Where Can Lice Live
Head lice live on the scalp. They have evolved over thousands of years and have adapted to an environment that is very, very specific to a certain level of humidity, temperature, and the presence of human blood that can all be found on the human head. That means they don’t venture from that. They live…
Read MoreWho Can Get Lice
Anyone can get head lice. Lice do not know age, income, ethnicity, if you are a boy or a girl, what you do for a living, if you have had lice before or if you have never had lice. All they care is that you have a hair strand for them to live on. If…
Read MoreHow To Get Rid of Lice Eggs
If you are asking that question you are asking THE most important question for treating head lice. Why? Because lice eggs are very small-the size of a grain of sand, they are glued and bonded to the hair shaft very close to the scalp, outside products cannot penetrate their shell, and they do not move.…
Read MoreLice Suffocation
One of several different classes of methods for killing head lice is suffocation. Lice suffocation is possible because lice breath air through the sides of their body in devices called spiracles. If you can plug up these spiracles you can literally suffocate the lice to where they can’t breathe and in a matter of several…
Read MoreDo I Have Head Lice?
Sometimes it is hard to know if you have head lice. Self-diagnosis is tricky unless you happen to see them crawling around on your scalp. The best thing to do to find out if you have head lice is to find someone help look for them. You can certainly do it yourself in a mirror…
Read MoreHow Can I Kill Lice?
There are lots of ways to kill head lice. You can suffocate them, you can poison them, you can dry them out, you can plain get rid of them. You can use herbal remedies. If you choose a suffocant, know that lice breathe air through things called spiricals on the side of their body and…
Read MoreHow Do You Know If You Have Lice?
It is very hard to self diagnose because you can’t see the top of your scalp or back of your head very well unless you are looking in a mirror and then it is even more difficult. You can have another person look at your scalp. You are looking for three basic phases of lice:…
Read MoreWhat Are Nits and Lice
Head lice are parasitic insects that live exclusively on humans. They live on the head and they suck blood every 2-3 hours from their host. They like to crawl along the hair, they’ve got claws that have been especially developed to hold onto human hair shafts and they don’t live very long if they come…
Read MoreWhat Is A Lice Nit?
Nits are a head lice egg. They are laid be a female louse. The female louse lays 6-8 eggs a day over a period of about two and a half weeks. A lice eggs takes about 5-7 days to hatch then they become a nymph then fairly soon after they become full blown adults. Nits…
Read MoreAbout Head Lice in 400 Words (or less!)
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