Archive for December, 2007

Is there an incubation period for head lice?

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Here is a very common question.

“My son is in the same class as a child who just
found out they have lice. If he is going to have
it how soon will we see it and when can I assume
that he does not have it? Thanks so much!

And the answer….

If he has had head to head contact AND a louse
has transferred then he already has head lice,
if a transfer hasn’t happened he won’t. There
isn’t an incubation period, you either have the
or you don’t.

Below is some standard advice
which you can follow to really check if your
child already has a little visitor.
Forget about killing head lice, just think–REMOVE

If you have a fine comb and can locate some oil
like sweet almond, from a health food store, or
even sunflower from a food store you can do a lot
of good right now by removing any larger lice that
may be in the hair.

Don’t use Vaseline, kerosene or mineral oils
they are awful to wash out and dangerous as
they can catch fire!

Just check before you start that the oil you have
will dissolve in your regular family shampoo by
rubbing bit of the oil on your fingers and then
washing with the shampoo.

Work a small amount of the oil into the roots of
the hair while it is dry and then comb gently with
the finest comb you can find.
You will get out an amazing mixture of rubbish
including big head lice and even some eggs.
10-15 minutes combing is fine. Just so long as you
round up all the big fat adult lice.

These are laying between 6 and 8 eggs, per day,
and are creating tomorrow’s lice. These will come
our very easily if you have them stuck in slippery oil.
Shampoo out the excess oil and chill out for a
couple of days then repeat the process.

You are harmlessly removing the lice that can and
will lay down more eggs so you have already started
to eradicate this population.

When you get your order switch to the NITMIX Wet
Combing Aid and this will make the head lice even
easier to get out.

Don’t be fooled by how simple and gently this is; it works!