Kids love to communicate with their peers. Summer - the most favorable time for this: camps, cottages, guest houses, holiday homes - anywhere your child can find friends. As a rule, do not interfere with the mother, and even encouraged. But not all new acquaintances can be helpful.
Close communication with peers may be the cause lice in children : A child from the camp not only bring a lot of impressions, but head lice.
Infection head lice or lice in children Unfortunately, not uncommon. At risk are not only children from disadvantaged families in which, for obvious reasons, did not observe basic rules of personal hygiene. The risk for all children at all. You can become infected:
- During a joint walk,
- Using comb patient
- Putting on his hat,
- On the train, when to sleep on a pillow, which previously lay sick lice.
Cases the importation of head Lice children of children's summer camps or schools. There are cases of infection in the sauna, swimming pool, solarium, and even when using a public toilet.
If the immune system is weakened, the probability of infection head lice in children increases. It may well be that in a family with several children, lice can become sick one, the most weak and sickly child.
Can the lice jump?
Head lice - are small wingless insects that are easily passed from person to person. They are inactive, reproduce by laying eggs, the nits (three pieces per day) and feed exclusively on human blood (2-4 times a day), drinking at a time to 0, 001 ml. Life expectancy lice - 24 days. They can not
jumping and jumping, and distributed only by direct contact with contaminated objects.
Unlike bugs (who do not live on the body) or pathogens scabies (dwelling under the skin), lice clearly visible at any time. Therefore, people have noticed in myself some insects, most likely found lice - and that human lice.
These different lice
Head lice They live on the scalp, where it's warm and there's food. Body lice are very similar to the head, live in the folds of clothing and bedding. Crablouse - A tiny (only 1-3 mm) yellow-gray parasite under the microscope is very similar to a small crab. It can be seen with the naked eye - a small grain of the hair at the base. Most often it settles in hairy areas of the skin around the genitals, but sometimes it can dwell and armpits, eyebrows and eyelashes.
The latter type of lice - pubic lice - usually occurs only in adults, although there may be exceptions, because they can be infected not only by sexual contact, but also, for example, to sleep in bed with an infected parent.
Louse-traveler
From the moment of infection until the first signs of the disease can take several weeks. After moving to a new host, the louse proboscis pierces the skin. Her salivary glands produce a special enzyme that digests the blood and at the same time does not allow it to clot.
Deferred eggs, nits, like white or whitish ovals, female strengthens the hair so that it is impossible to wash them with water. After some time of these eggs hatch new lice.
I must say that head lice quietly moved around the human body.
How to recognize and prevent head lice in children
The surest sign: itching of the skin due to its mechanical damage. Besides the saliva of the parasite - quite a strong allergen. The child begins to itch constantly, and on the site of the bite wounds, scratches appear.
Make it a rule once a week to inspect the scalp of your child, and if he's back from summer camp or kindergarten, it should be made mandatory, not relying on a full-time nurse.
If the child care during the medical examination found cases of head lice, treat the scalp of the child with special means for prevention. The same must be done if the lice have been found in some of the family members.
Lice treatment for children
Funds for Lice Treatment a large number of: various creams, sprays, ointments.
Lice Treatment It lasts about 10 days. But be careful: even if all the lice are killed, may remain nits, lice which will come back.
To avoid this, you need to carefully comb your hair and clothes and bed linen, towels, baby lice patient should be boiled and moist ironed hot iron.
Should treat all members of the family, however, things boil too, does not interfere. Medications appoint a local pediatrician.
Oksana Herasymenko
Healthy Child
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