How to Prevent Head Lice

Head lice is very common and no one is safe from the infested, regardless of hair type, color, sex, age, living conditions. In short, the best way to prevent head lice is to keep the hair from touching other people and lose your hair and the house for signs of lice.


Avoid direct contact and face-to-head. Common theory why children are more susceptible to head lice adults is that children are less likely to respect personal space. They also may be exposed to situations where contact and face-to-Prime is inevitable, such as class times nap or sit close together in their offices. It's as simple as touching the heads of two children while leaning over a coloring book. Try to leave space between you and the others in order to prevent the spread of head lice.
Contrary to popular belief, head lice do not jump. They actually crawl very fast from one president to another on a lock of hair. While it developed lice eggs on the hair shaft with a glue-like cement in.
We ask the children to do their best to avoid contact and face-to-head. This may mean avoiding games or activities that require them to have contact with the head of each other.


Do not share to touch his head. Lice can also travel to any items or surfaces that have come in contact with the head. Caps, sunglasses, scarves, combs and hair brushes, earphones, headphones, and even chairs can be websites that can Lice can not jump in and out of your head.
Even within families, it's good practice for each member of the family to have their own comb or brush.
In some cases, such as reservoirs and school clothes, hats, scarves and are often stored together in the open. Avoid exposing these elements either by keeping your belongings with you or store away in a bag or backpack.


Keep long hair tied in a ponytail, braid or bun. Long hair can sometimes reach beyond personal space some hair can grow well past the shoulders of someone or even since the fall and get a space of others. Remember tied hair prevents hair from touching the others.
Use hairspray to keep stray hairs in place.
Does not disclose hair ties, clamps or clips with others.



The use of tea tree oil or lavender oil on your scalp. This is a great way to prevent a natural remedy for head lice. These oils as insect repellent and keep head lice away. Use only a few drops on your scalp daily or dilute a few drops in the spray and spritz your hair in a bottle.
Tea tree oil can be very drying to use only as directed on the label.
It can also be tea tree oil can be used for the treatment and removal of head lice.

Regularly check for signs of head lice each week. It means preventing also be on the search for the possible outbreak of lice head. Caught early enough, including the time, you can disable the lice life cycle, which makes it faster and easier treatment. There are several ways to check for head lice that look like sesame seeds, caramel brown, gray and white, which often look like a brown colored dots:
Lather your hair in conditioner and comb through your hair with a comb remove head lice. Every few passes, wipe the comb out on a paper towel and search for points or brown-colored eggs or even the actual bugs. [1]
Lose scalp, especially where converge scalp hair shafts under the direct sun or bright light rays.
Get someone to check around your ear, nape and crown of your head for any signs of lice.
Lose your clothing for signs of lice.

Luggage store in plastic bags. And it can put things like hair brush, hats, scarves, sweaters in plastic bags when you go out in public places, especially if you are sending your children to school. This keeps the lice and plastic bags are easy to throw away before going home.
To be extra cautious, you can throw in your belongings in the refrigerator after returning home. Head lice can not survive in low temperatures. [2]

Clean your belongings when you get home. Use an antiseptic or soap to kill germs and prevent lice from crawling home. Wipe down your bag or backpack and throw the clothes they wore off in the washing machine.


Educate others about prevention of head lice. It's not only important to do your part in preventing head lice from invading your home and your family, but it is also important to educate others on how to prevent and treat head lice.
We urge your school or community to make the prevention of head lice and education available. It's also easy to make an announcement about what is head lice and how to prevent it or make flyers and direct others to resources or treatments that can be accessed.


Change and wash bedding and clothing each week. Wash bed linen and clothing in hot water that is at least 140 degrees F (60 ° C) and dried with heat as well. Effective heat to kill any lice and eggs fell out of your head. [3]
Take non-washables machine for dry cleaning. If you suspect you have been exposed to lice or nits, and let the dry-clean your know so they can take appropriate precautions when cleaning your clothes.

Regularly wash or change the combs and brush, hair ties. These items that come in contact with your head on a daily basis. It's best to clean them once in a while, or swap them for something new, especially hair ties.
Soak hair brush in the diluted bleach or close to boiling hot water for one hour. Be careful also may be some plastic brushes or materials that do not react well to whitening and heat.
Hair removal of hair brush regularly as well. This is also a good way to check to see if you can see any signs of lice or lice eggs.

Vacuum around the house regularly. Headboards, couches, chairs hot for lice to spread points. Be sure to use the vacuum that has a vacuum bag can be disposed of, which you can throw away, especially if you have been exposed to head lice.
And lice do not stay long or survive apart from the host because they need the blood supply to feed and live. There's no need to invest in a strong vacuum cleaner or spend a lot of time cleaning in order to prevent lice.

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Check to see if others in your area have lice. If you know your child or student has lice, it is important to check to see if it has been spreading your family or other students. Let your family or classroom know about the possible invasion of lice and urged them to get it checked.
If you find lice in your home, it is important to treat everything in your home to ensure that the lice do not injure others in your family. It should be cleaned up leaves and rooms of people not infected.
If you treat a child or student with lice, it is likely you will have come in contact with lice, too. Get yourself to make sure the lice before, during and after their treatment.

Wash all clothes worn in hot water. Remove all clothing worn by you or infested with head lice and wash all the clothes in the hottest water possible position.
If a garment can not be washed, isolate it in the garbage for several days to weeks to ensure all lice had died. Because there is nothing lice can feed on, and lice die at the end.

Application lice medicine. You can buy more than one prescription or medical lice medication at your local pharmacy, which can sometimes be a pesticide called nits recipe. Be careful to read and follow the instructions of the drug.
If you or whatever infected with lice have long hair, you may need more than one medicine bottle.
Do not use shampoo or conditioner or wash your hair for 1-2 days after using lice medicine.

Allowing the lice medication 8-12 hours of work. [5] If you can still see lice moving around in your hair, do not back down. It can take some time for the medicine to kill all the lice.
If you still see lice moving around after 12 hours, contact your health care professional. We can recommend that you do a second round of treatment or prescribe a different medication lice.


Comb your hair. Most of the drugs will come with a lice comb or you can buy a comb made specifically to check for lice. Because all the dead lice and you are not able to wash your hair in the next few days, it is important to comb the dead lice and eggs from the hair.
Flea combs for pets are a great alternative to lice combs.

Check and comb your hair regularly. Even if successful treatment, it is important for you to comb your hair with a comb lice every 2 to 3 days after treatment to protect yourself from reinfestation.