Treating Head Nits and Lice

headlice January 19th, 2007

You should check your children frequently for head lice. You don’t have to spend a lot of time on it. I would rather find out sooner than later that my child has a lice problem. Catching it sooner will take hours off the amount of time it takes to get completely rid of it. A single female louse can lay up to 150 eggs, or nits, in a short amount of time.  The longer you leave lice in the head without treating them, the heavier the infestation you will have to deal with.

Nits are silvery-white in color and oval in shape.  To the naked eye, nits will appear as tiny grains of sand that seem cemented to the hair shaft. If you can flick it off with your nail it’s not lice, it’s probably dandruff or a protein deposit.   Nits on the one hand are easier to find then lice because there are more of them and they don’t move around.  However nits are much smaller then lice which makes finding them difficult also.

If every time you check your child you are finding more nits that means you still have live bugs! The infestation is getting worse! We recommend at this point you call in the professionals. Call LICENDERS: 1-888-LICENDERS

It is vital that you begin treating the problem as soon as you discover it.  Head Lice is a cycle, left untreated the bugs multiply and getting rid of it becomes more of a job.  It takes much less time and effort to get rid of a light case which was detected early. You should check your children frequently for head lice. 

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