Pediculosis. Medical care for a child

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Pediculosis It's a lice infestation. Three types of lice can parasitize on the human body: head, clothes and pubic. Body lice and head lice are carriers of typhus and some types of fevers. The most common head louse, which usually lives on the scalp, mainly on the temples, nape, crown.

Lice feed on human blood. Parasitizing on his body, they go through three stages of development: egg (nit), larva and sexually mature louse. The egg has an elongated shape, yellowish-white in color, firmly glued to the hair due to the substance that the female secretes. The life span of an adult is 27-38 days. The female lays up to 4 eggs per day on her hair, and up to 160 in her entire life, so lice multiply very quickly.

Pediculosis is transmitted through direct contact from person to person (a louse covers a distance of 20 cm in a minute), as well as through clothes, underwear, hats, combs.

When to see a doctor

You can not go to the doctor at all if you quickly take measures to destroy the lice.

How to eradicate pediculosis

It is necessary to carry out disinsection of the child's head using any of the commercially available drugs for pediculosis: pediculin, pedicid, nittifor, nitilon, locodin, loncid, benzyl benzoate (20% suspension), karbofos (0,15% aqueous emulsion), etc.

Apply the selected preparation to the hair, tie the head with a plastic handkerchief and towel, hold for the appropriate time (read the instructions).

After that, wash your hair with running water with soap or shampoo and apply warm 5-10% table vinegar, tie your head with a plastic scarf and towel, soak for another 30 minutes.

Rinse your hair under running water, then comb out dead lice and nits with a thick comb.

Author: Basharova N.A.

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