Your child's lice - what to do?

Pediatric pediculosis is a widespread disease that must be feared and taken precautions, often looking at the child's hair. Let's take a closer look at you, what to do if you found blood-sucking parasites in your child's head.

Where do lice come from children?

Parasites can get on the head only with direct contact: through combs, clothes, bows, toys or bedding. Usually this happens in children's groups - in kindergartens, schools or day nurseries. Head lice live only in the hairline and die outside a person within 24 hours. If the family has several children, then, usually, all the members are infected.

What to do when a louse has a baby?

The most correct decision, of course, is to see a doctor. But then he immediately puts the child in quarantine and informs about it in the school or kindergarten. If you are embarrassed about this and do not want to spread the information, then let's talk about how to get rid of lice in the child yourself.

Means for lice for children in our time are sold in any pharmacy in huge quantities. When choosing a drug, be sure to observe the following rules:

• The medicine should strictly correspond to the age of your child;
• try not to get sprays, because some of the remedy will certainly get into the respiratory tract, which can cause allergies.

So, to begin with, plant the child and comb his hair well to release all the tangled ones. Then, strictly following the instructions, gently apply the remedy and leave it on your hair. Then again, comb the hair with a frequent comb to remove most dead lice. After this, rinse the head with an ordinary baby shampoo and treat the hair with a 2% solution of table vinegar. For best results, put a cellophane bag on the child's head and leave it for about 1.5 hours. Then carefully hand through each hair and remove the remaining nits from the roots. If, during this process, you suddenly find living lice, then you either violated the instruction, or this tool did not work.

Of folk remedies, in the fight against pediculosis, chinese water, cranberry juice, dust and tar soap are good and effective.

Prevention of lice in children

So, the main means of preventing pediculosis is simple compliance with personal hygiene measures: regular washing of the body and head, replacement of bed linen and clothes, washing at a temperature of 60 and above degrees and ironing with hot iron and steam.