Here’s A Really Gross Health Reason Why Everyone Needs To Stop Taking Selfies Right Now

Selfies in and of themselves could be considered an epidemic. I’m not going to waste time here talking about how the Kardashians have ruined society with their collagen-injected selfies, but I will say that there’s now a very real and very alarming reason to stop taking selfies…and it involves creepy, crawly bugs in your hair. Yes, I’m talking about hair lice.

via Women’s Health:

When your head touches someone else’s for a selfie, lice can crawl into your hair from their head, using their nasty little claws to grab onto your hair strands, says Claire Roberts, CEO of the Lice Clinics of America. Yup, we’re talking about those lice.
And Roberts says selfies are becoming one of the top reasons why lice infestations are increasing this summer, making us reconsider whether we really need another pic with our BFF in front of the sunset. Who actually wants to call in sick to work for contracting tiny parasites that grade-school kids get?

While head lice are mostly known as an issue for kids, Roberts points out that anyone can get them. “The primary way you can get head lice is when your head comes in direct contact with the head of an infested individual,” she explains. “Head-to-head contact like that doesn’t guarantee that the infestation will spread, but it gives lice the best opportunity to move from the hair of the infested person to your hair.”
And head lice can crawl pretty quickly, says Roberts, so it doesn’t take long for them to hitch a ride onto your noggin and make their way to your scalp.
Is there anything you can do to protect yourself? Roberts recommends trying to avoid activities that involve head-to-head contact … like joint selfies.

It starts with you, not the kids. The kids see adults taking selfies, they, in turn, take selfies with kids at school, get lice, bring it home, and spread it around to the entire family. If selfies are the devil then joint selfies are Satan’s army, because they spread the evil, and by ‘evil’ I’m of course referring to crawling insects that infest your hair and make you itch like your scalp is about to fall off.

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So, if you want to avoid lice because it’s fucking disgusting and you should avoid lice at all costs, then just stop taking joint selfies forever. Unless you’re this Cleveland Indians fan then it’s NEVER acceptable to take selfies.

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(via Women’s Health Mag)

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