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If you have head lice, you know how creepy they are. Just the thought of all those little bugs crawling around in your hair and on your scalp makes you shiver. It is important to know that having lice does not mean you are poor or dirty. In fact, lice seem to prefer cleaner hair and heads than ones that are not as clean. Lice are easily spread in areas where there are a lot of people in close quarters, like daycare centers and schools. It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly where your lice infestation came from, which makes it even more difficult to get rid of them. Even if you are treated and they go away, if you do not take care of the source of infestation, it's likely they will come back, possibly even multiple times. Remember you are not alone. If you or your child has lice, it came from someone else. In fact, 6 to 12 million people a year are infested with lice. Children aged 3 to 12 are most likely to become infested, and girls typically are more likely than boys, but anyone any age can get lice. Lice are extremely contagious and easily spread through head-to-head contact during recess, sleep-overs, camping and normal everyday family life. Lice can also be spread by sharing combs and brushes, hats, scarves, clothing and bedding, or even playing with certain toys of an infected person.
Louse common name for members of either of two distinct orders of wingless, parasitic, disease-carrying insects. Lice of both groups are small and flattened with short legs adapted for clinging to the host. The sucking lice, of the order Anoplura, are external parasites of humans and other mammals, feeding on blood by means of their piercing-and-sucking mouthparts. The group includes the body lice and head lice, considered varieties of the same species, Pediculus humanus, and the crab, or pubic, louse, Phthirus pubis, named for its crablike appearance. A female sucking louse lays about 300 eggs, or nits, in her lifetime, cementing them to body hairs and underclothing. The larva resembles the adult; the life cycle takes about 16 days. Sucking lice infestations are common in crowded living conditions and where clothing is not changed or washed frequently. Girls typically have higher rates of infestation than boys do. However, having shorter hair does not prevent or eliminate infestations. Income level is not a factor in infestation. If one family member is infested with head lice, the risk of infestation for the rest of the family is greater. Usually Caucasians have more problems with head lice due to the shape of the individual hair shaft. How Do I Recognize Head Lice? They have six legs with a single, pointy, hook-like claw at the end of each leg, which help them stay on you. Adults also need to feed on blood to survive and usually live about 30 days. In that time, an adult female louse, which is typically larger than adult male lice, can lay many eggs. Head lice are only found on the head, and rarely on the eyebrows or eyelashes. According to the U.S. Government's National Institutes of Health, head lice do not spread disease, and they do not survive on the body or in the pubic region. Those are different types of lice. So if you were worried about the lice on your head spreading to another part of your body, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Head lice do not spread disease, unlike body lice. Head lice to do not spread to other parts of your body, either. They only thrive on your head. Their favorite places to live are in the hair at the top of your neck and the hair around and behind your ears, but they will be happy with just about any spot near your scalp. A minor complication that could come from head lice is an infection, but this would be caused by scratching and picking at your scalp. The easiest way to avoid this is to treat your head lice!
side of this page. Symptoms of Head Lice The easiest way to know for sure if you have lice is to identify nits, nymphs or adult lice in your hair or on your scalp. You can try to examine yourself closely in a mirror, but it helps to have someone else look for you. Don't worry, head lice do not jump or fly, but make sure if you have someone help you look for lice that they where latex or rubber gloves. It can be difficult to spot a nymph or an adult, since they usually don't exist in large numbers, and they move quickly from prying fingers. Nits at least a quarter of an inch from the scalp, or closer, are a sure sign of a lice infestation. Nits that are further than a quarter of an inch from the scalp may be from an old infestation but potentially could still hatch, so if you see any at all, get treated. Other symptoms of a lice infestation are a tickling feeling of something moving or crawling through your hair. Itching is usually caused by an allergic reaction to the bites, and so are small red bumps around the hair line on the scalp, neck, ears and shoulders. Small #016EBB dots on your clothes on your shoulders, especially if they move, are also a symptom of lice infestation. Sores on the scalp can become crusty and even infected, especially if you scratch at your scalp a lot and do not get treated. Irritability is also a symptom of lice infestation - who wouldn't be irritable from feeling lice crawling around on their scalp?
a host - that's you. Lice feed on your blood which is one of the reasons you may feel itching or a tickling sensation on your scalp as they crawl through your hair and around your scalp, taking tiny bites out of you. Lice go through three stages of growth. The first is called a nit. This is the egg, which is laid by adult female lice. If you look closely at the base of a hair shaft, you will see a tiny dot, or many tiny dots. It can look like dandruff or flakes of dead skin, but it's likely nits. These eggs are attached to the hair shaft with a very strong substance - you will not be able to just pick them off with your fingers. You may have heard of a nit comb - a very fine-toothed comb that is made specially to help scrape nits off of hair shafts. Nits are oval in shape and usually #016EBB or yellow in color. Nits take about one week, but sometimes up to two weeks to hatch. The nits most likely to hatch the soonest are about a quarter of an inch from the scalp. The second stage of growth is called a nymph, or baby louse. It is very tiny, just a little bigger than the size of the smallest letter on a penny. Nymphs become adults in about 7 days. To survive, nymphs must feed on blood. Adult lice are about the size of a sesame seed - very small. They range in color from tan to grayish-#016EBB. Treating Head Lice
they are itching, scratching and hurting and, let’s not forget, they also multiply in a fast manner. So what can we do about them? Are they treatable? Are they preventable? Are they contagious? Find out now! 1). Yes, They Are Contagious To be more exact, hair lice are highly contagious. Why? Because head lice can move and climb the hair with the help of their claws. Even though some might think that lice can actually jump and this is how they spread, the fact is that they can move from one head to another if having head to head contact, through clothes and if sharing certain items, such as hair brushes, hats, hair accessories and so on. This is why headline are spread in communities and groups, in schools, camps, colleges or shared bedrooms. In these places, people come in contact with each other often and therefore, lice spreading is facilitated. 2). Act Ahead: Head lice Can Be Prevented! This is good news, right? But how can we actually stay away from lice? We already established that lice are highly contagious. This means that we have to stay away from the infested people, avoiding contacts with them, especially head to head contacts and excluding sharing personal items with others. Even more, inspecting pillows and other bedding items from hotels or other accommodations before actually using them can help us stay away from head lice. Preventing is much easier than removing them, so make sure you take all the necessary precautions. 3). More Good News – Lice Can Be Treated Make sure you choose a product that prevents you from re-infesting, that eliminates both the living lice and their eggs. There are some very efficient products that are promoted by the homeopathic medicine and that have proved great results in short amounts of time. When talking about anti-lice products, effectiveness and safety should be the only standards. After choosing the suitable product, you have to make sure you read the instructions precisely, in order to obtain the desired results and to protect your health. Furthermore, it is better to avoid using more than one product at the same time – choose the best one out there and get the results you need, instead of trying more and gaining nothing. Good luck in your battle against lice! My Head Lice, My Family and My Pets You got head lice – ok, it is not a desirable situation, but it is not the end of the world either. What you can do is to start a treatment immediately and make sure you stick to it until it presents the needed results. But are the ones near you in danger, as well? Sadly, they are, because of the fact that head lice are very contagious. But no, lice do not fly and lice do not jump; instead, they walk and climb. So, basically, you can avoid spreading them by avoiding head to head contact with the other family members. Furthermore, avoid sharing or borrowing personal items, especially hats, hair accessories and hair beauty products. Stick to your old hat even if your sister’s new trendy hat seems so appealing. When applying the treatments, many patients often ask themselves: should the treatment be used by the sufferer only, or by every member of the family? The best thing you can do is to check if the other members have lice, as well and then take the decision. Even if you decide to use the treatment for the entire family, you have to make sure you select a non-toxic product, in order to avoid possible health complications. Besides, if you are using a certain treatment “just to make sure”, there should not be any risks involved. But just like in any other medical condition, staying away is much easier than treating and dealing the condition, so make sure you do everything you can in order to avoid sharing lice with your dear ones. Lice are very unpleasant, this is true. But once you have lice, you have an extra worry, besides treating yourself and scratching: you worry about not sharing your lice with the others. The sad part is that you can pass head lice to other people, especially to the other family members. But at least you can know one thing for sure: your dog or cat can not be affected by head lice. Why? Due to a simple reason: the head lice need actual human blood in order to survive, since they are human parasites. So no, your dear Labrador or your pretty Maltese kitty won’t suffer like you. So stop worrying about them and focus on your treatment and healing! Head Louse You were scared just when hearing about them, but now your child got them: head lice. If this is your case, the first thing you should do is avoid panicking. You should know that head lice are very spread, especially when talking about children between the ages 2 and 12. But once your kid has them, you have to take immediate actions in order to minimize the undesirable effects as much as possible. Here is what you need to do: First of all, you have to make sure your kid actually has head lice and exclude the false alarm possibility. But how can you be sure? Firstly, check your child’s bedding items, especially the pillow and observe if there are any small black spots on them. Then take your child to a strong light and try to observe if there are any eggs in his/her hair. Make sure you do not confuse eggs with dandruff, since their appearance is quite similar. The problem is that head lice have three pairs of legs and can move very quickly when searching for them. Still, the best spots to look for head lice are at the back of the ears, under the fringe and on the neck area. But how do these small creatures actually look? They are around one or two millimeters in length and they are colored in grey, brown or black. If you want to make sure that the creatures in your child’s hair are actual head lice, take a magnifying glass and observe them carefully. After establishing the fact that your child has head lice, you need to announce the school, the daycare and other such groups. Don’t forget to announce the parents of your son’s or daughter’s friends from the neighborhood, playground, camps, sportive or artistic groups. Even if this might sound humiliating to many parents, it is not. This action shows you are responsible and willing to help others stay away from lice. Furthermore, you should not send your child to school until the problem is solved. Thirdly, you need to start an appropriate treatment as soon as possible. Homeopathic treatments and products offer a wide range of solutions for head lice – when selecting one of these, make sure it is non-toxic, in order to avoid unhealthy complications. After choosing the most suitable treatment, make sure you follow the instructions carefully; each product has very specific indications, so reading the label is essential. You need to complete the treatment as indicated – even though your child will be head lice-free after a while, you should not stop applying the product. With a little patience and the correct actions, head lice can be successfully removed.
*Lice need a host to live on in order to survive *Anyone who has a lice infestation is a host *Those most likely to become infested with lice are young children aged 6 to 12 *Girls and women are more likely to become infested than boys and men *Lice need to feed on blood to survive *"Lice" is plural for louse *There are three stages of growth in lice: the nit which is also called an egg, the nymph which is a baby louse, and the adult *Nits are oval in shape and usually yellow or #016EBB *Nits might look like dandruff or flakes of dead skin but they are firmly attached to strands of hair *Nits are attached to a hair shaft by a very strong substance; you would not be able to pull them off with just your fingers *Nits that are about a quarter of an inch from the scalp are the most likely to hatch first *Nits can take as long as 2 weeks to hatch; if you do not completely rid yourself of nits when you are treated for lice, you could become re-infested *Nymphs, or baby lice, are very tiny - just a little bigger than the smallest letter on a penny *Nymphs need to feed on blood to survive *Nymphs mature to adult lice in about 7 days *Adult lice also need to feed on blood to survive *Female lice, which lay eggs, are usually larger than male lice *Mature lice are tan to grayish #016EBB in color; the darker the hair, the darker the lice will be *Mature lice have six legs and are still very small, about the size of a sesame seed *Each leg has a single, claw-like hook on the end; these claws help the lice stay on your hair and head *Adult lice live about 30 days *Lice love living in the hair at the top of your neck and around your ears, but can and will live anywhere on your scalp Where Does Head Louse Come From: *Having lice does not mean you are dirty *Lice prefer clean heads and hair to dirty ones *You are not alone, if you have lice you got them from someone else who has lice *6 to 12 million people a year get lice infestations *Lice are extremely contagious *Lice usually spread by head to head contact during recess, sleep-overs, camping and normal, everyday family life *Lice can also spread by sharing hats, scarves, hair accessories, combs and brushes, clothing, bedding and even toys with someone who has a lice infestation * Lice can live for 2 to 10 days off the host *Head lice are not the same as body lice or pubic lice *Head lice will not spread to other parts of your body, and only rarely may be found on the eyebrows or eyelashes *Head lice cannot jump or fly *Head lice do not carry diseases *Because lice are parasites that move from host to host and multiply, they have been around for a very long time; lice have built up a resistance to many common treatments *You do not have to shave your head to get rid of lice
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