The start of the school year brings memories of school supplies, reuniting with friends, and the ever looming head check for lice. In my more modern version, there would be a nice glass of red wine to accompany the scene. There are other treatment options.
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With the start of school comes the watch for head lice.
In a couple of dozen states, Michigan not included yet, there are lice that are resistant to over the counter treatments.
The lice don’t carry diseases, but they are only annoying parasites that are sometimes hard to get rid of.
False. Anyone can get head lice, young or old. The eggs attach to the base of the hair near the scalp and hatch in about eight days.
How is head lice spread?
And while they’re not considered a health threat, lice can easily spread from person-to-person. Plus, some nitpickers will even teach you how to delouse your kid’s hair yourself next time. It can also be spread by contact with brushes, clothing, bedding, and combs.
How to you treat a home or school for lice?
According to Kennedy, only the common cold is more predominant than head lice.
Until now, lice was typically treated with over-the-counter permethrin-containing products.
US health authorities have issued warnings of a new strain of head lice that is resistant to conventional chemical treatment. It is important to follow the directions very carefully.
There is a small chance that the lice will come back if there are enough eggs left behind, though. She says you have to comb through and take a peek at the roots, check behind the ears and along the nape of the neck.
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A visit to Lice Knowing You, a Mercer Island business, shows that lice is a problem for a number of families. In some cities, you can hire a professional lice checker to perform this treatment for you. Vacuum the main living areas, couches, rugs and auto one time and then forget about it! You can also try things like wet combing (apparently vigorous dry combing can send lice airborne via static electricity… aaaand now you’re picturing a bug riding a lightning bolt across the sky) or you can suffocate the lice with an overnight mayonnaise bath (which sounds like it might actually be worse than actually having lice).
