Head Lice Treatment

Head Lice Treatment – the available options

It is an oft-held misconception that head lice are only suffered by those with dirty hair; the fact that head lice can infest anyone’s hair – no matter how clean – is one that needs to be reiterated often in order that prevention of the creatures can be successfully maintained.

There are some important factors of the head lice life cycle that need to be understood before discussing head lice treatment, as the way it lives is part and parcel of how it manages to be such as a common pest.

Head lice, for a start, cannot fly: to move between hosts they walk – moving from hair to hair – and thus need close personal contact in order to spread. Once settled on a host the female adult louse, who lives for 30 days, can lay between six and eight eggs each day. The eggs being the famous ‘nits’ are attached to the base of the hair shaft with a cement like glue– and each egg will hatch in about one week.  Just another week later the lice are adults, and begin the cycle again.

This population explosion is difficult to control if left untreated, which is why we need to look at the various head lice treatment options available. A medical practitioner will most likely prescribe a medicinal shampoo, yet the chemical makeup of these is something that many people are unsure about.

Head Lice Treatment Alternative Remedies

The alternative is to treat head lice with home remedies, and these vary from the wacky to the proven.

While covering the infected child’s hair with mayonnaise or vinegar may or may not smother the lice, it does make a mess, and while many people still use this method it is preferable to look at one of the many herbal or natural treatments on the market. Also essential, both as prevention and as a head lice treatment, is regular combing with a specially designed nit comb to detect when they are present.

The purpose of these combs is to remove the very difficult to shift nits – and a quick look at one of the many head lice pictures you can find on the web sill show you how ably they are attached to the hair – preventing them from hatching and, as a result, reducing the population increase

Head Lice Symptoms

Head lice symptoms are typified by incessant itching, yet it is necessary – particularly if a child is known to be in contact with a sufferer – to carry out regular head lice inspections as itching may not occur instantly, but days after being bitten.

Head lice infestations are a sadly very common occurrence as the creatures are amazingly adaptable, and keeping an eye open for tell tale signs is a good way of being on guard. Head Lice should be treated.

Head Lice Treatment
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