Advice of Dr. Komarovsky on pediculosis
Komarovsky’s tips on treating head lice in children help identify the problem in time, find an effective remedy, get rid of pediculosis quickly. Many parents mistakenly believe that if you take good care of your child, no lice threatens. Danger of infection lice not so much depends on the lack of personal hygiene, as on the low immunity of the child. Absolutely all children are at risk.
Easy way to infect
Theme pediculosis It is not discussed mummies face to face, but is actively discussed on the forums on the Internet. This suggests that the problem exists, the danger lurks at every step, only try to keep quiet about all this. School Komarovsky explains how elementary lice are transmitted in public places between children.
Komarovsky gives a simple example. Head louse able to move at a speed of 35 cm per minute. For 1 school lesson lasting 45 minutes. the parasite examines the entire territory of the class. The answer to the question of where lice are taken from a person on the head becomes obvious.
Louse can lay low in a headdress, a hood outerwear. Once on the hanger with the clothes of other children, the parasite begins to travel. A child who has put on his coat, where the louse has hidden, receives an infection with head lice.
Important!
To infection did not happen, things must be hung correctly. Komarovsky suggests hiding a hat into a sleeve, turning out a coat, a jacket on the wrong side. A louse cannot move on a smooth surface. Attracts the edge of the hood, wool, rough fabric.
The second way - combs, hairpins.The fastest way to infect lice. The adult louse starts laying eggs within 30 minutes after a healthy person has fallen on the head.
What is dangerous lice
Dr. Komarovsky speaks of lice as an ordinary parasitic disease. The parasite feeds on human blood with enviable regularity - once every 2-3 hours. The process lasts about 40 minutes, but the minimum amount is drunk. Large blood loss is excluded.
Interesting!
On the human head can live from 10 to 20 individuals. The rest are forced to leave the former habitat - they move to another head, crawl on things, pillows. In the absence of power lice die outside the body within 2 days. Only the strongest survive.
What are dangerous liceso these are what they are carriers of disease. There is a disease that is transmitted exclusively by head lice - typhus. Eating human blood, the parasite does not transmit the infection. But, being crushed, the infectious blood of an insect falls into wounds on the scalp. This is a terrible disease infection.
How to prevent lice
Advice Komarovsky on pediculosis, its prevention,reduced to frequent inspections of the child. Once a month you need to check your head in a well-lit place using a magnifying glass. Pay special attention to the temples, back of the head, forehead. Nits are able to settle down at a distance of 1 to 5 cm from the hair roots. To understand how lice and nits look in hairworth seeing the photo.
On a note!
Lice are difficult to detect because they are extremely small - up to 4 mm, moving quickly, merging with blond hair to match. Need to pay attention to the eggs - nits. They remain on the hair even after the release of larvae to the light.
Prevention of lice is in compliance with sanitary and hygienic requirements, elementary rules of behavior in society and the team.
Pediculosis Therapy
Difficulty lice removal lies in their rapid reproduction, tight shell nits. No highly effective tool is able to penetrate to the larva lice in the egg. After the strongest insecticide attack, the parasites continue to fully develop.
Tips Komarovsky treatment of lice and nits:
- The mechanical method, which is to select parasites from the head, is ineffective for the reason that it is impossible to remove all nits. If at least 1 larva remains, the situation will repeat within 20 days.It is used only in case other means of lice are not available. Treat pediculosis will have much longer.
- A short haircut will not give a positive effect. If the fight is conducted by this method - you need to cut the hair completely.
- Destroy the lice, nymphs can be any special pharmacy pediculicide preparation: Pediatric Pediculosis shampoo, spray, ointment in 10 minutes. Such a statement makes Komarovsky. But the main task is destroy nits. They are removed from the hair by combing with a comb with fine teeth.
On a note!
To the process of combing nits was more effective, initially hair is moistened vinegarput on a plastic bag, leave for 20 minutes. Vinegar does not kill eggs, but destroys the sticky substance with which parasites are attached to the hair. After the procedure, rinse with warm water.
The doctor Komarovsky emphasizes that in all civilized countries, treatment of lice provides 2-3 treatments at intervals of 7 days. If after 1 treatment there remains a nit, after 7 days a nymph will come out of it. Reprocessing with a special shampoo will kill a living thing,without giving the opportunity to reproduce the new offspring. The efficiency of double treatment is 99%, three times - 100%.