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Reply To: Children in the house, do I need to worry?

paper_lantern 2 months ago

Pubic lice are not the same as head lice and they are not spread by sofas and bathrooms. Casual household contact is not the route.

Wash bedding and towels on a hot cycle, which you would be doing anyway, and that is the extent of it.

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