Is it useful to wash your hair every day if you have lice?

It is very common to have lice on the head. Generally speaking, it is probably caused by not washing your hair frequently or by contact with other people with lice. If you want to get rid of lice on the head, in addition to washing your hair more often, you also need to pay attention to personal hygiene, take a bath frequently, change clothes frequently, maintain personal hygiene, and develop good living habits. It is best to take medication under the guidance of a doctor.

Lice that parasitize the human body belong to the class Insecta, order Pediculus, family Pediculus, genus Pediculus, including head lice and body lice, and genus Pediculus, including pubic lice. Head lice, body lice, and pubic lice are external parasites, and each has different appearances. It feeds on human blood, and its main parasitic sites are hair, clothing fibers and pubic hair. It can also parasitize on other body hair such as eyebrows and eyelashes.

In other words, if you have lice on your body for no special reason, it means that your personal hygiene is too poor. In the old society, living conditions were poor and it was common for people to have lice, but if you have lice now, it means you need to improve your hygiene habits.

Symptoms of lice: Head lice are found on the scalp, mostly on the occipital area and behind the ears. Lice are attached to the roots of the hair, and lice eggs (nits) are attached to the hair shaft. They can be removed by brushing along the hair shaft. It mostly occurs in children; body lice: found in the folds of underwear such as collars and waistbands. More common in winter; pubic lice are larger and easier to spot than head lice. It is mostly transmitted through sexual contact. The main symptom of all types of lice is itching.

So, what should you do if you have lice? What to do if you have lice?

Treatment of lice:

Shave the hair to give lice no place to attach. Lice have poor heat resistance, so you can boil and disinfect clothes to kill remaining lice and eggs. If you do not want to shave your hair, you can also use medicine to apply to your hair. 1. To remove lice: Use it for 5 days if you don’t shave your pubic hair, and use it for 3 days if you shave your pubic hair. It is the only product that can treat pubic lice and head lice without shaving your body hair. It can be cured in 3-5 days. It can be used by pregnant women and children without hurting the skin. 2. It includes 5%-50% Stemona tincture, a mixture of equal amounts of kerosene and vegetable oil, 2% coal soap solution and some insecticides. After using the medicine, the dead lice should be combed out in time and washed thoroughly.

Adult and nymph lice spend their entire lives sucking blood from the host. The main hosts are: terrestrial mammals, a few are marine mammals, and humans are also often parasitized. Lice not only suck blood and cause harm, but also make the host extremely itchy and uncomfortable, and can transmit many important human and animal diseases.

Relapsing fever is a worldwide disease spread by lice, the causative agent of which is a spirochete. The life span of lice is about six weeks. Each female louse lays about ten eggs a day, which are firmly attached to human hair or clothing. After about eight days, the little lice hatch and immediately bite people and suck blood. After about two or three weeks, it will grow into an adult through three moltings. Lice live a parasitic life throughout their lives. People can spread the virus to each other through contact. Relapsing fever is spread when a louse bites a person and the bitten area becomes very itchy. When a person scratches hard, the louse is burst and the pathogens in its body fluids are brought into the bitten wound through scratching, causing people to become sick. The best way to prevent and treat relapsing fever is to eliminate lice; if we take a bath regularly with hot water and soap, change clothes frequently, and pay attention to environmental hygiene, we will not get lice. If lice already exist, they can be killed with medicine. Clothes with lice can be boiled in boiling water. If there are lice in the hair, the hair should be shaved off. Because pubic lice are active and can survive independently for 3-5 days after leaving the human body, cross-infection between people should be avoided.