First you need to understand how head lice are spread. They cannot fly, leap or swim. The only way they can spread is by passing from one human host to another. People are the only host they can live on so pets and other animals are unaffected by them.

Humans have a natural closeness, they hug and kiss. Children play fight, hug, wear each others hats and scarves etc and often have their hair touching. It only takes a minute of close contact for the louse to crawl from one head to another and begin a whole new generation of infection.

Although these bugs cannot survive for more than a couple of days away from a host, that can be long enough for one to crawl from an infested head to the head rest of a sofa or a bed pillow and get transferred to another person.

As improbable as it may seem this is exactly how the parasites spread, contact!

The adult of the species has six legs each equipped with a claw that it will employ to cling very firmly to a hair shaft. The females lay up to four eggs a day attaching each one with a powerful glue to a hair while it incubates. The hatching period is about a week to ten days so this is the optimum period to eliminate the little critters.

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To even find the lice you must carefully search, small sections of hair at a time and in good light. The eggs are tiny, somewhat similar to poppy seed but will be almost clear to pale off white in color. You should find them laid no more than about half an inch from the scalp surface attached to hairs.

If you have long fingernails you can draw you nails along the hairs dragging each egg off the hair but this is a very tedious way to do it. Plus there is a good chance you will miss lots of the eggs this way.

By far the best solution is to use a nit comb. The simple reason why is they are specially designed with teeth extremely close together that can trap and pull free these parasites. Using a comb you are likely to capture plenty of adult and young head lice along the way too.

A very thorough comb through followed by a good dedicated shampoo will soon have the problem sorted.

By James Lamb

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If you or one of your children gets infected with lice, it can be a frustrating problem to try to eliminate.  Many families try to use shampoos and other popular treatments and they think they have killed off all of the lice only to find a resurgence of the lice treatment in the hair within a week or two.  The reason for that is that once lice get into the hair, they basically live to reproduce.  That means that female lice will be laying eggs in the hair twice a day and those eggs will gestate and begin to produce new lice even if you killed off the first generation that has taken up residence in the hair.

The eggs that female lice lay are called nits get attached to the hair and that adhesion is quite strong.  Any one adult female lice can lay down dozens of eggs a week and if you have many lice in your hair, that means that thousands of nits may become part of the structure of the infected hair and each of them will hatch out into another generation of lice that are ready to reproduce and start the cycle all over again.

The first job is to kill the adult lice that are getting the process moving.  You can use natural remedies or more severe lice shampoos which will destroy living lice.  One important note about applying these remedies is that light application of the treatment is not going to be sufficient.  You must work the treatment into the scalp deeply and in many cases leave it in place for a while to assure that all adult lice are killed.  Many treatments even call for putting the application in and then sealing the head in a plastic bag to allow the treatment to work over night.  In the morning the lice killing substance is thoroughly washed out. 

No matter what treatment you use, you should plan to comb the infected hair at least twice a day and for as long as half hour to an hour with a quality lice comb.  A good lice comb has tiny enough teeth that it can reach the individual hair follicles to begin the process of removing the nits.  The eggs that are in the hair are the reason for all of our frustration because even with a all out effort to kill off the lice, the eggs will survive to hatch out in a week or two and then you have more adult lice and then more active eggs.

There is no high tech solution other than persistence and home treatment.  By sticking with the treatment every day for 2-3 weeks, you kill off the first generation and get them out of the hair.  Then each time a new batch of lice are born from the eggs, the daily treatment kills them before they can reproduce.  No eggs will last longer than 15 days so if you stay with the process for 3-4 weeks, you will kill all of the lice and stop the spread of eggs.  Then and only then will you be able to say for certain that you have cured that infected head of lice.  

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There is an amazing variety of ways to kill head lice once they get a start living and breeding on your scalp.  The urgency to kill the bugs becomes impossible to ignore when you feel the tingling of them walking around on your scalp or when the bites makes your head itch so much that it seems like it wont stop.  So the first priority is to get rid of those active lice in your hair.  Never mind the fact that having a head full of lice is disgusting.  If they are going to disrupt your life that much, they have to go.

Because it is impossible to number how many lice are part of your infestation, the idea of killing them one by one is pretty much out of the question.  If your child has come home with lice from school, you can take a magnifying glass and tweezers and pick them out of her scalp one by one.  But this is a losing strategy for total success because there simply is no way to get them all that way.

The only true solution is to use a treatment that covers the entire head at once and kills every bug in your hair once and for all.  Lice treatment shampoos do that and they are effective.  But these shampoos are laced with insecticide which is quite dangerous to the host, which is you or someone in your family.  It is bad enough to put yourself at that kind of risk but to put pesticide on the head of your child or the child of a loved one is simply to big of a risk to take.  Documented cases where pesticide based lice shampoos caused illness or death in children only emphasize that another solution is needed.

At the most extreme end of the solution scale is shaving the head of the person suffering with head lice.  This is not dangerous and once the scalp is bare, it is easy to wash the scalp and rinse away all of the lice.  Most of them will go out with the hair when you dispose of it.  But it is a drastic thing to do to a child and for a woman, the idea is absurd because it broadcasts to the world what you had to do.  If there was no other way to kill the lice, that would be acceptable.  But there are other ways.

The easiest way to kill off all the living lice on your head is to smother them or expose all of them to something lethal to lice.  There are dozens of natural ways to do this including mayonnaise, lemon juice, vinegar, crushed almonds and lemon and coconut oil.  Tea tree oil is a well known treatment for lice which has a documented track record of success and its totally safe.  By finding the right solutions to lice infestation before you have the problem, you have a game plan for defeating lice before they can take over.  And just having a plan to kill an enemy like head lice can give you and your family plenty of peace of mind.

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