A hairdresser has shared an extreme hair lice infestation that was found in her client's hair.
There are thousands of eggs and crawling creatures in the video she posted on social media - and it's enough to make anyone's skin crawl.
Rachel Maroun, 21, from Sydney, Australia, works as a head lice technician and shares clips of the most severe cases online.
One case she recently dealt with was a girl with extremely long hair - her family were struggling to get rid of the lice at home as they all had Covid and were isolating at different stages.
When she finally saw Rachel, it was clear that the lice had taken over the client's hair, with her family unable to quell them.
It took a whole day for the expert to remove all traces of the lice from her head - and Rachel filmed it whilst she did it.
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The clip shows the girls' long brown hair and then Rachel gets started on the lice.
She starts to comb through the bottom section first, which Rachel calls the 'lice nursery', before showing all the tiny eggs dotted throughout the hair.
She then combs through all of the hair, and after getting all of the insects out, she kills the biggest lice on camera.
One person commented: "Why did my head start to get itchy when I watched this."
Another viewer said: "My therapist is making me watch this to try and get over my INSANE fear."
Someone else put: "I would shave my hair."
"The client was thrilled from the moment I finished our first section of combing," Rachel said.
"She said she felt a 'massive weight' lifted from her hair and I don't blame her considering I combed out an entire family of head lice!
"She was extremely patient and very happy to have a thorough comb-through provided after all that time of struggling."
The client was left feeling happy and healthy, after seeing how shiny and glistening her beautiful new hair looked.
Rachel added: "Following the appointment, I instructed her on how to keep the lice away, giving her a longer period of lice-free bliss!
"I checked up with her one-week post-treatment to hear she was completely symptom-free and happy.
"The worst thing to do when you have lice is give them time, as lice multiply way too fast and become uncontrollable very quickly.
"The family of the client were left inside with very little materials to treat the lice at home, relying on chemical shampoos and cheap lice combs that had no effect on the super lice case they were struggling with."
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