Head lice doesn’t mean itching and itching doesn’t always mean head lice!
Here’s a common problem not addressed at all by many
sources of head lice advice.
E-mail from a concerned and worried parent.
I DID MY DAUGHTER’S HAIR AND FOUND NITS IN THE COMB,
BUT NOT WHEN I COMBED MINE. WHEN YOU HAVE HEAD LICE,
DO YOU FEEL LIKE SOMETHING IS CRAWLING AROUND IN YOUR
HAIR? IS IT NORMAL FOR YOUR SCALP TO ITCH ALL THE
TIME OR SOME TIME?
I WENT TO THE DOCTOR ONCE AND THEY SAID THAT THEY
DID NOT SEE ANY THING, BUT THEY ALSO SAID THE SAME
THING ABOUT MY DAUGHTER AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN SEE
THE NITS, BUT I SAW THEM. COULD THIS BE SOMETHING
ELSE BESIDE HEAD LICE? I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH
THIS FOR ALMOST A YEAR, I WOULD HAVE SEEN SOMETHING
SURELY?
COULD I JUST BE IMAGINING THIS AND THINKING THAT
MY SCALP IS ITCHING AND SOMETHING IS CRAWLING ON
MY SCALP? I WOULD BELIEVE THAT IF I DIDN’T SEE
THOSE NITS, OR THAT’S WHAT I THINK THEY ARE IN
MY CHILD’S HAIR.
PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK IF YOU CAN, IT WOULD BE VERY
WELL APPRECIATED.
“ This situation is very common. You have a healing
process going on where the skin has been broken by
bites and scratches. The final part of the normal
healing process is often very itchy.
You can also have a mild bacterial infection in
scratches that will clear up. A mild medicated
shampoo for dandruff or a Tea Tree shampoo will
speed that up.
You will also have itching from the chemical the
head lice inject into the skin so they can feed.
These set off the classic histamine response that
comes with most insect bites. If this doesn’t
quieten down ask your pharmacist for a mild
anti-histamine like the ones you take for hay
fever and bug bites. That will tell the body it’
time to knock off the itching.
As with other bites the itching doesn’t stop as
soon as the critter is removed. We all know that
mosquito bites itch for days, even weeks, after
the bug has gone. Same for head lice bites.
Believe your eyes. If you cannot find head lice
or eggs using the NITMIX Wet Combing Aid
they are gone. You just have an itchy scalp for
some reason and it should settle down.
All the time you have not been sure you would have
had to guess, now you don’t have to. Perhaps the
certainty will help.
It is also worth noting that itching, and the
scratching that we see as a result, doesn’t start
at the same times as the infestation by head lice.
Humans are not particularly sensitive to individual
head lice bites and it can take SEVERAL WEEKS after
an initial contact with head lice for the-tell tale
sign of scratching to start. By this time several
generations of lice and eggs may be active on the scalp.”
Moral of this tale?
Itching doesn’t mean head lice and head lice doesn’t
mean itching.
Anyone round here not itching just reading that?”
Author John Owen, NITMIX Ltd
Head lice treatment and advice from NITMIX.
The All Natural Head Lice Removal System,
F.D.A Registered too!