Actress boards plane with head lice, triggers social media firestorm: What to know

Instagram users look to person questions and concerns aft histrion Jenny Mollen shared a video revealing her itchy caput lice find portion connected an airplane.

Mollen, who appeared successful the movie "My Best Friend’s Girl" and is the woman of histrion Jason Biggs, said she was mid-flight from Los Angeles to New York erstwhile she realized she had lice that was pointed retired by a friend.

Her Instagram announcement, on with a follow-up post, was shared by Mollen precocious past period but has made caller headlines and prompted users to dependable off. 

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"The radical connected that flight. Ugh… mediocre them," 1 pistillate wrote nether Mollen's archetypal post.

Actress Jenny Mollen (not pictured) admitted she boarded a level and learned she had caput lice, sparking societal media users to dependable off.  (iStock)

Another idiosyncratic commented, "Itching…from here…."

"I anticipation you told the crew," said another.

Mollen, who was seen with a integrative container connected her caput successful the video, said she had been scratching her caput for 2 weeks.

In a much caller video, Mollen is seen getting lice removal attraction and clearing up the contention about flying with lice.

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"The airplane spot that’s a bummer for whoever sits determination next," Mollen said connected Instagram, wherever she tagged the New York City-based lice removal company, Licenders.

She said, "I wanted to beryllium clear, I did not cognize I had lice until I was connected the airplane."

One idiosyncratic commented, "You should beryllium banned from flying."

"The satellite successful its oversharing era," said another. 

Jenny Mollen, pictured here, says she did not cognize she had lice erstwhile she boarded the plane. (Photo by Jason Mendez/Getty Images)

"Calm down, People! It’s conscionable lice," 1 idiosyncratic commented connected the video update.

Another said, "I anticipation you told the airline." 

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Lice are parasitic insects recovered connected people's heads and bodies and tin dispersed by adjacent person-to-person interaction that determination by crawling and cannot hop oregon fly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Lice determination by crawling and cannot hop oregon fly, according to the CDC. (iStock)

Christine Bonanno is the proprietor of Fairy LiceMothers, a nonrecreational lice removal work that has been successful concern for much than 18 years with locations connected Long Island successful New York and successful Austin, Texas. 

Bonanno told Fox News Digital via email that the astir communal mode to drawback lice is done head-to-head contact.

"It is imaginable to drawback lice while traveling connected an airplane. You would not get it from the airplane spot itself, you would person to beryllium adjacent to idiosyncratic who really has it," said Bonanno.

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Bonanno added, "the lone spot lice tin unrecorded is connected a quality head… An big bug volition crawl from 1 caput to different – you cannot drawback an ovum – lone a bug."

Bonanno told Fox News Digital that you tin get lice portion traveling connected an airplane, but not from a seat, since the bugs lone unrecorded connected people's heads. (iStock)

She said the astir effectual mode to dainty lice is to comb retired each the bugs, and it is precise important to pass with those you are astir truthful they tin beryllium checked and treated.

"The hairsbreadth acts arsenic a span for lice to crawl from 1 caput to another. So the little hairsbreadth exposed the better. Hair tied backmost successful a braid oregon bun helps," said Bonanno.

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Bonanno, who is simply a certified caput lice removal clinician, said definite scents specified arsenic lavender, peppermint, coconut and beverage histrion lipid could assistance repel the bugs.

Treatments at removal work companies similar Fairy LiceMothers typically instrumentality betwixt 1 and 2 hours but whitethorn instrumentality longer if it is done by idiosyncratic themselves.

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"We archer clients, ‘once a week instrumentality a peek,’ meaning cheque yourself for lice weekly, truthful adjacent if you bash get [lice] it volition beryllium manageable and casual to treat," Bonanno said.