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Head Lice – Treatments for Head Lice
Head lice (Pediculus capitis) are small parasitic insects exquisitely adapted to living mainly on the scalp and neck hairs of their human host. Their six impressive legs are elegantly evolved to grasp hair shafts and provide a striking example of biological specialization. Long associated with people, head lice have been recovered from prehistoric mummies.
Much to many parents’ annoyance, the head louse is a tiny, wingless parasitic insect that lives among human hairs and feeds on extremely small amounts of blood drawn from the scalp. Although they may sound gross, lice (the plural of louse) are a very common problem, especially for kids ages 3 years to 12 years (girls more often than boys).
With lice bites come itching and scratching. However, the itching may not always start right away – that depends on how sensitive your child’s skin is to the lice. It can sometimes take weeks for kids with lice to start scratching. They may complain, though, of things moving around on or tickling their heads.
Head lice infection is very common. It has been estimated that up to one in every 10 children in school acquires head lice at some time. In one study, the estimated annual cost of head lice infestations in the United States was nearly $1 billion dollars.
Head lice are parasitic wingless insects. They live on people’s heads and feed on their blood. An adult is called a louse and is about the size of a sesame seed. The eggs, called nits, are even smaller – almost like a dandruff flake. Lice and nits are easiest to detect at the neckline and behind the ears.
Lice are also important in the field of Archaeogenetics. Because most “modern” human diseases have in fact recently jumped from animals into humans through close agricultural contact, and also given fact that Neolithic human populations were too scattered to support contagious “crowd” diseases, lice (along with such parasites as intestinal tapeworms) are considered to be one of the few ancestral disease infestations of humans and other hominids.
Treatments for Head Lice
To kill lice and nits, machine wash all washable clothing and bed linens that the infested person touched during the 2 days before they were diagnosed. Wash clothes and linens in the HOT water cycle (130 F). Dry items on the hot cycle for at least 20 minutes.
Medicated lice treatments can usually kill the lice and nits, but it may take a few days for the itching to stop. Your child’s doctor may recommend repeating treatment in 7 to 10 days to make sure all the nits have been killed, to avoid any risk of reinfestation.
Apply conditioner to dry hair aiming to cover each hair from root to tip with a layer of conditioner.
Detangle the hair using an ordinary comb.
Immediately comb the hair with a fine tooth comb. The best comb for this is the Lice Meister comb. However, plastic nit combs with conditioner are also very effective for detecting climbers.
Wipe the conditioner off the fine tooth comb onto a paper tissue and look for lice and eggs.
Repeat the combing for every part of the head at least 5 times.
Also examine the comb for lice and eggs.
After treatment, check, comb, and remove nits and lice from the hair every 2-3 days.
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Last year I made a mummy out of foam board, newspaper, tea-stained sheet and styrofoam head. My dog ate part of it. So all we have left is the sheet and part of the styrofoam head. I want to rebuild her but make her more durable on as little money as possible. Already looked into broken mannequins and I can’t find any for around $20 or less. Any other ideas???
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