Interesting Facts About China

Issues With Lice

While you may have had to deal with a lice epidemic in school, chances are that it was never as bad as the one in Ancient China. For most poor people, life involved living on farms in incredibly unhygienic circumstances. This naturally led to many people getting lice in their hair.

Because so many people’s hair was covered in lice, doctors actually started using lice in their diagnosis of patients. If lice were fleeing from the body of the patient, it would mean that the patient had very little chance of survival. This is because lice typically look for healthy organisms to live off of. Because so many people were covered with lice and had little money for food, they would actually resort to eating lice in order to survive!