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Bill, why is my eye twitching? Does this mean I'm in perimenopause? Where's my phone?

Juliana, maybe we can ask an actual human.

Yes, because I have questions and I bet you do too. Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that. And I still need to know why my poop's been green.

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Mojo in the Morning Show, 844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548. Text is 95500. What did you title this next?

Oh, she'll talk about Licey Lucy.

Licey Lucy.

Licey Lucy. No, my nine-year-old daughter does not have head lice, but she thinks she does. She is so paranoid about this because somebody at her school has lice. And I think this is the first time that she's ever even heard of it. And do you guys remember when you were little, if you heard of some sort of ailment or whatever, especially if it was going around school, you thought you had it. You became a hypochondriac. Like this is all your little brain thinks about. And this is Lucy. She makes me check her head every single day. We were at Walgreens the other day to pick up a prescription for me. And she wanted me to buy a lice removal kit. And I'm like, Lou, I have, I've checked your, your hair. You don't have lice, but she is just so terrified that she does because a little girl at school, you know, has had to spend a couple of days at home because she's got lice. And I had to laugh because as I'm getting frustrated and slightly annoyed with her, I remember when I learned about scabies in like fourth grade. Do you guys know what scabies is? I don't know what scabies are. I don't know what scabies are.

I always thought that that was just what you called the little boy that you went to school with. You thought.

I mean, it was explained to me in elementary school as like if you share clothes with somebody, it's these little bugs that will burrow into your skin and you get this rash. So I don't think I shared clothes with my friends for like a decade after that because I was convinced if somebody else's clothes touched me, I was going to get scabies all over my body.

And by the way, somebody just corrected me. It's cooties that I thought that you called little boys. Oh, cooties aren't real. Yeah, cooties aren't real. um what by the way uh we were last week with uh our friend kim who is a school principal and she said that the protocols for lice is different now than it was when we were kids i don't even know what it is because when we were kids with the protocols for with head lice was that the kid would come to school almost with their head shaved you know what i mean and the kid would but i think the protocols now are completely different i don't think that the kids are out

of school for a long time yeah i don't know i don't i i really don't know what it is um all i know is this little girl is consumed and head lice do you know that this was something that i i found

out uh too well after the fact because you always thought that the kid who had lice was the dirty kid no they like it likes clean hair yeah the kids who have the actually the cleanest hair are the

ones that have which is why lucy will not be getting head lice because she hates washing her hair her hair smells like a dumpster okay but this happened to me when i was in elementary school

I swore that I had lice And every time I would go to the office To have them check my head This went on for three months I had lice and they told me that I didn't have lice Oh and you did And I did It was the worst and I remember exactly where I got that lice Greenfield Village, don't wear the hats Don't wear those little prop hats

Wow I would think that that would be the case

So it took a long time to get out

844-MOJO-LIVE, 844-665-6548 There's a couple things that I remember from going to school I remember that they would do lice checks if there was somebody that had lice and then for some reason I always remembered this in school and you guys may not have had this but I remember the scoliosis checks do you guys remember at all that you had to do that you had to have Megan you had to do that

yeah so they would like take us into a room and

We had button-up uniforms, and they would have us put them on backwards, and we would have to, like, bend over.

Really? Yeah. By the way, was that a Catholic school? Maybe. Okay. No, because mine was a Catholic school, too. But I think it truly was, Scully, there was something with your spine to see if you had it. They checked it at a young age. And maybe all this stuff gets checked now by the doctors, and they just don't do it anymore.

We had to do a hearing test, too, at school.

I feel so bad.

Oh, yeah, they still do all that. I'd fail that now.

Yeah.

But it's one of those things, like, I get where Luce is, her little brain is going with this, because even, like, once we did the hearing test or the eye test, I was convinced I needed glasses.

Yeah.

I wanted glasses so bad. I always wanted braces. Braces, crutches, a cast. Oh, everyone's got that dang wrap.

Is it?

Their foot's not even broken.

But isn't it funny, though, that every time that a kid came to school with whatever their ailment or thing was, You know, whatever the thing was that they had, you wanted whatever that kid had, no matter if it were, you know, something like a broken leg or glasses. The other thing with the teachers that listen to the show, I feel so bad for them because not only do they catch every virus that goes around in their school, but friends of ours who are teachers have had to deal with like the lice thing. And then you start worrying about your hair.

Everybody's texting us that their head's itching right now.

What's up, Amanda?

So when I found out that it was the whole life, like, to go to clean head thing, I'm like, of course it does. Because I make my daughter wash her hair every couple days. So then I started extending her washes, like, or not extending, but, like, I'm like, don't wash your hair very often. But she ended up in elementary school getting it four times within a year. Oh, poor thing. Oh, my gosh. I still, she's not in elementary school. She's in middle school now. I have PTSD now. Every time she scratches her head, I get so paranoid still. But she doesn't have it. But for any parent that does have a kid that gets lice, there's actually lice salons where you can go and make professionals remove it. And let me tell you, it was my saving grace.

Wow. It was amazing. What is it? It's a lice what?

Salon. Salon. a salon where you take your child and then they even do head checks for the whole family yeah

there's one by the radio station called rapunzel's lice boutique that's where i took my daughter

they have one in ann arbor so i drove to ann arbor and took her there they did a head check of the whole family she was the only one that had it within an hour it was gone and we went

home life-free wait that's amazing and that's all they make their money off of they don't cut hair or, you know, doing any of that stuff?

No, it's literally just removing headlice, and it took so much stress off of us as a peer. Because, like, I spent, the first time she got it, I spent, like, four hours going through her head because she, of course, has bright blonde hair, which makes it harder to see. Sure.

Wow. And four times in a year is amazing, too, that she had to go through that. That's craziness.

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I'm Emily Oster. I'm an economist and data expert.

And I'm Perry Wilson. I'm a medical doctor.

And this is our new podcast, Wellness Actually.

You're getting a staggering amount of health and wellness information, and some of it is awesome.

And some of it is, well, actually, bullshit. Fortunately, we're both people who know how to read studies and can tell you what's worth trying out and what you can safely ignore.

Listen to Wellness Actually on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Bill, why is my eye twitching? Does this mean I'm in perimenopause? Where's my phone?

Juliana, maybe we can ask an actual human.

Yes, because I have questions, and I bet you do too. Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that, and I still need to know why my poop's been green.

We've got actual people answering these exact questions. Listen to Bill and Juliana.

The podcast.

On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.