Lice
Lice is a non-winged insect with six legs, each of which ends with a twisted claw that helps it to cling to the human and animal hair. The parasite lives with no food other than the blood of other living organisms. It is born and then multiply and lay eggs between the hair follicles. , Which protects them from the impact of weather factors, high or low temperatures, and food scarcity. The lice have up to 200 different species. Most of these species are lice strains adapted to live on a specific species of mammals or birds. There is a kind of chimpanzee lice, one for cats, one for rats, and three species that specialize in living on the human body, Head (scalp specialist), body lice (mostly chest and armpit hair), and pubic lice. When lice disease becomes part of the body, it becomes difficult to get rid of; it proliferate quickly, hiding in its small size between the folds of hair, and clinging to the scalp tightly, making it impossible to shave it with the fingers, strong winds, or extreme shaking.
Lice infection
Many children face the problem of lice, especially in the four to seven year olds. Lice is a disease that is easily transmitted among people. Sharing personal objects (such as hair comb, hair scissors, or hats) Lice from one person to another, and it may move immediately upon contact with other people, especially with the hair of their head, because it attracts specific types of insects, and children in the early stages get closer to contact with others during play and movement, Waddell personal purposes, and therefore becomes a transmission between them very much, and may reach the infection of them to their home so take you to adults and spread, and increasing rates of infection with lice in residential areas is clean and non-preserved.
One of the things and personal tools through which the lice can be passed from one person to another, in which lice eggs (or so-called wolves) may spread in the person with lice, as follows:
- Hats, clothes, pillows and sheets, bed covers, and toys for children with fabric, fur or cotton (such as stuffed toys). Lice and eggs are also spread on the carpet and on any brush surface where the child can touch the head.
- In order to avoid the spread of infection again during the treatment, it is necessary to clean the things and tools used by the person who was previously infected with hot water too, with the washing of sheets and sheets also, and can be wrapped games used by the child plastic bags for several weeks, and sterilize all brushes and hair combs with hot water and soak to Hours, with the addition of a little lice shampoo to make sure it is free from any effect of lice or eggs, which can reproduce again.
Symptoms of lice infestation
The most important symptoms that you can expect to check for exposure to lice infection include:
- Persistent itching in the scalp.
- Lice eggs can be seen in the form of small white spots around the hair. They are similar in shape to the crust when they are immature. When using a magnifying glass, these eggs may appear very clear in the hair follicles in particular. They are brown when they carry the lice embryos; After hatching becomes translucent and takes the color of hair almost.
- Find full-grown lice insects between teeth and comb hair during combing.
- Rash or spread of ulcers on the skin in the affected areas as a result of the bite of the lice and continuous bite of the skin of the infected person.
- When looking for adult lice insects spread on the hair, you should consider that what you are looking for is a tick-like insect about the same size as a sesame, usually brown, but may be yellow or gray.
How do I get rid of lice eggs in my hair?
As for the treatment of lice eggs from the head specifically, there are several ways and means may help to this, the most important of which:
- It is useful at first to comb the hair well to ensure that it is not tangled with each other, making it easy to clean each chute separately in the next steps.
- After combing the hair it is necessary to wash it with hot water as much as possible. The higher the temperature, the better it will be to eliminate the lice, and then the head hair can be washed with lice shampoo (it is designed with a chemical formula designed to kill these insects), rub it with all parts of the hair well, For ten minutes.
- There are special hair combs to get rid of the lice, which are available in pharmacies and medical shops, and characterized by these combs that have accurate teeth made in a deliberate way that pulls the cups from the folds of hair even if they are well-stuck. The steps to use the comb are to hold the hair follicles one by one and comb them with the brush of the lice down so that the cups are lying on the floor or in a pot away from the body of the injured, and this process must be repeated several times on the hair of the whole patient, and can rely on eyesight to identify the follicles that have a lot of lice .
- After the completion of these methods, and to ensure additional in the elimination of lice, to pour a cup of vinegar on the hair and comb again with a lice comb, vinegar kills lice and eggs, and can be used in the hair dryer to dry because of the bad influence of hot air on these insects.
Prevention of infection
In most cases it is recommended to use the methods described above, or any type of treatment, at least twice, the second time comes after a period of seven to nine days after the first, and the goal is to ensure the elimination of eggs that were left after the death of insects Which may be frozen after the first treatment and the death of other insects. After eliminating the lice on the scalp, there will be no need to take any other action. The lice that live away from the human body (eg clothes or parts of the house) can not survive long without a breadwinner, and die within a few days. Take all measures to avoid infection again. It is possible to wash clothes and boil hair accessories from combs and bedding in hot water, it will be sufficient to protect them.