braid or bun helps.” Bonanno said.
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Bonanno, a certified head lice removal therapist, said certain scents such as lavender, peppermint, coconut and tea tree oil can help repel the mites.
Treatments from removal service companies like Fairy LiceMothers usually take one to two hours, but can take longer if one does it themselves.
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“We tell clients, ‘Peek once a week,’ meaning check yourself for lice weekly, so even if you get them. [lice] It will be manageable and easy to treat,” Bonanno said.
