A mum has shared skin-crawling footage of a head lice infestation in a little girl's hair covered in hundreds of the blood-sucking creatures.
Sherri Richardson is a professional lice removalist and regularly posts her work in videos on Tik Tok as @nitpickerperth which rack up millions of views.
Her latest client was a young girl who had an outbreak of nits left rapidly breeding and running rampant on her scalp for two months.
"What happens when you refuse to sit so someone can nit comb? You get over run in just a few weeks," the caption read.
The clip shows the mum running a fine-tooth comb through the girl's hair, which picked up hundreds of squirming lice and their eggs.
"This infestation is no more than eight weeks old. Look how many different sizes there are," she added.
The video quickly went viral, racking up more than five million views and 81,000 reactions.
A follow-up video showed the nit outbreak had almost completely cleared up after just a week of treatment.
Head lice are small, wingless, insects that live in human hair and feed off the blood on scalps. Their eggs are called nits.
They are highly contagious and spread from head-to-head contact, with primary school most commonly becoming infested who pass the insects to each other during play.
Symptoms include extreme itchiness of the scalp, a crawling sensation across the scalp and sores or scabs from scratching.
