PIGPEN therapy

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The PIGPEN therapy is an alleged treatment method for head lice published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2003 by the British doctor Trisha Greenhalgh .

Greenhalgh reported on an alleged randomized study of PIGPEN (parent-incentivized, graded, patient extraction of nits) therapy on 200 boys in a schoolyard. The increasing financial incentive on the part of the parents should have encouraged the children to search and collect nits as effectively as possible . The method presented should be an acceptable, safe, and cost-effective alternative to a chemical treatment option recently published in the journal. After a week all children were free of nits, but infected again three weeks later.

The name of the study was already a first indication of a joke, since Pig Pen was also known as a male figure from the comic series The Peanuts , always surrounded by a cloud of dust and referred to as a dirt magnet . The reading list consisted of The Beano , Harry Potter , Popeye, and Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life, which was also noted. Greenhalgh himself pointed out these circumstances on January 29, 2009 in response to the clarifications on the alleged disease of the cello scrotum in the British Medical Journal .

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