Memo on pediculosis for parents

Head lice parasitize a person by feeding on his blood. Hazardous insect bites and scratching can cause a dangerous infection. Pests prevent a child from sleeping, make him scattered and nervous. Memo for parents on the prevention of head lice contains a lot of useful information that tells you how to cure and prevent an unpleasant disease.

Causes of pediculosis

The disease is especially common in children's groups. This is due to the fact that children are in close contact with other people and use other people's personal things. A little girl will normally exchange a comb, barrette or rim with a friend.

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The boys are sick pediculosis less often. This is due to the fact that their hair is much shorter and they less than girls exchange hair or headgear with each other.

Lice a child can pick up in several places:

• in child care facilities;
• entertainment centers;
• while swimming in the lake or rate.

Parents are afraid that a son or daughter may become infected with pediculosis from animals. But these fears are groundless. Louse lives only on man. She runs from a sick person to a healthy one. Insects migrate hardest during hot weather or physical activity of their host.

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Memo for pediculosis for students, which should give in school, must contain information about the causes of infection with lice. But it is necessary to speak about the disease not only within the school walls. Parents are required to explain to the child how lice are transmitted.

Pediculosis treatment

Lice medicine

The disease can not pass on their own. Parasitic head licewill increase their population, since breeding parasites swiftly. Louse bites provoke the occurrence of allergies, dermatitis, furunculosis. And that is not all, what is dangerous pediculosis. They carry a number of diseases, cause inattention of the child, the development of phobias.

A district pediatrician should prescribe a special remedy for the child. Most often for children are written following lice preparations:

• funds Paranit;
• aerosol lavinal;
• pediculen-ultra lotion;
• Pedilin shampoo.
• Nuda spray;
• Spray Pair Plus;
• cream nix;
• shampoo Veda;
• Hygia shampoo;
• Medifox.

They should be applied in accordance with the instructions and after consulting a doctor. After all, pharmaceutical remedies for lice are poisonous and, if used improperly, can cause a burn or rash.

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Means kill only living individuals. Nits attached to the hair shaft remain alive. After a week, the larvae will appear from them. Therefore, repeated processing may be required.

As an adjunct used comb against lice. The hairbrush allows you to remove dead insects and their eggs from the hair. Combing nits and lice repeat at least four times a day for two weeks.

Memo on pediculosis recommends to treat strands before combing acetic solution. The tool dissolves the substance by which the nits are attached to the head.

After the combing procedure, the comb should be washed with soap and rinsed with boiling water.

What to do if pediculosis is found in a child

Lice prevention

Parents should not hide the disease of the child. You must consult a doctor who will prescribe pediculosis treatment. The school nurse is obliged to examine the children in the classroom. If one child has headache, then several people in the team are infected with lice.

A reminder for the school about the causes of pediculosis, located in an educational institution, will help children learn about the disease. You can invite a doctor to explain to students how to reduce the risk of lice infestation.

Parents need to do the following:

1. Change bedding baby.
2. Inspect the hair of other family members.
3. To treat with an anti-pediculosis remedy soft toys and carpets.

Clothes and bedding of the offspring should be changed every day until he recovers.It is better to wash these things separately from others and use high temperatures to precisely kill insects and their nits.

If the bites are present on the body, then you should inspect the children's clothing. Cootie may settle in clothes and lay eggs in its seams.

With a strong infection with lice, the child's hair is recommended to cut short.

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Complete shaving of the hair will instantly save the child from parasites. A head louse cannot live where it has nothing to grasp.

Prevention of pediculosis

Lice is considered as a disease of people who neglect the rules of hygiene. But even a clean child is not immune from infection. Parasites do not care on what hair to live - dirty or clean. After all, their main food is blood.

Prevention of pediculosis in children is as follows:

1. Tell the children about the causes of lice.
2. Keep your child changing their underwear every day. Pass the iron on the seams on the clothes.
3. Inspect the hair once a week.
4. Protect your child from contact with infected people.

Parents need to make sure that their sons are short-haired and their daughters have a neat haircut.

In order to prevent disease, you can comb the hair with a special comb. It will remove the stray insects from the hair. Lavender oil applied to the skin behind the ears will scare off the parasites. Apply remedy for the prevention of lice should be before leaving the house.

Do not panic if the child is back from the camp or an educational institution with lice. Pharmaceutical preparations will quickly destroy insects. But we should not forget about the prevention of head lice. The disease can be prevented if you do not contact with infected people, do not use other people's things and do not give your comb or headdress to use.