Hey guys, I had a quick question about body lice. Last october,

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Hey guys, I had a quick question about body lice.
Last october, while living under a bridge in Portland with other young, homeless, traveling degenerates, I wound up with a pretty nasty case of body lice. And the little bastards seemed impossible to get rid of - I didn't have the money or the space to boil my clothes / get rid of all my shit and get a new sleeping bag & backpack / cover myself in lice shampoo for 12 hours / whatever, and I was pretty fucking depressed so I didn't really care.

And the community didn't make it any easier. I wound up hitch-hiking to Haight Street, which is just a goddamn lice infestation all-around. All them damn dirty kids have bugs. Ppl I knew who regularly got debugged kept getting them back in the matter of days. Everyone else just had 'em and lived with them.

So a little less than a year went by after first getting the damn things. I withdrew from society and became kind of a hermit, living on top of a hill on the outskirts of society and raiding the dumpsters of bakeries for sustenance. This was still in Northern CA and the drought's been bad, so it was pretty fucking hot out, even in september/october... I was getting clothes from the dumpsters of thrift stores, but still sleeping in the same sleeping bag, still carrying the same backpack. Occasionally taking showers that housed-up friends offered, but other than that just kind of minimizing human contact and spending all my time either at the library or up on my hill, reading and writing.

Then the lil bastards just stopped one day. I have no idea why or how or what could of caused this. I'm not sure if this is a better question for /sci/ or /an/ but I figured I'd give you guys a shot, since this is the closest thing 4chan has to a health board.

Why would my bugs just up and die one day? Like, they completely went away. It used to be a itchy, crawly, daily nuisance and then it just stopped. Thankfully. Got a job and a home shortly after.